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A REALISTIC ASSESSMENT OF THE ARAB SPRING AFTER A DECADE
Arab Spring was the name used for the wave of pro-democracy protests and uprisings that took place in some of the Middle Eastern and North African states beginning in 2010 and 2011 and challenging
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UPA STRATEGIC AFFAIRS DERGİSİNİN ÜÇÜNCÜ CİLT İKİ NOLU SAYISI YAYIMLANDI
Uluslararası Politika Akademisi (UPA) ekibince hazırlanan ve yayın hayatına 2020 yılında başlayan UPA Strategic Affairs adlı uluslararası hakemli akademik e-derginin 3. cilt 2 nolu sayısı yayımlandı. Birçok Türk ve yabancı akademisyenin editör, hakem ve
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VALERIE BUNCE VE SHARON WOLCHIK’İN ‘DEFEATING AUTHORITARIAN LEADERS IN POSTCOMMUNIST COUNTRIES’ ESERLERİNDE AZERBAYCAN
Siyaset Bilimi’nde Karşılaştırmalı Politika (Comparative Politics) alanında en önemli konu başlıklarından birisi olan “demokratikleşme” (democratization) literatüründe, Sovyetler Birliği’nin ve Yugoslavya’nın dağılmasının ardından bağımsızlığını kazanan ve kendilerine özgü rejimler kurmaya başlayan post-komünist (komünizm sonrası) ülkelerin
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INTERVIEW WITH DR. BEATA PISKORSKA
Dr. Beata Piskorska teaches International Relations courses at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin in Poland. She is an expert of European Union especially in terms of EU’s Eastern Neighborhood Policy. Piskorska had
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YRD. DOÇ. DR. OZAN ÖRMECİ’DEN YENİ BİLDİRİ: “CHARACTERISTICS OF FIRST-CLASS DEMOCRACIES: THE ROLE OF POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FACTORS”
Beykent Üniversitesi Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi (İngilizce) bölümü öğretim üyesi ve Uluslararası Politika Akademisi (UPA) Genel Koordinatörü Yrd. Doç. Dr. Ozan Örmeci, 10 Mayıs 2017 tarihinde Irak’ın Kürdistan Bölgesel Yönetimi’ne bağlı Erbil şehrinde
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MIKAEL WIGELL’DEN ‘MAPPING HYBRID REGIMES’
Dr. Mikael Wigell, Finlandiya Uluslararası İlişkiler Enstitüsü’nde görev yapan genç bir akademisyendir.[1] Wigell’in 2008 yılında Democratization dergisinde yayınlanan “Mapping ‘Hybrid Regimes’: Regime Types and Concepts in Comparative Politics” (‘Melez Rejimler’i Konumlandırmak: Karşılaştırmalı Politikada Rejim
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PLURALISM VS. CORPORATISM
Conflict and consensus are inseparable elements of democracy. In a democratic society, different groups and individuals compete for power and power struggle is a fundamental tendency in the democratic political life. Pluralism, which can
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DEFINING AND STUDYING DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION
As Samuel Huntington analyzes in his famous book The Third Wave[1], starting from the mid 1970s, there has been a visible trend -using the old categorization- in second and third world countries to make
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EU-TURKEY RELATIONS IN 2014: GETTING OFF TO A GOOD START?
The most optimistic scenarios foresaw that Turkey could become an EU member around the year 2014 if Turkey’s domestic reforms were ambitious enough and the EU would have had a clear political will to
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‘SINK OR SWIM’: TIME FOR A TWO-WAY RE-ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN TURKEY AND THE EU
EU-Turkey relations were put on hold before the summer awaiting approval by European Union (EU) Member States to restart negotiations on the basis of European Commission’s annual Turkey progress report. For the first time
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