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Editor's Note | Spring 2019
Insight Turkey Spring 2019 / Volume 21, Number 2
Muhittin Ataman
This issue of Insight Turkey aims at analyzing the above mentioned issues and provide to its readers a general framework of the most important and...
The European Crisis and Turkey's Unpredictable Role in the Balkans
Ilya Roubanis
This paper discusses Turkey's role in the Balkans as part of the broader narrative of European integration. 'Europeanization' in the early 2000s...
Persuading through Culture, Values, and Ideas: The Case of Turkey's Cultural Diplomacy
Federico Donelli
Cultural diplomacy always links to and often overlaps with soft power and public diplomacy. Thus, the three notions have entered the lexicon of...
Economic Power and International Security
H. Sonmez Atesoglu
International security theories generally identify economic power as the key determinant of military power, and thereby of security, but there is...
Change and Continuity in Turkey's June 2018 Elections
Insight Turkey Fall 2018 / Volume 20, Number 4
Ali Çarkoğlu Kerem Yıldırım
In this paper, we first present a background to the watershed elections of 2018, describing the context preceding the elections. In order to...
Laying the Cornerstone for a New Turkey: The June 24 Elections
Insight Turkey Summer 2018 / Volume 20, Number 3
On June 24, 2018, with a participation rate of more than 85 percent, Turkey elected its President and parliamentarians. While determining Turkey's...
Turkey-EU Customs Union: Its Modernization and Potential for Turkey-EU Relations
Çiğdem Nas
The customs union is still one of the most concrete outcomes of Turkey's gradual integration to the EU. However, due to changes in world trade, EU...
Military Bases in the Foreign Policy of the United Arab Emirates
İsmail Numan Telci Tuba Öztürk Horoz
The United Arab Emirates is one of the leading countries in the Middle East in terms of active foreign policy. One of the most striking instruments...
The Gulf Crisis: The U.S. Factor
Marwan Kabalan
The election of the U.S. President Donald Trump played a key role in reigniting the Gulf crisis. The blockading quartet (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain...
The Regional Geo-sectarian Contest over the Gulf
Emad Y. Kaddorah
Sectarianism in the Middle East has intensified since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and the outbreak of the Arab Spring, and has transformed into...
Lessons and Legacies of the Blockade of Qatar
Kristian C. Ulrichsen
The diplomatic and economic blockade of Qatar launched on June 5, 2017 has gravely weakened the Gulf Cooperation Council and raised questions in...
Traditional Rivalry or Regional Design in the Middle East?
Burhanettin Duran Ufuk Ulutaş
The repercussions of the Arab Spring and new polarization between Iran, Israel and the Gulf States means the Middle East faces multiple rivalries...
PANEL | China's Role in Global Politics
After the publication of its special issue "Persistence Rise of China: Global Challenges and Regional Dynamics," Insight Turkey organizes a panel...
Diffusion in the Arab World: Turkey and Iran as Models of Emulation on the Eve of the 'Arab Spring'
Asad Ghanem Ibrahim Khatib
The literature about factors that promote growth and change presents models of diffusion that are based on societies' attempts to learn from the...
İhsan Dağı
On July 10, 2008, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan paid a historic visit to Baghdad following up the visit of Iraqi president Jelal...
Saltanatın Dervisleri, Dervislerin SaltanatI: istanbul'da Mevlevilik The Dervishes of Sovereignty
Insight Turkey Winter 2008 / Volume 10, Number 1
İbrahim Kalın
2007 was the 800th anniversary of the JaIalal al-Din al-Rumi.UNESCO designated 2007 as the Rurni year and a large number of activities were...
Turkish Perceptions of the West
Bekir Berat Özipek İbrahim Kalın Kudret Bülbül
This article, based on a book published by SETA, looks at the attitudes of Turkish people towards what is conceived as the West and Western...
Turkey's Foreign Policy Vision: An Assessment of 2007
Turkey's foreign policy needs a new orientation in the light of the new regional and global developments. As a major country in the midst of the...
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