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Has Sovereignty Eroded?
From the historic continental United States of America to the savannah lands of Africa through the oil regions of the Middle East to the Asian and Russian peninsula...
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Security Policy in the European Union and the United States through the Issue of Their Defence Expenditures
Security policy is a very important factor of a nation’s strength...
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The USA: Challenges of the Superpower
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union among diversity of problems central for American Studies and International Relations scholars and experts are questions:...
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Hard Power in a Soft Package: The ‘True’ Conservatism of Obama Leadership in Foreign Policy
Analyzing President Obama’s foreign policy, or rather, analyzing the intellectual and positional evolution of his global positions is no easy task.
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Russian Government's "Selective" Anti-Corruption Campaign In The Energy Sector
By the end of 2011 Russian Prime-Minister V. Putin has begun campaign for fight against corruption in the Russian energy sector.
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A “WMD-Free” Middle East – Is A Disarmed Israel Even Desirable For The Region?
While the preparations for next year’s UN conference on a Middle East Nuclear & WMD Free Zone are underway, commentators are already...
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Cypriot Natural Gas and the Eastern Mediterranean: Between Crisis and Cooperation
Natural resources have long been the cause of both development and conflict. Of course, in resource-abundant countries natural...
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Azerbaijan and the Iran Crisis: Stuck in the Middle
The crisis between Iran and the Western powers continues to escalate. Sanctions, wargames, and the ‘covert war’ being conducted against the Iranian nuclear programme...
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Turkey’s Role in Somalia: A New Ally?
For two decades, Somalia has been plagued by continuous warfare, recurrent humanitarian disasters, terrorism, and statelessness. The international community, for its discredit, has been reconfiguring Somalia’s solution for the last... Read more
by ABDIHAKIM AYNTE
Ankara Moves Closer to Washington: How the Arab Spring Warmed…
U.S.-Turkish relations entered into a tumultuous period with the Iraq War in 2003. This difficult phase in bilateral ties appears to have ended with the…
Contributing Factors to Less than Equitable Social and Economic Development…
Whilst Turkey’s economy is growing at near equal pace with China’s, its eastern half is still not yet reaping the benefits of a prosperous economy…
Can Turkey Really Be a Political Model for Its Region?
From the outset of the ‘Arab Spring’, Turkey has pursued an active foreign policy and supported a number of recent popular uprisings throughout…
Turkish-Armenian Rapprochement: Renewed Interest?
In Armenia, the January 12 2010 session of the Constitutional Court emphasized that Armenia will continue its effort to achieve international recognition of the 1915…
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Debate: Agni Makes China Insecure-1
Antony Ou (China Representative of CESRAN) speaks on Live Broadcast of The Times of India - The Newshour. In a debate moderated by TIMES NOW's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, panelists -- Antony... Read more
by ANTONY OU
The Impact of Renminbi (Rmb) Appreciation on The Hong Kong…
In this article, I will point out and discuss the effect of the reform of exchange rate institution on the real estate market, and the…
The Cosmopolitanisation of Cartography Raising The Specter of Legitimacy in…
This work is about arguing that the maps of the world should be reconsidered in a global dialogue: in a process that opens the dispute…
Return to Countryside: a New Attempt of Rural Financial Transformation
In July 2009, the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) issued a three-year plan on the development of New Rural Financial Institutions. The plan proposed to…
Asia's New Great Game? - The Geopolitics of the South…
The power struggle between the British Empire and Russian Empire for influence in Central Asia during the 19th century was afterwards coined as the Great…
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Culture, Religion, EU-Turkey and Cyprus: Dilemma
He says, “Civilization represents the crystallization on a gigantic scale of the preceding culture’s deepest and greatest thoughts and style. Civilization aims at the gradual standardization of increasingly large masses of men within a rigidly... Read more
By RET. AMB. YALIM ERALP | Apr 2012
From “Dublin to Baku”: Future Scenarios on…
The Black Sea is now in part an internal sea of the EU. What is remarkable about the Black Sea region at present is that despite the numerous territorial disputes and historical mutual distrust, despite... Read more
By ZAUR SHIRIYEV | Apr 2012
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Global City Analysis
BEIJING: Humanistic City
Beijing is located at the north of China. With its 19 million population, it is the second largest city of the country. Beijing is one of the four cities which the national government (Communist Party...
By FATİH EREN | Apr 2012
BAKU “Baku’s Planning: for what and who?”
Azerbaijan stands at the crossing point of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a resource-rich country and it is located on very important energy and transportation corridors; so Azerbaijan is one of the most...
By FATİH EREN | Dec 2011
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Film Review
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
The co-authors of the script were partly inspired by a true story. In an interview conducted with the director, Ceylan said that one of the co-writers had worked as a doctor in the town where the movie took place. So, the story benefited a lot from the doctor’s memoirs concerning...
By ALAADDİN F. PAKSOY | Apr 2012
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An Interview with Dr Nicholas Osbaldiston (Monash University)
Jean-Paul Gagnon: What is ‘seachange’ and where in the world is this happening? Nicholas Osbaldiston: This is an important question and one that deserves teasing out. For one, the phenomenon of seachange involves a type of urban and suburban escapism. In particular, it’s the movement of people, across a number of countries in mainly the developed world, who have become disaffected with the environment they live in within the confines of the metropolis into regions traditionally...
By DR. JEAN-PAUL GAGNON | Apr 2012