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LIBYA: TOWARDS THE IRAQI EXPERIENCE?
Libya has drawn international attention in the recent months. Attention that has grown in the wake of a terrorist attack perpetrated in Benghazi in September 2012 that claimed the life of the U.S. Ambassador.
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ANALYSIS OF TURKEY’S SOFT POWER STRATEGY
Introduction Since the Turkish Republic was established, “Peace at home, peace in the world” principle has always constituted the basis of Turkish foreign policy originated by the founder of Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal
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INTERVIEW WITH MURAT PARILTI ON TURKEY’S SOFT POWER STRATEGY
Interview with Murat Parıltı (University of Northampton, Free Lance Researcher) Subject: TURKEY’S SOFT POWER STRATEGY Ali Koca: We witness profound changes when we analyze Turkish Foreign Policy between the years 1923-2013. As a matter of
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YRD. DOÇ. DR. OZAN ÖRMECİ’NİN TUNUS KONFERANSI
Uluslararası Politika Akademisi (UPA) Genel Koordinatörü ve Girne Amerikan Üniversitesi Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi bölümü başkanı Yrd. Doç. Dr. Ozan Örmeci, 12 Kasım 2013 tarihinde Tunus’ta Ramada Hotel’de FES’in düzenlediği Young Leaders konferansına
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INTERVIEW WITH DR. ROBERT MASON
Dr. Robert Mason is Lecturer in International Relations department at the British University in Egypt (http://www.bue.edu.eg/). He writes, teaches and researches on the broad subject of International Relations, with a particular emphasis on Middle
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EGYPT 2013: WHAT CAN YOU TELL?
Genuine democracy requires practice and partnership, and cannot be realized aloof from people. Mobilizing crowds to replace the ballot box is very dangerous as the lust for power and authority can be cast in
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TURKEY’S FOREIGN POLICY NEEDS A RESET
Turkey’s current situation proves that the AKP’s foreign policy approach has roundly failed. When they rose to power in 2002, Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, made a
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EGYPT: COUP OR A COURSE CORRECTION?
During the past few weeks, I have been dismayed at the degree of intolerance and rigidity in the positions of quarreling parties in Egypt, with both taking defensive attitudes, unwilling to listen to the
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THE ARAB WORLD AND DEMOCRACY
The Arab Spring struck the Middle East to the core as popular uprisings landed in Tunisia then Egypt, Libya followed suit after Yemen, yet the course of events was doomed when the process was
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TURKISH SPRING: OCCUPY GEZİ
A small environmentalist protest that started on 28 May 2013 in order to protect one of the rare green areas in Taksim called “Gezi Park” surprisingly turned into a massive social movement in Turkey
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