CESRAN Int.

Matthew Tomiak   Clear-cut gender roles as depicted in the early “Indian Captivity Narratives,” a genre that represented “arguably the first American literary form dominated by women’s experiences as captives,...

Mazhar Yasin Tüylüoğlu   Uluslararası İlişkiler ve Dünya Gündemi Analizleri'ni kurduğum günden beri ilk kez bir konu hakkında arka arkaya iki ayrı yazı yayınlamış olacağım fakat Nabucco, bundan daha fazlasını hak...

Jessica Powley Hayden   The Nabucco pipeline project took a major step forward when five transit countries recently signed an agreement after years of hesitation. But at least one wild card...

Prof. Mustafa Aydın   Turkey is not a bridge and I think we should forget using this rhetoric. We should drop this rhetoric from Turkish foreign policy. We are a kind...

Nicholas Kitchen   Three pieces I’ve read this week caught my attention: the first on Barack Obama’s response to being asked to describe the ‘Obama Doctrine’ in foreign policy; the second on...

    It is a sobering time for the world’s most fragile countries—virulent economic crisis, countless natural disasters, and government collapse. This year, we delve deeper than ever into just...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...