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BÜŞRA BAYRAMOĞLU

March 24, 2020. America and the Making of Modern Turkey: Science, Culture and Political Alliances, explores the activities of American philanthropic organizations in Turkey, such as the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations. This book provides readers U.S. POLICY TOWARD THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT UNDER U I TOW T IITII IT T T IITATI TIIT 2020 Wınter 129 istrations carried on the same hostile policy toward the PLO by ceasing contact and closing its offices in an attempt to wipe out the organization.4 Nonethe- less, the Palestinian Intifada and the change in the PLO’s

diplomatic stance

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Muhittin Ataman.

THE LOGIC BEYOND LAUSANNE: A GEOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON A year and half after Turkey opened its Qatar base, then Turkish army Chief of Staff and current Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar officially opened Turkey’s military facility in Mogadishu, Somalia on September 30, 2017. 9 Turkey’s $50 million, four square km Mogadishu base is its largest training facility outside Anatolia, expected to train 10,000 Somali troops. 10 The Turkish military TRUMP’S COUP AND INSURRECTION: BIDEN’S CHALLENGE AND Introduction President Donald Trump’s attempted coup and insurrection’s political effects are set to continue in the future because the enabling conditions have deep historical roots, its support reaches far into the U.S. state, broad sections of the Republican Party (sometimes referred to as the GOP or Grand Old Party) and electorate, military, and law enforcement. That it was a coup THE LOGIC BEYOND LAUSANNE: A GEOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON T I Y AS ITI STI T T TY’S ITS STATI ITATI 2020 Summer 41 COMMENTARY The Logic Beyond Lausanne: A Geopolitical Perspective on the Congruence between Turkey’s ISSUES | A NEW SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA? THE ROLE OF GREAT AND With the dawn of the 21st century and the reality of strategic rivalry between the United States and China, coupled with the global involvement of middle and emerging powers in particular Russia, Japan, Turkey, Iran, and India many issues are coming to the fore. Africa is now experiencing a new “scramble” for its strategic minerals, the CHINA, OIL, AND AFRICA: A NEW PERSPECTIVE, COMMENTARIES China, Oil, and Africa: A New Perspective. This commentary provides insights into the evolving trajectories of China-Africa relations by drawing on a case study of the place of a strategic natural resource, oil, in the evolving relations. It unpacks the nature of China’s engagements with Africa’s oil-producing states and challenges the OSCE MINSK GROUP: PROPOSALS AND FAILURE, THE VIEW FROMSEE MORE ON

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BÜŞRA BAYRAMOĞLU

March 24, 2020. America and the Making of Modern Turkey: Science, Culture and Political Alliances, explores the activities of American philanthropic organizations in Turkey, such as the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations. This book provides readers U.S. POLICY TOWARD THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT UNDER U I TOW T IITII IT T T IITATI TIIT 2020 Wınter 129 istrations carried on the same hostile policy toward the PLO by ceasing contact and closing its offices in an attempt to wipe out the organization.4 Nonethe- less, the Palestinian Intifada and the change in the PLO’s

diplomatic stance

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Muhittin Ataman.

