CESRAN Int.

By Alexander Christie-Miller | 17 July 2010 On the picturesque island of Buyukada in the Marmara Sea about an hour’s ferry ride from Istanbul, tourists climb a steep track through pine trees...

By Gregorio Bettiza | 05 July 2010 While conducting fieldwork in Washington DC this summer, I was struck by the many complaints about President Obama’s lack of interest in pursuing liberal values abroad. “Those working...

By Paul Hockenos | 02 July 2010 For decades, no one in Germany took much notice of the imported Islamic holy men in their midst. Turkey's Presidency of Religious Affairs sent imams...

By Walter Russell Mead | 23 June 2010 Most of the headlines that blare at us from newspaper pages and internet sites are noise.  Much of the breathless commentary that we get...

By Prof. Scott Lucas | 24 June 2010 And so another statement, accompanied by a picture of the two men warmly greeting each other, from Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi. The...

By Dr. Guy Burton | 18 June 2010 What role and impact do women have on politics and international affairs? Nearly a century ago, when suffragettes demanded the vote, a number of...

By James Traub | 16 June 2010 My son wants to study a non-European language that's going to matter in the future. He has been contemplating Arabic or Hindi. But after the...

By Prof. Scott Lucas | 14 June 2010 There has been a lot of media furour over the last 48 hours about a new report about the relationship between Pakistan’s Inter Services...

By Prof. Inderjeet Parmar** | 04 June 2010 Without trying to be ironic, President Barack Obama's administration issued a helpful factsheet alongside the NSS, released at the end of May 2010. In...

By Abdullah al- Ahsan** | 09 June 2010 More than a week has passed since Israeli armed forces butchered a number of peace activists in the Mediterranean who were carrying emergency supplies...

By James Traub | 09 June 2010 Let us now praise modest achievements. The U.N. review conference for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty concluded at the end of May with a 28-page document (pdf)...

By Prof. Ahmet Davutoglu | 01 June 2010 Preface   We, as members of CESRAN, attended the conference entitled “Turkey’s foreign policy in a changing world” held at the St Antony’s College...

By Cemil Cengiz | 01 June 2010 The leading political party of Turkey, AKP (Justice and Development Party) has launched a series of solutions to the problems concerning the Kurdish minority in...

By Soner Cagaptay | 12 March 2010   Last week's arrests in Turkey of dozens of high-ranking military officers mark the country's latest step toward authoritarianism. Neither Europe nor the United States...

Dr. Soner Cagaptay   25 February 2010   For the last several decades, the Turkish military was untouchable; no one dared to criticize the military or its top generals, lest they...