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  • Contemporary Kurdish Problem in Turkish Politics

    Contemporary Kurdish Problem in Turkish Politics

    Since the foundation of the republic in Turkey, Kurdish minority has been a long lasting problem in Turkish politics. The absence of a solution to this, contains an ever-present risk of a new civil war. The situation in Turkey nowadays is neither peace nor war....

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  • Propaganda

    Propaganda

    We hear the term “propaganda” from TV, radio, or read it on newspapers. The English term is an 18th century coinage, from the Latin feminine gerund of propagare “to propagate”, originally in Congregatio de Propaganda Fide “congregation for propagating the faith,” a committee of cardinals...

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  • Various Arguments on How to Conceptualize EU as a Foreign Policy Actor?

    Various Arguments on How to Conceptualize EU as a Foreign Policy Actor?

    Academic interest for the study of the various aspect of the EU has grown and still being growing in last decades with an increasing speed which could be attributed to the development of the Common Foreign and Security Policy in the 1990s and the consequential...

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  • Is the United Nations Nothing More Than an Arena for Inter-state Power Politics?

    Is the United Nations Nothing More Than an Arena for Inter-state Power Politics?

    The long lasting debate over the essence of International Organizations has led Barnett and Finnemore to question whether IOs “… really do what their creators intend them to do” [1]. In order to answer this question, the reasons of the creation of IOs should be...

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  • From Ottoman Patriotism to Turkish Nationalism: Time for Turkey’s Patriotism

    From Ottoman Patriotism to Turkish Nationalism: Time for Turkey’s Patriotism

    The  Kurdish question is one of the most serious internal problem in Turkey’s history, even constituted a big hurdle in the way of Turkey’s integration to Europe. In order to understand the theoretical roots of the question and solution options, travel from Ottoman Empire to...

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  • Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict in Azerbaijan’s Public Opinion and Foreign Policy, and Opinion-Policy Linkage on the Conflict

    Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict in Azerbaijan’s Public Opinion and Foreign Policy, and Opinion-Policy Linkage on the Conflict

    BACKGROUND Since the end of the 1980s, a conflict emerged berween Azerbaijan and Armenia over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. In 1992 the conflict culminated into the war between these countries. Cornell (2001), in his book Small nations and great powers: a study of ethnopolitical conflict...

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  • EU Regional Policy and a Comparative Analysis of Policy Transformation: Turkey and Poland

    EU Regional Policy and a Comparative Analysis of Policy Transformation: Turkey and Poland

    INTRODUCTION One of the most important policy fields in the EU is regional policy whose effective implementation depends on the compatibility of local and regional governance systems of member states with EU practice and regulatory norms. In line with the European Regional Policy, the potential...

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  • About Us and Them

    About Us and Them

    The Near East, The Middle East, The Far East and even sometimes the Far Asia… We didn’t know that the Middle East, which is in fact, too close to us, is far and the place called the Far East is far away to us. The...

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  • Woman on the Scale…She Looks Fit

    Woman on the Scale…She Looks Fit

    Today, roughly half of the population is female. Despite this mass and much of the world economy driven by women, they have just 10% of the world’s income. The gender gap became clearer especially after World Economic Forum 2010 released its worldwide report results. According...

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  • Deal or No Deal: China vs the USA

    Deal or No Deal: China vs the USA

    American interests require a peaceful, prosperous, open, responsible and cooperative China since the times of Roosevelt. Because of the shared interests and primarily domestic concerns of both nations in the near term, it is essential for both states to see the importance of cooperation with...

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