THE LOGIC BEYOND LAUSANNE: A GEOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON A year and half after Turkey opened its Qatar base, then Turkish army Chief of Staff and current Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar officially opened Turkey’s military facility in Mogadishu, Somalia on September 30, 2017. 9 Turkey’s $50 million, four square km Mogadishu base is its largest training facility outside Anatolia, expected to train 10,000 Somali troops. 10 The Turkish military TRUMP’S COUP AND INSURRECTION: BIDEN’S CHALLENGE AND Introduction President Donald Trump’s attempted coup and insurrection’s political effects are set to continue in the future because the enabling conditions have deep historical roots, its support reaches far into the U.S. state, broad sections of the Republican Party (sometimes referred to as the GOP or Grand Old Party) and electorate, military, and law enforcement. That it was a coup THE LOGIC BEYOND LAUSANNE: A GEOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON T I Y AS ITI STI T T TY’S ITS STATI ITATI 2020 Summer 41 COMMENTARY The Logic Beyond Lausanne: A Geopolitical Perspective on the Congruence between Turkey’s ISSUES | A NEW SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA? THE ROLE OF GREAT AND With the dawn of the 21st century and the reality of strategic rivalry between the United States and China, coupled with the global involvement of middle and emerging powers in particular Russia, Japan, Turkey, Iran, and India many issues are coming to the fore. Africa is now experiencing a new “scramble” for its strategic minerals, the CHINA, OIL, AND AFRICA: A NEW PERSPECTIVE, COMMENTARIES China, Oil, and Africa: A New Perspective. This commentary provides insights into the evolving trajectories of China-Africa relations by drawing on a case study of the place of a strategic natural resource, oil, in the evolving relations. It unpacks the nature of China’s engagements with Africa’s oil-producing states and challenges the OSCE MINSK GROUP: PROPOSALS AND FAILURE, THE VIEW FROMSEE MORE ON

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ISSUES | NEW GEOPOLITICS IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN With that said, we are confident that this issue of Insight Turkey entitled “New Geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean” will provide timely studies regarding the Turkish perspective on a complex and increasingly important issue in the global power struggle. -

Muhittin Ataman.

TRUMP’S COUP AND INSURRECTION: BIDEN’S CHALLENGE AND Introduction President Donald Trump’s attempted coup and insurrection’s political effects are set to continue in the future because the enabling conditions have deep historical roots, its support reaches far into the U.S. state, broad sections of the Republican Party (sometimes referred to as the GOP or Grand Old Party) and electorate, military, and law enforcement. That it was a coup TURKEY’S KURDISH CONFLICT: PATHWAYS TO PROGRESS, ARTICLES The “Classic Approach” to the Kurdish Question: Old Limitations and New Signs of Change. The Turkish state’s “classic approach” to the Kurdish Question has historically been one of military intervention, resulting in serious human rights abuses, violent conduct and killings, and leading to an ongoing conflict between the state and the PKK. 3 Since the 1920s, the political and social TURKEY’S TRANSITION TO AN IMMIGRATION COUNTRY: A PARADIGM A small proportion of these flows represent emigrants from and immigrants to Turkey. According to the World Bank, net immigration – the balance between emigration and immigration - between 2009 and 2013 was +350,000 and up from -50,000 in 2007. 12 This suggests that on average 70,000 more people per year immigrated than emigrated. For instance, in 2010, net immigration was U.S. POLICY TOWARD THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT UNDER An Overview of U.S. Foreign Policy Toward the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict If there is one common policy that all U.S. administrations

share, it is the

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Studies on the Europeans who lived in the Ottoman Empire have been mostly conducted through the Ottoman and European state archives. Few works on the social history are based on private papers, such as Beshara Doumani’s work, Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995).

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Questions about Islam’s compatibility with democracy, its relationship with terrorism and the lack of good governance in Muslim countries have dominated academic discourse for a long time and Muslim scholars, who are generally defensive in these discussions, have TURKEY’S FOREIGN POLICY VISION: AN ASSESSMENT OF 2007 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 Afro-Eurasia landmass, Turkey is a central country with multiple regional identities that cannot be reduced to one, unified category. INSIGHT TURKEYISSUESEDITOR'S NOTESCOMMENTARIESARTICLESREVIEWSEVENTS Articles. Turkey’s Legal Approach to Maritime Boundary Delimitation in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. For more than a decade, the states bordering the Eastern Mediterranean Sea have been in disagreement over the delineation of their maritime boundaries. U.S. POLICY TOWARD THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT UNDER U I TOW T IITII IT T T IITATI TIIT 2020 Wınter 129 istrations carried on the same hostile policy toward the PLO by ceasing contact and closing its offices in an attempt to wipe out the organization.4 Nonethe- less, the Palestinian Intifada and the change in the PLO’s

