Browsing by Author "Çelikpala, Mitat"
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Başarısızdevlet-demokratik model ülke sarmalında Gürcistan'ın 20 yılı
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Publisher and Date:(2012)Gürcistan, bağımsızlığın ilan edildiği 1990’lı yıllardan bu güne zayıf siyasi, ekonomik ve finansal yapısı ile etnik sorunlarıyla sürekli olarak bir başarısız devlet görüntüsü sergiledi. Ülkede güçlü, demokratik ve kapsayıcı bir siyasi liderin çıkmaması, etkin muhalefetin oluşamaması birçok sorunlara yol açtı. Gürcistan’ın kısa vadeli geleceği, 2012’de yapılacak parlamento seçimleriyle nasıl bir parlamento oluşacağı ve 2013’te yapılacak başkanlık seçimlerinin nasıl seyredeceği konusuna bağlıdır. ...
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Energy Security in South East Europe
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Publisher and Date:(Palgrave, 2013)
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Energy Security: NATO's New Threat Perception
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Publisher and Date:(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2014)Energy security could enter NATO's security agenda as one of the main issues just during the last decade. NATO leaders recognize that the disruption of the flow of vital resources could affect Alliance security interests. There is no agreement on the definition of energy security in NATO as it differs based on each country's needs ; however there is a paragraph in the NATO concept from 2010 that states the importance of energy security and in 2012 there was further agreement that NATO wants to be ...
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Enerji güvenliği: NATO’nun yeni tehdit algısı
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Publisher and Date:(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği İktisadi İşletmesi, 2014)Enerji güvenliği, ana amacı İttifak üyelerini askeri tehditlere karşı savunmak olan NATO’nun öncelikli konu başlıkları arasına ancak son on yılda girebilmiştir. Bu çalışmada, NATO’nun Soğuk Savaş sonrası dönemde düzenlenen zirvelerinde yayınlanan zirve bildirgeleri ve stratejik konseptler ile çeşitli NATO zeminlerinde yapılan tartışmalar ışığında, enerji güvenliğinin NATO için taşıdığı anlam ve önem üzerinde durulmaktadır. NATO’nun enerji güvenliği kavramına yaklaşımı değerlendirilerek, ...
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Escalating rivalries and diverging interests: prospects for stability and security in the Black Sea region
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2010)The Black Sea region is increasingly becoming a priority on the international agenda. In fact a regional approach is emerging as actors understand that common problems need to be addressed jointly. Nevertheless cooperation efforts are hampered by a number of factors such as uneven economic and political development within and among countries nationalist forces and longstanding animosities between regional players. In this context it is imperative to foster sound policies aimed at strengthening ...
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The EU's security actorness in the South Caucasus region after the August 2008 War
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Publisher and Date:(Kadir Has University, 2018)Regionalism has always been in the international era. Regionalism studies has attracted the attention of academics since the end of the Cold War. However, regionalism is divided into two waves as old and new regionalism. The former appeared after the end of World War II (the 1950s) and became influential until 1980s. The latter appeared after end of the Cold War (1980s onwards). There are some distinctions between the two waves of regionalism in terms of the structure, arguments and interest areas. ...
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From "Energy bridge" to "energy hub"?: evolving discourses of geopolitics of energy transportation in Turkey (1991-2014)
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Publisher and Date:(Kadir Has University, 2019)This dissertation is an attempt to incorporate the critical geopolitics approach into the debate of “Turkey’s geographical role in energy transportation” which became a part of Turkey’s discourse of geographical exceptionalism in the post-Cold War era. By analyzing the changes in the discourse of the political/governmental elites with a historical outlook, the dissertation tries to highlight the politicized and context-based nature of the concepts and metaphors that are attributed to the ...
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Rekabet ve işbirliği ikileminde yönünü arayan Türk-Rus ilişkileri
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Publisher and Date:(Ahmet Yesevi University, 2015)Son dönem Türk-Rus ikili ilişkileri, işbirliği ve stratejik ortaklık söylemleri etrafında tanımlamaktadır. 1990’lı yıllara hâkim olan rekabet söyleminin yerini alan bu yeni bakış açısı, TürkRus ikili ilişkilerinin seyrinde temel bir dönüşüme işaret etmektedir. İki ülkenin ilişkilerini geliştirirken işbirliğinin boyutlanmasını sağlayacak hedef bölgesi olarak, 1990’lı yıllarda rekabetin en yoğun biçimde yaşandığı Avrasya’yı seçmesi ise, Türk Dış Politikasının genel çizgisi ve ikili ilişkilerin seyri ...
