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Turkey’s Role in the Arab Spring and the Syrian Conflict

(Turkish Policy Quarterly) Turkish involvement in the Arab Spring and the Syrian civil war began at a time when Turkey’s impressive record of democratic progress and economic growth in the 2000s…

Akturk: Turkey’s involvement in Africa feeds into the Turkish ruling party’s self-perception as the protector of Muslims

(NYTimes) — Turkey has courted Africa for more than a decade, boosting trade, opening more than two dozen new embassies and Turkish Airlines routes and dispatching aid to conflict-torn Somalia. More…

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Sino-Soviet Split Redux under President Trump?

(The New Turkey) Perhaps the most important geopolitical puzzle since the collapse of the Soviet Union 25 years ago has been whether the United States will reorient its grand strategy to…

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Post-imperial democracies and new projects of nationhood in Eurasia

(Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies). This article argues that Russia and Turkey radically reframed their projects of nation-building around the turn of the twenty-first century, and the migration patterns…

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Aktürk: Turkey’s new status might be similar to that of France

(Daily Sabah) From those on the right to those on the left, many think tankers and journalists in the U.S. are advising President Barack Obama's administration to reconsider Turkey's membership…

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The Crisis in Russian–Turkish Relations, 2008–2015

(RAD) On November 24, 2015, Turkey shot down a Russian Su-24 bomber aircraft that violated Turkish airspace. This has been interpreted as the primary cause of the spectacular crisis in Russian–Turkish relations…

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The PKK and PYD’s Kurdish Soviet Experiment in Syria and Turkey

(Daily Sabah) While the Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD) is hailed by some in the West almost as a pro-Western democratic militia fighting for a liberal pluralist oasis in the…

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Two Experts Apply IR Theory and Historical Analogies to U.S. Policy on Russia’s Use of Force

Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan—Georgia, Ukraine, Syria? Şener Aktürk (Istanbul): “Russian Military Uses Syria as Proving Ground, and West Takes Notice,” wrote The New York Times. Who would have thought that after pronounced…

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The Fourth Style of Politics: Eurasianism as a Pro-Russian Rethinking of Turkey’s Geopolitical Identity

(Turkish Studies) Abstract: This article discusses the political origins, present-day significance, and implications of the intellectual movement known as “Eurasianism” in Turkey, a movement with Euroskeptic, anti-American, Russophile, neo-nationalist, secularist, and…

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Policy Memo: How Immigration Aids Russia’s Transformation into an Assimilationist Nation-State

Immigration is often discussed in the framework of political economy and security studies. When discussed in the context of national identity, immigration is invariably depicted as a “challenge” or an…

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Turkey’s Role in the Arab Spring and the Syrian Conflict

Akturk: Turkey’s involvement in Africa feeds into the Turkish ruling party’s self-perception as the protector of Muslims

Sino-Soviet Split Redux under President Trump?

Post-imperial democracies and new projects of nationhood in Eurasia

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The Crisis in Russian–Turkish Relations, 2008–2015

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Two Experts Apply IR Theory and Historical Analogies to U.S. Policy on Russia’s Use of Force

The Fourth Style of Politics: Eurasianism as a Pro-Russian Rethinking of Turkey’s Geopolitical Identity

Policy Memo: How Immigration Aids Russia’s Transformation into an Assimilationist Nation-State