diplomatic stance

TURKEY’S TRANSITION TO AN IMMIGRATION COUNTRY: A PARADIGM A small proportion of these flows represent emigrants from and immigrants to Turkey. According to the World Bank, net immigration – the balance between emigration and immigration - between 2009 and 2013 was +350,000 and up from -50,000 in 2007. 12 This suggests that on average 70,000 more people per year immigrated than emigrated. For instance, in 2010, net immigration was THE LOGIC BEYOND LAUSANNE: A GEOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON A year and half after Turkey opened its Qatar base, then Turkish army Chief of Staff and current Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar officially opened Turkey’s military facility in Mogadishu, Somalia on September 30, 2017. 9 Turkey’s $50 million, four square km Mogadishu base is its largest training facility outside Anatolia, expected to train 10,000 Somali troops. 10 The Turkish military ISSUES | A NEW SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA? THE ROLE OF GREAT AND Africa has often been the focus of contradictory attention that has oscillated between the labels of a physical obstacle to travel between Europe and the East, a geostrategic continent, a collection of failed or failing states, to now a geo-economically important continent with potentially viable markets because of its many and rapidly growing economies endowed with strategic minerals. EU-TURKEY RELATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE MIDDLE EAST This paper discusses EU-Turkey relations with a specific reference to regional developments in the Middle East after the Arab Spring. In the last decade, the Turkish government has tried to intensify Turkey’s influence in the region. YÜCEL BOZDAĞLIOĞLU Despite its unique geographical and cultural position between East and the West, Turkey, throughout its modern history, has followed a Western-oriented foreign policy. DEMOCRATIC UPRISINGS IN THE NEW MIDDLE EAST: YOUTH Mahmood Monshipouri’s Democratic Uprisings in the New Middle East: Youth, Technology, Human Rights and Foreign Policy fills the gap by providing a substantial analysis of the “extraordinary events of the 2011 Arab revolts and beyond. 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 Afro-Eurasia landmass, Turkey is a central country with multiple regional identities that cannot be reduced to one, unified

category.

MILITARIZATION AND SECURITIZATION IN AFRICA: THE ROLE OF 2019 Wınter 79 IITIATIO D ITIATIO I I: T O O IO-AI OTATI threaten the economic interests of the great powers. It is the deliberate policy of ensuring that African INSIGHT TURKEYISSUESEDITOR'S NOTESCOMMENTARIESARTICLESREVIEWSEVENTS Articles. Turkey’s Legal Approach to Maritime Boundary Delimitation in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. For more than a decade, the states bordering the Eastern Mediterranean Sea have been in disagreement over the delineation of their maritime boundaries. U.S. POLICY TOWARD THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT UNDER U I TOW T IITII IT T T IITATI TIIT 2020 Wınter 129 istrations carried on the same hostile policy toward the PLO by ceasing contact and closing its offices in an attempt to wipe out the organization.4 Nonethe- less, the Palestinian Intifada and the change in the PLO’s

