Answers to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
Deng Xiaoping’s motto “keep cool-headed to observe, be composed to make reactions, stand firmly, hide our capabilities and bide our time, never try to take the lead, and be able...
Emerging Powers and their Influence On Global Governance: The Threatening Case of the BRICS
Introduction Emerging countries are gaining more importance in the international arena, inaugurating policies aimed at covering those roles that Western ones seem unable to deal with. In particular, the BRICS...
The Bureaucratic Politics Approach: Its Application, Its Limitations, and Its Strengths
This essay is composed of three sections. Section one reviews what the Bureaucratic Politics Approach is. Section two gives an explanation as to how the approach can be applied to...
Future of Religious Education under the New Executive Presidency in Turkey
The Republic of Turkey has always had a complex relationship with Islam. As Martin puts it, Islam has been 'simultaneously blamed as the source of backwardness and defeat, and lauded...
Raqqa vs Kobani – Terrorism vs Revolution
There is a thin stria between revolution and terrorism. If an uprising or a revolt results in a new social, political and economic order, it becomes a revolution superseding the...
Erdogan’s Best Shot is still in the West
Turkish-American relations have witnessed several crises since the beginning of their partnership under the Truman Doctrine. Washington’s reluctance to provide economic help to the Menderes government in the late 1950s,...
Terrorism in Syria and Beyond: An Interview with Prof. Alain Gabon
Dr. Alain Gabon is Associate Professor of French Studies in the Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Virginia Wesleyan University, Virginia Beach, USA. He has widely lectured and published...
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Vol. IV | No. V - October-November-December 2018 To Download the Magazine Click Here... CONTENTS 04-06.....World News by Furkan Sahin 08-20.....Terrorism in Syria and Beyond: An Interview with Prof. Alain Gabon by Dr....
Is the ‘ASEAN Way’ the Way to ASEAN Security?
Established in 1967, the effectiveness of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)1 as a regional security institution in addressing traditional security issues has been subject to continuing debate among...
Understanding Italy’s Migrant Rebuttal: Is It More than just Xenophobic Grievances or a Burgeoning Alt-Right Movement
Due to its geographical position, the Italian coast has consistently been considered the main arrival point for migrant boats fleeing violence and chaos from North Africa, resulting in an ‘unfair...
The Role of Public Opinion in Foreign Policy
The issue of public opinion and its influence in foreign policy has been a matter of dispute between scholars of different schools of thought. The theoretical and empirical disagreement centres...
The European Court of Human Rights and the Armed Conflict: The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh
The European Court of Human Rights, a Strasbourg-based international court established by the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) deals with individual cases. In accordance with Article 34...
The Proxy Warfare in Syria
It has been seven years since the beginning of the Syrian civil war. When the Arab uprisings spread throughout Syria, it was not thought that the peaceful protests would turn...
Changing Dynamics of Democracy
Democracy is now consıdered to be the best administrative system in the world. This is principally is because, with democratic regimes, there are systemic precautions to prevent rulers acting in...
BOOK REVIEW: The Politics of Evangelical Identity
To Download click here. How to Cite: CHRISTOFIS, N. (2018), ‘BOOK REVIEW: The Politics of Evangelical Identity: Local Churches and Partisan Divides in the United States and Canada’, Journal of Global Analysis,...