Global Political and Social Dynamics

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The revolutionary movements, which began in 2010 in Tunisia, turned into a democratisation wave in North African and Middle Eastern countries that came to be called the Arab Spring. The revolts and...

• RAMAZAN ERDAĞ

1. Introduction: The Phenomenon of Non-State Armed Actors and Patterns of Violent Geopolitics in the Middle East -- 2. The Transformation of the Regional Order and Non-state Armed Actors: Pathways to the Empowerment -- 3. Understanding “Foreign Policy” of the PYD/YPG as a Non-State Actor in Syria and Beyond -- 4. The…

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• ELEM EYRİCE TEPECİKLİOĞLU

There has been a growing fusion of populism and Euroscepticism in European politics, especially after recent economic and migration crises. Despite being a founding EU member and one of the most Europhile countries, Italy has seen the simultaneous rise of populism and Euroscepticism, especially after the last national…

African affairs occupied a secondary status in Turkish foreign policy until very recently. However, following the adoption of the Action Plan for Opening up to Africa in the late 1990s, Turkish politicians started to assign a higher priority to relations with African countries. The incumbent Turkish government now att…

• ELEM EYRİCE TEPECİKLİOĞLU

This article concerns Turkey’s Cyprus policy in the fast transforming geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean. It argues that dramatic changes in the Eastern Mediterranean with the Arab Spring and the discovery of natural gas reserves in the region paved way for a hard power strategy on Cyprus. Both have shaken the t…

• KIVANÇ ULUSOY

Promoting development in Africa has faced significant challenges partly because of the continent’s peripheral access to global markets as well as its internal geographical limitations on the movement of people, goods, and services. However, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and its “developmental” role has emerged a…

• MURAT ÖNDER

Italian-Turkish relations in the inter-war years oscillated between antagonism and friendship. In 1935, Turkish Foreign Minister Tevfik Ru tu Aras described the evaluation of Italian-Turkish relations in stages of 'warmth', 'cooling off' and 'frost'.I The 'warmth' in the relations came with Aras' meeting with Benito M…

• DİLEK CAN BARLAS

The Cyprus problem became a subject that not only threatens the acceptance of Cyprus to the European Union but the whole enlargement process as well. Greece strongly supports the acceptance of Cyprus to the Union even without a solution to the Cyprus problem. On the other hand, other EU members and Turkey firmly rejec…

• İLHAN ÖZTÜRK

Libya, inspired by the February 17 revolution but devastated by post-revolt challenges, is struggling to build order, as state, non-state, and external actors exacerbate the already fragile security environment. Among these actors, state and non-state actors pose a repeating and paradoxical dilemma. Libya’s post-Qadda…

• MURAT ASLAN

The expansion of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) with the membership of Ethiopia in 2024 and partner countries of Nigeria and Uganda in 2025 requires a new debate about whether South Africa is the only semi-peripheral power in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). South Africa’s leading role on the continent…

• SİNAN BARAN