diplomatic stance

TURKEY’S TRANSITION TO AN IMMIGRATION COUNTRY: A PARADIGM A small proportion of these flows represent emigrants from and immigrants to Turkey. According to the World Bank, net immigration – the balance between emigration and immigration - between 2009 and 2013 was +350,000 and up from -50,000 in 2007. 12 This suggests that on average 70,000 more people per year immigrated than emigrated. For instance, in 2010, net immigration was THE LOGIC BEYOND LAUSANNE: A GEOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON A year and half after Turkey opened its Qatar base, then Turkish army Chief of Staff and current Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar officially opened Turkey’s military facility in Mogadishu, Somalia on September 30, 2017. 9 Turkey’s $50 million, four square km Mogadishu base is its largest training facility outside Anatolia, expected to train 10,000 Somali troops. 10 The Turkish military ISSUES | A NEW SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA? THE ROLE OF GREAT AND Africa has often been the focus of contradictory attention that has oscillated between the labels of a physical obstacle to travel between Europe and the East, a geostrategic continent, a collection of failed or failing states, to now a geo-economically important continent with potentially viable markets because of its many and rapidly growing economies endowed with strategic minerals. EU-TURKEY RELATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE MIDDLE EAST This paper discusses EU-Turkey relations with a specific reference to regional developments in the Middle East after the Arab Spring. In the last decade, the Turkish government has tried to intensify Turkey’s influence in the region. YÜCEL BOZDAĞLIOĞLU Despite its unique geographical and cultural position between East and the West, Turkey, throughout its modern history, has followed a Western-oriented foreign policy. DEMOCRATIC UPRISINGS IN THE NEW MIDDLE EAST: YOUTH Mahmood Monshipouri’s Democratic Uprisings in the New Middle East: Youth, Technology, Human Rights and Foreign Policy fills the gap by providing a substantial analysis of the “extraordinary events of the 2011 Arab revolts and beyond. 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 Afro-Eurasia landmass, Turkey is a central country with multiple regional identities that cannot be reduced to one, unified

category.

MILITARIZATION AND SECURITIZATION IN AFRICA: THE ROLE OF 2019 Wınter 79 IITIATIO D ITIATIO I I: T O O IO-AI OTATI threaten the economic interests of the great powers. It is the deliberate policy of ensuring that African TURKEY’S MANAGEMENT OF COVID-19: MEASURES AND STRATEGIES In the management of the COVID-19 pandemic, policies in accordance with the principles of risk and crisis management were developed by considering the emerging conditions in almost all aspects of life, including healthcare, travel, education, economy, tourism, security, international relations and solidarity, agriculture, production, free circulation, logistics and transportation. THE LOGIC BEYOND LAUSANNE: A GEOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON T I Y AS ITI STI T T TY’S ITS STATI ITATI 2020 Summer 41 COMMENTARY The Logic Beyond Lausanne: A Geopolitical Perspective on the Congruence between Turkey’s U.S. POLICY TOWARD THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT UNDER An Overview of U.S. Foreign Policy Toward the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict If there is one common policy that all U.S. administrations

share, it is the

BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: HOW TO MAKE SENSE OF With the wrap-up of the S-400 deal with Russia in December 2017, critics argue that Turkey is caught between a rock and a hard place due to the adamant opposition of its NATO allies, the United States in particular, which has threatened Ankara with imposing severe

sanctions.

THE ALEVI OPENING: CONCEPT, STRATEGY AND PROCESS, ARTICLES The Justice and Development Party (The AK Party) government has been taking noteworthy steps in order to open the necessary channels for an honest and sincere exchange with the Alevi community as part of its democratic opening initiative. ISSUES | TURKEY'S FOREIGN POLICY: REFORM OR RESET We are now witnessing a harvest of new history books on the making of the modern Middle East. Five are chosen for a critical review below. They are works by experts, well-researched and highly readable and infinitely more objective than the over-supply of Eurocentric or Orientalist books of the past. RE-EXAMINING THE “BASE”: THE POLITICAL AND SECURITY That Turkish military personnel have been deployed to conduct an overseas training mission is not unusual. To be sure, during the Cold War the TAF, equipped, organized and positioned for defensive operations within the collective security context of NATO, was poorly suited for tasks other than major conflict. 21 Since 1991, however, the Turkish military has participated in a range of 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 Afro-Eurasia landmass, Turkey is a central country with multiple regional identities that cannot be reduced to one, unified

category.

