Historical Revisionism and George W. Bush
Nick Kitchen Reading today Mark Tractenberg’s typically thorough piece on Preventative War and US Foreign Policy, (Security Studies 16. 1) I was struck by just how much scholarship there now is...
Afghanistan Civilian Deaths: US Military Un-Apologises
Scott Lucas l Jazeera’s headline this morning cleverly uses scare quotes: “US Military ‘Confirms’ Afghan Deaths”.The raised eyebrows over “confirm” are justified, however. While “a senior military official” told the press, in...
Turkey: Obama Connects With Turks, Promotes Turkish-Armenian Rapprochement
Yigal Schleife with a series of well-received speeches, events and high-level meetings, President Barack Obama’s state visit to Turkey appears to have achieved its main goal of laying a new...
Türkiye ve Irak İlişkileri: Güneş Operasyonu’ ndan Cumhurbaşkanı Abdullah Gül`ün Ziyaretine
Kadri Kaan Renda ankara`nın Irak politikasının iki temel parametresi Irak`ın bütünlüğünün korunması ve PKK ile mücadeledir.[1] Bu bağlamda Ankara 2003 yılından beri Irak`ın toprak bütünlüğünün korunması için uluslararası arenada sürekli...
The Axis of Upheaval
Niall Ferguson Forget Iran, Iraq, and North Korea—Bush’s “Axis of Evil.” As economic calamity meets political and social turmoil, the world’s worst problems may come from countries like Somalia,...
Political Warfare Old and New: The State and Private Groups in the Formation of the National Endowment for Democracy
Robert Pee On 8 June 1982, Ronald Reagan gave a speech to the British Parliament calling for a global crusade for democracy. The practical outcome of this...
Smart Power and US Leadership: A Critique of Joseph Nye
Paul Cammack Joseph Nye’s much reiterated insistence on the importance of ‘soft power’ is invariably deployed to support the argument that in the absence of a credible alternative...
The Past, Present, and Futures of Public Diplomacy and Political Warfare
Prof. Scott Lucas www.libertas.bham.ac.uk “Public diplomacy” has been a recurrent mantra in discussions of US foreign policy since 11 September 2001. Charlotte Beers, the advertising executive who was...
Turkey’s EU accession and democratization process
Dr. Murat Tümay* The European Union is undoubtedly one of the major success stories to emerge from a violent century that saw millions of Europeans lose their lives in...
Think-Tankler ve Dış Politika: Türkiye Ve ABD Örneği
Alper Tolga Bulut** Fatma Akkan Güngör*** GİRİŞ Siyasal liderler, önde gelen bürokratlar ve her iki gruba da tavsiyelerde...
System or Unit: Why do Dyadic Relations Differ?
Kadri Kaan Renda Most of the students of international relations are steeped in the debates on the concept of anarchy. Not only neorealist school builds its arguments on the...
Nabucco Pipeline Project
Duygu Uckun Traditionally energy markets are analyzed by using economic indicators, namely the supply and demand forces in the market. Increasingly the actors in the energy sector are becoming...
CESRAN-SARAM’ın hatırlattıkları
Özgür Tüfekçi Dünyada İngilizce’nin lingua-franca olarak kabul görmesinden dolayı bir çok kelime Türkçe’mize olduğu gibi aktarılmakta ve çok yaygın olarak kullanılmaktadır. Bunlardan bir tanesi de Think-tank kelimesidir ki; Türkçeleştirmektense...
Security Concerns of Turkey – Cold War And Post-Cold War Periods
Dr. Gamze Güngörmüş KONA Since the establishment of modern Turkish Republic, by a distinguished soldier and leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, in 1923, following a four-year War of Independence (1918-1922)...