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Turkey: Ankara Wrestles with the Kurdish Issue

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

Yigal Schleifer After decades of conflict and repressive policies, Turkish leaders appear to be taking concrete steps toward resolving the Kurdish issue. But analysts warn that domestic opposition and the lack...

Defense & Security

Iran: America’s “Not-So-Smart Power” and the Nuclear Programme

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

Scott Lucas, Prof. Hillary Clinton’s address to the Council on Foreign Relations on Wednesday was awful. Sorry. I should be fair: if the speech was meant as a statement of US strategy,...

Defense & Security

Sovyet Sonrası Dönemde Ukrayna’daki Azınlıklar

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

Mazhar Yasin Tüylüoğlu Özet: Küreselleşmenin giderek yaygınlaştığı günümüzde, ulus-devletlerin varlığı konusu sürekli gündem oluşturmaktadır. Bu küreselleşme ve ulus-devlet ikileminde uluslararası aktörlerin çıkar çatışmaları büyük rol oynarken, Azınlık unsuru da arada...

Defense & Security

An Analysis of the Kurdistan Worker Party (PKK) with International and Domestic Dimension And Its reflection over Turkish-American Relations

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

It is widely believed that the attacks of September 11 were a turning point for international relations since it led countries worldwide to assess the threat of terrorism and generate...

Genel

CENTER FOR SECURITY STUDIES

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

CENTER FOR SECURITY STUDIES This center aims to bring together the academicians and thinkers in the field of Security Studies, which has emerged as a growing subfield of...

Politics

Beyond Blind Optimism

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

In Political Reflection Magazine, vol. 3, issue 3, Dr. Terry Tucker writes about the role social media played in the Arab Spring and the campaigns against SOPA/PIPA (Stop Online Piracy/Protect...

Politics

Twenty Years On: The Continuing Relevance of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

BY PROF. STEFAN WOLFF | JULY 2012 The mandate of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM), agreed by the participating states of the July 1992 Helsinki Summit of...

Politics

Global Leviathan Rising: The Emergence of a Transnational Demoi’s Corporeal Form

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

This argument is based on two specific works. The first is a review essay of Noam Chomsky’s monograph entitled Hopes and Prospects (2010, Chicago: Haymarket). Therein I began trying to explain a...

Politics

Social Media Lessons Learned for Political Engagement

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

In December of 2010 a man in Tunisia self-immolated in protest and what has followed has literally been explosive, as the lessons learned on the use of social media has...

Politics

Building a State or Maintaining the Occupation? International Support for Fayyad’s State-building Project

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

Since the peace process began after the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993, the international community has invested heavily in building Palestinian institutions and preparing for a future Palestinian state...

Politics

Intra-Community Dialogue: A Challenge to Racism and Faith Based Prejudice?

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

This paper arises from action research exploring the extent to which secular and religious peacebuilding may prove to be a resource for contemporary UK community cohesion. The research was centred...

Politics

Has Sovereignty Eroded?

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

From the historic continental United States of America to the savannah lands of Africa through the oil regions of the Middle East to the Asian and Russian peninsula, the European...

Politics

What is Wrong with Politics of the Irrepresentable?

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

It is a common belief in political essays and academic papers that politics have been trapped into a new circle of voting seeking. The well-founded political labels of left-wing and...

Politics

Anticapitalism and Occupation

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

At a recent panel discussion hosted by the Platypus Society at Harvard University, the moderator asked the participants whether Occupy Boston and related Occupations were ‘anticapitalist.’ BY THE CURRENT MOMENT | DECEMBER...

Politics

The Power of the Powerless: In Memory of Vaclav Havel

CESRAN Int.31 March 2014

Two men died this weekend. One was a towering literary and political figure, one of my heroes, a man who understood change and freedom and put his life on the...