POLITICAL RELATIONS BETWEEN TURKEY AND GERMANY Yet, many opportunities for collaboration between Turkey and Germany can be accomplished via the Turkish population in Germany. Revising the Cultural Partnership Agreement signed by Turkey and Germany in 1958, for example, will contemporize the cultural relations between the two countries, taking into account the huge populations in each of the countries as well as the new CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN TURKEY’S JUNE 2018 ELECTIONS A critical factor shaping the election results was the absence of a level playing field that kept the opposition potential limited. Despite the disadvantage of the early timing of the elections and other limitations that the opposition parties have complained about, the election results could barely be considered an electoral victory. INSIGHT TURKEYISSUESEDITOR'S NOTESCOMMENTARIESARTICLESREVIEWSEVENTS Articles. Turkey’s Legal Approach to Maritime Boundary Delimitation in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. For more than a decade, the states bordering the Eastern Mediterranean Sea have been in disagreement over the delineation of their maritime boundaries.

POLITICAL CULTURE

Insight Turkey, an insightful reference for turkish politics and international affairs. U.S. POLICY TOWARD THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT UNDER U I TOW T IITII IT T T IITATI TIIT 2020 Wınter 129 istrations carried on the same hostile policy toward the PLO by ceasing contact and closing its offices in an attempt to wipe out the organization.4 Nonethe- less, the Palestinian Intifada and the change in the PLO’s

diplomatic stance

TURKEY’S TRANSITION TO AN IMMIGRATION COUNTRY: A PARADIGM A small proportion of these flows represent emigrants from and immigrants to Turkey. According to the World Bank, net immigration – the balance between emigration and immigration - between 2009 and 2013 was +350,000 and up from -50,000 in 2007. 12 This suggests that on average 70,000 more people per year immigrated than emigrated. For instance, in 2010, net immigration was ISSUES | A NEW SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA? THE ROLE OF GREAT AND Africa has often been the focus of contradictory attention that has oscillated between the labels of a physical obstacle to travel between Europe and the East, a geostrategic continent, a collection of failed or failing states, to now a geo-economically important continent with potentially viable markets because of its many and rapidly growing economies endowed with strategic minerals.

BÜŞRA BAYRAMOĞLU

America and the Making of Modern Turkey: Science, Culture and Political Alliances, explores the activities of American philanthropic

organizations in

THE LOGIC BEYOND LAUSANNE: A GEOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON A year and half after Turkey opened its Qatar base, then Turkish army Chief of Staff and current Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar officially opened Turkey’s military facility in Mogadishu, Somalia on September 30, 2017. 9 Turkey’s $50 million, four square km Mogadishu base is its largest training facility outside Anatolia, expected to train 10,000 Somali troops. 10 The Turkish military

MURAT ÜLGÜL

Questions about Islam’s compatibility with democracy, its relationship with terrorism and the lack of good governance in Muslim countries have dominated academic discourse for a long time and Muslim scholars, who are generally defensive in these discussions, have

METIN ATMACA

Studies on the Europeans who lived in the Ottoman Empire have been mostly conducted through the Ottoman and European state archives. Few works on the social history are based on private papers, such as Beshara Doumani’s work, Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995). 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 Afro-Eurasia landmass, Turkey is a central country with multiple regional identities that cannot be reduced to one, unified

category.

INSIGHT TURKEYISSUESEDITOR'S NOTESCOMMENTARIESARTICLESREVIEWSEVENTS Articles. Turkey’s Legal Approach to Maritime Boundary Delimitation in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. For more than a decade, the states bordering the Eastern Mediterranean Sea have been in disagreement over the delineation of their maritime boundaries.

