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Why North Korea is not, and should not be regarded as, a ‘Failed State’

CESRAN Int.5 August 20177 August 2017

Thousands of miles away from the relative tranquility of the UN Security Council in New York lies a volatile and turbulent nation. A cause of constant international concern, it is...

Interviews

An Interview with Dr. Jean-Paul Gagnon On Democratic Theory and Politics

CESRAN Int.5 August 20177 August 2017

Dr. Jean-Paul Gagnon is a social and political philosopher specializing in democratic theory. In the light of recent developments around the world, I interviewed with Dr. Gagnon because of his...

Turkey and Neighbourhood

BAKU – “Baku’s Planning: for what and who?”

CESRAN Int.5 August 20177 August 2017

Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan, has been examined in this volume. Azerbaijan stands at the crossing point of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a resource-rich country and...

Middle East

Israel : The Risk of a New War with Arab Countries

CESRAN Int.5 August 20177 August 2017

On the 18th of August an attack launched by military commandos against buses in some Israeli towns north of Eilat in the Negev desert resulted in many victims, including some...

Turkey and Neighbourhood

Important Step has been Made in Supply and Transit of the Shah Deniz 2 Gas

CESRAN Int.5 August 20177 August 2017

Turkey’s government has been affected by the postponement of the signing of a supply and transit deal on the gas from Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz second stage project (SD2). Ankara and...

Russia and Eurasia

Putin’s ‘Eurasian Union’: Geopolitical Repositioning

CESRAN Int.5 August 20177 August 2017

On 24th of September 2011, during the United Russia congress in Moscow Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ended all the speculations on his candidacy for the Presidency of Russia. Putin...

Middle East

The Arab Spring and Calls for a Turkey-EU Foreign Policy Dialogue

CESRAN Int.5 August 20177 August 2017

The Arab Spring caught both Turkey and the European Union by surprise and led both actors to review their existing policies towards the Middle East and North Africa. It also...

Genel

The End of War? Global Citizenship and Changes to Conflict

CESRAN Int.5 August 20177 August 2017

This article is concerned with fleshing out a specific argument: that new, contemporary, global citizenship is possible grounds for the prevention of war as it was known in the 20th...

Turkey and Neighbourhood

Turkish – Armenian Rapprochement: Renewed Interest?

CESRAN Int.5 August 20177 August 2017

The international media has shown renewed interest in the revitalization of Turkish-Armenian relations, which has spawned a number of conferences and meetings. It comes as no surprise that during the...

Film Reviews

What is so Good About The Sopranos?

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

This review looks at what is quality television and what makes The Sopranos so successful. ―Quality Television‖ term has started to be used by critics and scholars after 1990s to...

China and Neighbourhood

The Missing Leader

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

Where is Jiang? As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was celebrating its 90th anniversary on July 1, 2011 one of the key things that fixated China Watchers was that former...

Interviews

Interview with Dr. Alexandros Nafpliotis

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

Many Greeks believe that the dichotomy between a Greek civil service, which is perceived as slow, well-paid and overstretched and on the other hand of a private sector, which carries...

China and Neighbourhood

Conflict in the “South China Sea‟

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

The dispute in the „South China Sea‟ is, as widely known, a multistate affair. Cook (2011), in an interview with Ian Storey, showed that tensions have been escalating in this...

Defense & Security Europe Russia and Eurasia

The Mistral Warship Deal: What’s in for France and Russia?

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

After two years of negotiations, Russia and France signed a treaty of military cooperation on June 17, 2011 under which two Mistral-class amphibious assault ships, together with their full technological...

Russia and Eurasia

“Waves” of the Russia’s Presidential Reforms Break About Premier’s “Energy-Rocks”

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

In late March of this year, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev demanded that high-ranking officials – namely, deputy prime ministers and cabinet-level ministers that co-ordinate state policy in the same sectors...