2015 – Page 2 – CESRAN International

CESRAN Reflections on Turkey’s June 7 Parliamentary Elections by Dr. Rahman Dağ

CESRAN Int.27 June 201527 June 2015

From 2002 onwards, the AK party won a majority in every Turkish election. Erdoğan always won comfortably, whether in national elections, local votes, or the more recent presidential one. However,...

CESRAN Blog International Economics

Economic Development Models and Capitalism

CESRAN Int.8 June 20158 June 2015

The question of "Development Models" In the post-Communist era now more than two decades old, many people around the world are questioning what is the best economic development model? One...

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21st Century Challenges to American Democracy: Part 3

CESRAN Int.6 May 20156 May 2015

“Consumption Democracy” Consumption values are at the core of contemporary American culture. The mass media, businesses and politicians equate such values with freedom and democracy. The social contract as the...

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21st Century Challenges to American Democracy: Part 2

CESRAN Int.6 May 20156 May 2015

Rising Public Debt, Dwindling Democracy. Conservatives attribute the rising public debt to government spending on costly entitlement and social programs. They conclude that deficit financing for entitlement and social programs...

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21st Century Challenges to American Democracy: Part 1

CESRAN Int.6 May 20156 May 2015

Abstract: It requires several hundred pages to address the complex subject of challenges to American democracy in the post-Cold War era of a global multi-polar economic and political power structure....

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Argentina: A Case Study of Israel’s Zionist-Wall Street Destabilization Campaign

CESRAN Int.5 May 20155 May 2015

Introduction A recent article by Jorge Elbaum, the former executive director of DAIA (Delegation for Argentine Jewish Associations), the principle Argentine Jewish umbrella groups, published in the Buenos Aires daily...

CESRAN Blog Middle East

Saudi’s Stance on Mediation Undermines Muslim institutions

CESRAN Int.5 May 20155 May 2015

The conflict in Yemen is a multi-sided civil war rather than a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, and that needs to be recognised before mediation can be made...

CESRAN Blog Russia and Eurasia

Russian Foreign Policy under Dmitry Medvedev’s Presidency (2008-2012)

CESRAN Int.29 April 20154 May 2015

Summary Putin’s Russia (2000-2008) not only established internal stability, following the difficult and painful transition of the 1990’s onwards, but recovered economically, bolstered by a rapid increase in revenues from...

CESRAN Blog Energy & Environment

So the Oceans are Worth $24 Trillion U.S.

CESRAN Int.26 April 201524 July 2015

It is good to know that we humans have done our audit and determined what the oceans are worth. The chief architect putting a price tag to 70% of the...

CESRAN Blog Russia and Eurasia

Nazarbaev Heads For A New Term In Kazakh Vote

CESRAN Int.26 April 201526 April 2015

Voters in Kazakhstan are voting in a ballot that is expected to result in the reelection of President Nursultan Nazarbaev. With authorities clamping down on opposition and keeping tight control over...

Africa

At War against Itself: Religious Identity, Militancy and Growing Insecurity in Northern Nigeria

CESRAN Int.2 April 20152 April 2015

JCTS (Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security) | Vol. 4 | No. 1-2 | April-October 2014 Abstract This paper critically examines the uneasy nexus between religious identity and spiralling violence...

CESRAN Blog

The Concept and Practice of ‘Nation Branding’

CESRAN Int.18 March 201518 March 2015

The branding of nations has become an important aspect of cultural and national representation in contemporary times. Countries are eager to attract tourists, students, and workers, stimulate inward investment, and...

International Economics

Leadership and Economic Integration: the case of the Cameroon-Gabon couple

CESRAN Int.9 March 20159 March 2015

JCTS | Vol. 4 | No. 1-2 | April-October 2014 Abstract Sub-regional economic integration offers benefits to members, including new trade opportunities, larger markets, an increase in bargaining power and...

CESRAN Blog Defense & Security Russia and Eurasia

Islamic State, Afghanistan and Pakistan!!

CESRAN Int.25 February 201527 February 2015

The Baqiya wa Tatamaddad (remaining and expanding) strategic motivations of the Islamic State have created a commotion that needs to be examined objectively, particularly reports related to the terror organization’s recruitment...

Defense & Security Turkey and Neighbourhood

Gendered (In)Securities: Refugee Camps in Southeastern Turkey

CESRAN Int.24 February 201524 February 2015

By Dr. Selin Akyüz* and Dr. Bezen Balamir Coşkun** Abstract Academic literature on security and securitization has been criticized for neglecting the significance of gender as a dimension of security....