POLITICAL CULTURE

Insight Turkey, an insightful reference for turkish politics and international affairs. U.S. POLICY TOWARD THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT UNDER U I TOW T IITII IT T T IITATI TIIT 2020 Wınter 129 istrations carried on the same hostile policy toward the PLO by ceasing contact and closing its offices in an attempt to wipe out the organization.4 Nonethe- less, the Palestinian Intifada and the change in the PLO’s

diplomatic stance

TURKEY’S TRANSITION TO AN IMMIGRATION COUNTRY: A PARADIGM A small proportion of these flows represent emigrants from and immigrants to Turkey. According to the World Bank, net immigration – the balance between emigration and immigration - between 2009 and 2013 was +350,000 and up from -50,000 in 2007. 12 This suggests that on average 70,000 more people per year immigrated than emigrated. For instance, in 2010, net immigration was ISSUES | A NEW SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA? THE ROLE OF GREAT AND Africa has often been the focus of contradictory attention that has oscillated between the labels of a physical obstacle to travel between Europe and the East, a geostrategic continent, a collection of failed or failing states, to now a geo-economically important continent with potentially viable markets because of its many and rapidly growing economies endowed with strategic minerals.

BÜŞRA BAYRAMOĞLU

America and the Making of Modern Turkey: Science, Culture and Political Alliances, explores the activities of American philanthropic

organizations in

THE LOGIC BEYOND LAUSANNE: A GEOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON A year and half after Turkey opened its Qatar base, then Turkish army Chief of Staff and current Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar officially opened Turkey’s military facility in Mogadishu, Somalia on September 30, 2017. 9 Turkey’s $50 million, four square km Mogadishu base is its largest training facility outside Anatolia, expected to train 10,000 Somali troops. 10 The Turkish military

MURAT ÜLGÜL

Questions about Islam’s compatibility with democracy, its relationship with terrorism and the lack of good governance in Muslim countries have dominated academic discourse for a long time and Muslim scholars, who are generally defensive in these discussions, have

METIN ATMACA

Studies on the Europeans who lived in the Ottoman Empire have been mostly conducted through the Ottoman and European state archives. Few works on the social history are based on private papers, such as Beshara Doumani’s work, Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995). 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 Afro-Eurasia landmass, Turkey is a central country with multiple regional identities that cannot be reduced to one, unified

category.

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Submission of Manuscripts. Currently in its 23 rd volume, Insight Turkey is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal focusing on contemporary political, economic, and social issues. It covers a broad range of topics related to Turkish domestic politics and foreign policy, major developments throughout Turkey’s neighboring regions, and international politics. THE AL-ULA GCC SUMMIT: AN END TO GULF RIVALRY OR JUST Three-and-a-half-years into the crisis that struck the heart of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the 41st Gulf Summit, held on January 5, 2021, in the Saudi city of

REVIEW ARTICLE

When the three books under review are examined together, it is possible to identify some common themes. One of them is that the European states and the EU at large did not efficiently tackled the 2015 refugee crisis. The concept of ‘refugee crisis’ itself has been used to describe not the troublesome journey immigrants have to make, but the catastrophe triggered by the European countries TRADITIONAL RIVALRY OR REGIONAL DESIGN IN THE MIDDLE EAST To be clear, the rise of MbS to crown prince was rapid and it is impossible to isolate this process from regional discussions. Backed by Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ), the UAE’s crown prince, MbS was presented to Saudi and international (particularly American) audiences as the most suitable candidate for the Saudi crown. THE ALEVI OPENING: CONCEPT, STRATEGY AND PROCESS, ARTICLES The Justice and Development Party (The AK Party) government has been taking noteworthy steps in order to open the necessary channels for an honest and sincere exchange with the Alevi community as part of its democratic opening initiative. YÜCEL BOZDAĞLIOĞLU Despite its unique geographical and cultural position between East and the West, Turkey, throughout its modern history, has followed a Western-oriented foreign policy. POLARIZED AND DEMOBILIZED:LEGACIES OF AUTHORITARIANISM IN The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a century-old dispute that has culminated in a sovereign Israeli state and an occupied Palestinian state that is still struggling to gain its sovereignty. CHINA, OIL, AND AFRICA: A NEW PERSPECTIVE, COMMENTARIES Introduction. I n the recently concluded Forum on China-Africa Summit, held from September 3-4, 2018 in Beijing, President Xi Jinping of China announced that his country had implemented ten cooperation plans and delivered on its $60 billion pledge of financing to Africa within the framework of development cooperation since the 2015 FOCAC Summit held in Johannesburg, REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA OR NORTH MACEDONIA?, COMMENTARIES The right to self-determination is violated as “the only rule in the broad international law is that each state can elect its own name, it can determine its own flag or national coat of arms.” 8 A name is the core of not only individual but also collective identity. This right belongs to the Macedonian people, and the sitting Macedonian government is unable to waive the Macedonian people THE POWER TRIANGLE: MILITARY, SECURITY, AND POLITICS IN The Power Triangle offers a historical sociology account of power relations during times of regime stability and change. The book was originally a doctoral dissertation written under the supervision of Professor Michael Mann and defended at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2012; the current manuscript is an improved and updated

