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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...

                     Alper Tolga Bulut**                                                                                        Fatma Akkan Güngör***     GİRİŞ   Siyasal liderler, önde gelen bürokratlar ve her iki gruba da tavsiyelerde...

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...

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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...

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...

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)...

Dr. Gamze Güngörmüş KONA   The main aim of this second part of the article is to present some future scenarios that Turkey might face following the application of four...