Turkey’s Clash of Civilizations
By Dr. Soner Cagaptay | 08 June 2010 Ever since the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) assumed power in 2002, Turkish foreign policy has made a 180-degree turn. The country's once-strong...
Turkey’s New Political Balance: Old AKP and New Kemalism
By Dr. Soner Cagaptay | 20 May 2010 Turkey's protracted political battle between the governing Justice and Development Party, or AKP, and its opponents reached a crescendo this month with the...
But parliamentary ratification of the deal has stalled in both countries
But parliamentary ratification of the deal has stalled in both countries over the contentious issue of World War I-era killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey, which Yerevan insists constituted genocide...
Introduction
This paper argues that Turkey’s experience with economic crisis in 2001 demonstrates the effects of the investment model of economic development interacting simultaneously with the liquidity model. Investment model focuses on pull...
TURKEY FOCUS
TURKEY FOCUS Turkey Focus section has been launched to update researchers who have interests in Turkey and its neighbourhood by CESRAN. In this section, you can find updated information and...
Democracy Programme
The CESRAN Research Programme for Studies in Democracy is primarily concerned with policy briefings. Researchers, practitioners and students of democracy are heartily encouraged to submit commentary between 800 and 3000...
Centre for Urban Studies (CUS)
We are now in an era in which nation-state boundaries are disappearing and socio-cultural and economic interactions between human beings are increasing rapidly. This is such an era that a...
Competitive Regulation: Stepping Outside the Public/Private Policy Debate
BY DR. JEAN-PAULL GAGNON** | 17.08.2011 The central aim of this work is to try and detail the argument that governmental regulation can move beyond the public versus private policy...
Governance Programme
CESRAN aims to identify the institutional requirements for effective multilateral cooperation in the twenty-first century. This research unit is motivated by the spread of transnational challenges, the rise of new...
The Gangs of Bougainville: Seven Men, Guns and a Copper Mine
It will be difficult to dispute that the international media determines which conflicts the world follows. Certain armed conflicts (mainly those which involve US or European interests), in the opinion...
Buddhism and Conflict Transformation: Philosophical and Conceptual Expansion Of The Nature Of Human
Since the1990’s peace research has witnessed the rise of conflict transformation as one of its key ideas. This paper explores how Buddhism can contribute to conflict transformation by examining how...
Terrorism as Genocide: Killing with “Intent”
Political violence is a broad term that encompasses different types of political action. Political violence can include intra-state or inter-state actions. Flanigan and Fogelman described domestic political violence as coups,...
Terrorism as Genocide: Killing with “Intent”
Political violence can include intra-state or inter-state actions. Flanigan and Fogelman described domestic political violence as coups, rebellions, civil wars, political assassinations, major rioting, etc. However, political violence also encompasses...
America’s Global Terrorism against Peace
BY GHALI HASSAN | AUGUST 29, 2012 Terrorism is the “calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to attain goals that are political, religious, or ideological...
Tactical Rape as a Threat to International Security: A Norm Develops
Rape in war has long been a reality. In 1992, after visiting refugee camps and women’s groups in and around Zagreb, a team from international aid agencies reported that women...