The Kings and I
Francis Fukuyama I don’t feel it is my job to give advice to anyone here, particularly the presidents who spoke before me, concerning the specifics of political and economic arrangements...
The Eradication of American proto-feminism: The re- conceptualizing of gender in the Indian Captivity Narrative
Matthew Tomiak Clear-cut gender roles as depicted in the early “Indian Captivity Narratives,” a genre that represented “arguably the first American literary form dominated by women’s experiences as captives,...
Nabucco’ya “Gaz Verenler”
Mazhar Yasin Tüylüoğlu Uluslararası İlişkiler ve Dünya Gündemi Analizleri'ni kurduğum günden beri ilk kez bir konu hakkında arka arkaya iki ayrı yazı yayınlamış olacağım fakat Nabucco, bundan daha fazlasını hak...
Baku Becomes a Question Mark for Nabucco Project
Jessica Powley Hayden The Nabucco pipeline project took a major step forward when five transit countries recently signed an agreement after years of hesitation. But at least one wild card...
‘Turkey should change bridge rhetoric’
Prof. Mustafa Aydın Turkey is not a bridge and I think we should forget using this rhetoric. We should drop this rhetoric from Turkish foreign policy. We are a kind...
The Sources of an Obama Doctrine
Nicholas Kitchen Three pieces I’ve read this week caught my attention: the first on Barack Obama’s response to being asked to describe the ‘Obama Doctrine’ in foreign policy; the second on...
The 2009 Failed States Index
It is a sobering time for the world’s most fragile countries—virulent economic crisis, countless natural disasters, and government collapse. This year, we delve deeper than ever into just...
Historical Revisionism and George W. Bush
Nick Kitchen Reading today Mark Tractenberg’s typically thorough piece on Preventative War and US Foreign Policy, (Security Studies 16. 1) I was struck by just how much scholarship there now is...
Afghanistan Civilian Deaths: US Military Un-Apologises
Scott Lucas l Jazeera’s headline this morning cleverly uses scare quotes: “US Military ‘Confirms’ Afghan Deaths”.The raised eyebrows over “confirm” are justified, however. While “a senior military official” told the press, in...
Turkey: Obama Connects With Turks, Promotes Turkish-Armenian Rapprochement
Yigal Schleife with a series of well-received speeches, events and high-level meetings, President Barack Obama’s state visit to Turkey appears to have achieved its main goal of laying a new...
Türkiye ve Irak İlişkileri: Güneş Operasyonu’ ndan Cumhurbaşkanı Abdullah Gül`ün Ziyaretine
Kadri Kaan Renda ankara`nın Irak politikasının iki temel parametresi Irak`ın bütünlüğünün korunması ve PKK ile mücadeledir.[1] Bu bağlamda Ankara 2003 yılından beri Irak`ın toprak bütünlüğünün korunması için uluslararası arenada sürekli...
The Axis of Upheaval
Niall Ferguson Forget Iran, Iraq, and North Korea—Bush’s “Axis of Evil.” As economic calamity meets political and social turmoil, the world’s worst problems may come from countries like Somalia,...
Political Warfare Old and New: The State and Private Groups in the Formation of the National Endowment for Democracy
Robert Pee On 8 June 1982, Ronald Reagan gave a speech to the British Parliament calling for a global crusade for democracy. The practical outcome of this...
Smart Power and US Leadership: A Critique of Joseph Nye
Paul Cammack Joseph Nye’s much reiterated insistence on the importance of ‘soft power’ is invariably deployed to support the argument that in the absence of a credible alternative...
The Past, Present, and Futures of Public Diplomacy and Political Warfare
Prof. Scott Lucas www.libertas.bham.ac.uk “Public diplomacy” has been a recurrent mantra in discussions of US foreign policy since 11 September 2001. Charlotte Beers, the advertising executive who was...