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The 19th Issue of The Rest: Journal of Politics and Development is Out Now!

CESRAN Int.14 March 202014 March 2020

The 19th issue of the rest: journal of politics and development is out now. Download the issue here... TABLE OF CONTENTS Research Articles Turkish AK Parti’s Posture towards the 2003 War...

Book Reviews

Book Review: America in Afghanistan: Foreign Policy and Decision Making from Bush to Obama to Trump

CESRAN Int.14 March 202014 March 2020

Sharifullah Dorani America in Afghanistan: Foreign Policy and Decision Making from Bush to Obama to Trump (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2019, ISBN: 978-7845-3998-6, 317 pp., £85) As mostly...

Book Reviews

Book Review: Small Wars, Big Data

CESRAN Int.14 March 202014 March 2020

Eli Berman, Joseph H. Felter, and Jacob N. Shapiro Small Wars, Big Data (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018, ISBN: 978-0-691-17707-6, 386 pp., $ 29.95) In the intentions of...

Book Reviews

Book Review: A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy

CESRAN Int.14 March 202014 March 2020

Joel Mokyr (ed.) A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018, ISBN: 978-0-691-18096-0, 417 pp., $22.95) This book's primary aim is to...

Turkey and Neighbourhood

Intellectual Capital in Islamic Banking Sector: Evidence from Turkey

CESRAN Int.14 March 202014 March 2020

Hakan Uslu, PhD* * Lecturer at Adiyaman University & Area Editor of Applied Economics at CESRAN International, UK, [email protected], [email protected]. the rest | volume 10 | number 1 | winter...

Turkey and Neighbourhood

Rethinking Key Drivers of Turkey’s Immigration Policies in the Wake of the 2016 Turkey -European Union Immigration Deal

CESRAN Int.14 March 202014 March 2020

Israel Nyaburi Nyadera* & Billy Agwanda** * PhD student at Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, [email protected] ** Graduate student at Istanbul Commerce University. the rest | volume 10 | number 1...

Africa

Nigeria and the Great Powers: The Impacts of the Boko Haram Terrorism on Nigeria’s Foreign Relations

CESRAN Int.14 March 202014 March 2020

Sunday Omotuyi, PhD* & Modesola Vic. Omotuyi** * Lecturer at Obafemi Awolowo University, [email protected] ** Doctoral student at Obafemi Awolowo University. the rest | volume 10 | number 1 |...

Middle East

Turkish AK Parti’s Posture towards the 2003 War in Iraq – The Impact of Religion amid Security Concerns

CESRAN Int.14 March 202014 March 2020

Alberto Gasparetto, PhD* * The Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, University of Padua. [email protected] the rest | volume 10 | number 1 | winter 2020 ABSTRACT This...

CESRAN Blog Cesran News

CESRAN International Named again amongst the Top Think Tanks in the World

CESRAN Int.31 January 202014 March 2020

CESRAN International is pleased to announce that it has been named again amongst the world’s best think tanks. The 2019 Global Go To Think Tank Index ranked CESRAN International 141st...

Russia and Eurasia

Call for Papers – IEPAS2020

CESRAN Int.11 January 202014 March 2020

CESRAN International, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, and OBSERVARE invite panel and paper proposals, relating to all aspects of humanities and social sciences on wider Eurasia, for the 7th International Conference on Eurasian Politics & Society on 14th–15th May 2020 in...

Defense & Security Europe

Shall the Court Subject Counter-Terrorism Law to Judicial Review? National Security vs Human Rights

CESRAN Int.5 November 2019

Introduction ‘Terrorist emergencies justify extensive and far-reaching security measures that may legitimately restrict the enjoyment of the fundamental rights: to expect the [...] courts to adopt a restrictive approach to...

Middle East

The Era of Coercive Diplomacy in Iranian Nuclear Deal

CESRAN Int.5 November 2019

The Iranian nuclear programme started with the help of the US in the early 1960s-70s called “Atom for Peace program”. Iran, under the leadership of Shah, was a close US...

Defense & Security Middle East

International Solidarity and Burden-Sharing: The Case of Syrian Refugees

CESRAN Int.5 November 2019

Syrian Refugee Crisis The world is currently witnessing a period of unprecedented human movement, which represents one of the most significant problems worldwide in recent times. According to a report...

Politics

The Twilight Zone of Political Transition: Between Revolution and Democratic Change

CESRAN Int.5 November 20195 November 2019

O’Donnell, Schmitter and Whitehead define transition broadly as "the interval between one political regime and another" (O´Donnell, Schmitter, and Whitehead, 1986: 6). Plattner concludes that "they emphasise a particular path...

Defense & Security Russia and Eurasia

Rural Afghan Women as Agents for Change and the Failure of Liberal Peacebuilding

CESRAN Int.5 November 2019

This article will critique the liberal peacebuilding agenda and argue for an alternative, post-liberal approach to peacebuilding and conflict research by drawing upon James Scott’s theory of everyday resistance in...