version.

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THE LOGIC BEYOND LAUSANNE: A GEOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE CONGRUENCE BETWEEN TURKEY’S NEW HARD POWER AND ITS STRATEGIC

REORIENTATION

- Michaël Tanchum

Turkey’s new expeditionary capability, resting on enhanced naval capacity and new forward bases,... THE PROPOSED TERRITORIAL EXCHANGE BETWEEN SERBIA AND KOSOVO - Aleksander Zdravkovski - Sabrina P

Ramet

Serbia and Kosovo have initiated a process of territorial exchange that could have serious... THE IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL: REWRITING THE MIDDLE EAST MAP

- James M. Dorsey

Surveying today’s Middle Eastern and North African landscape offers few straws of hope. Iran’s...

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PROSPECTS FOR TRILATERAL RELATIONS BETWEEN TURKEY, SERBIA, AND BOSNIA

AND HERZEGOVINA

- Muhidin Mulalic

This paper aims to evaluate the trilateral relations between Turkey, Serbia, and Bosnia and... THE EU’S SECURITY POLICY TOWARDS AFRICA: CAUSES, RATIONALES AND

DYNAMICS

- Abdurrahim Sıradağ This article explores the causes and dynamics impacting the development of the EU`s security... EMERGENCE OF A “BIG BROTHER” IN EUROPE: BORDER CONTROL AND SECURITIZATION OF MIGRATION

- Çiğdem H. Benam

The European Union (EU) has been devising new methods to manage irregular migration and border...

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CIVIL SOCIETY, NGOS AND RELIGION IN THE EUROPEAN REFUGEE CRISIS: A

REVIEW

- Osman Ülker

When the three books under review are examined together, it is possible to identify some common... U.S. INTERESTS AND THE ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT: A REVIEW - Marina Binti Abdul Majid - Zarina Binti Othman - Raed M. I.

Qaddoura

There is a strong relationship between American journalists and scholars. One of the features... ISLAM IN THE BALKANS: GLOBALIZATION, EUROPEANIZATION, LOCALIZATION

- Orel Beilinson

The study of European Islam is now experiencing an unprecedented revival. While most of its...

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THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF MUSLIM BENGAL :AN UNFINISHED BATTLE OF FAITH

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The Political History of Muslim Bengal is more than a mere book on political history; it vividly... POLITICAL SCIENCE: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE - John Olushola Magbadelo This new text on Political Science is a very advanced intellectual discourse on selected topics... WIDENING THE WORLD OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: HOMEGROWN THEORIZING - Abhishek Choudhary The discipline of International Relations (IR) has been subjected to various questions,...

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PANEL | THE BALKANS AT A CROSSROADS In Spring 2019, Insight Turkey published a special issue handling various aspects of the... PANEL | FAULT LINES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION After the publication of its special issue “Fault Lines in the European Union: Brexit, Populism... PANEL | TURKEY AND THE GULF RELATIONS So what is the roadmap for Turkey in the recent Gulf crisis? What are the new opportunities and... __  CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS | EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN We invite you to submit your paper on the recent and significant development in the Eastern...

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