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Rekabet ve İşbirliği İkileminde Yönünü Arayan Türk-Rus İlişkileri
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Publisher and Date:(Ahmet Yesevi Üniversitesi Mütevelli Heyet Başkanlığı, 2015)Son dönem Türk-Rus ikili ilişkileri, işbirliği ve stratejik ortaklık söylemleri etrafında tanımlamaktadır. 1990’lı yıllara hâkim olan rekabet söyleminin yerini alan bu yeni bakış açısı, TürkRus ikili ilişkilerinin seyrinde temel bir dönüşüme işaret etmektedir. İki ülkenin ilişkilerini geliştirirken işbirliğinin boyutlanmasını sağlayacak hedef bölgesi olarak, 1990’lı yıllarda rekabetin en yoğun biçimde yaşandığı Avrasya’yı seçmesi ise, Türk Dış Politikasının genel çizgisi ve ikili ilişkilerin ...
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Russian and Turkish foreign policy activism in the Syrian theater
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Publisher and Date:(International Relations Council of Turkey, 2019)Russia and Turkey have been involved in remarkable redefinitions of their foreign policies while navigating through turbulent times in the Post-Cold War era. This has manifested in a search of being recognized as a great power. The tragic civil war in Syria has been the theatre of these ambitions of these two states in highly controversial ways. They have been on the opposite sides until recently on the essential question of the regime change in that country. The risk of a direct fight has even ...
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Russian and Turkish Foreign Policy Activism in the Syrian Theater
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Publisher and Date:(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2019)Russia and Turkey have been involved in remarkable redefinitions of their foreign policies while navigating through turbulent times in the Post-Cold War era. This has manifested in a search of being recognized as a great power. The tragic civil war in Syria has been the theatre of these ambitions of these two states in highly controversial ways. They have been on the opposite sides until recently on the essential question of the regime change in that country. The risk of a direct fight has even ...
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The Russian Policies in the South Caucasus
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Publisher and Date:(IOS Press, 2011)In the post-2000 period, Russia's relations with the former Soviet geography, or its "near abroad," are dominated by such issues as energy, namely the dependence of the surrounding countries on Russia, changes in the trade patterns and the impact of globalization, the fight with terrorism, entrenched ethnic conflicts, and the enlargement of Western structures including NATO. In this general framework, the Caucasus has had a special importance for Russia due to its geopolitical and strategic position ...
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Securitization of democratization :the case study of Georgia after rose revolution
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Publisher and Date:(Kadir Has University, 2016)Georgia is one of the few examples of successful democratization in the post- Soviet region. The trajectory of Georgian democratization which started with the Rose Revolution in 2003 is critical to understanding the changing nature of political transformation in world politics. Newly conceived the securitization of democratization that appeared during this process is the main topic of this dissertation. The United States’ attempt at the macro-securitization of democracy after the September 11 ...
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Terrorist Threats to Energy Critical Infrastructure Technology and Protection Systems
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Publisher and Date:(IOS Press, 2013)Critical infrastructure is an umbrella term referring to a country's assets that are essential to the nation's security public health and safety economic vitality and way of life. This infrastructure is owned or operated by both the public and the private sector. All agencies responsible for protecting the critical infrastructure act to mitigate the risks through implementing risk management techniques. Even the best security management plans and legislation which compel their enforcement are ...
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The Only Thing We Have to Fear: Post 9/11 Institutionalization of In-security [Korkmamız gereken tek şey: 11 Eylül sonrasında güvensizliğin kurumsallaşması]
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Publisher and Date:(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2012)During the last decade billions of dollars have been spent to increase security measures in the United States. New institutions including a department for homeland security have been established new security tools have been developed and surveillance of Americans has been increased. However despite the creation of 'safety zones' neither the level of the Americans' feeling of security from further terrorist attacks nor their confidence in the ability of US governments to prevent attacks has seen ...
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Turkey and the Caucasus: Transition from Reactive Foreign Policy to Proactive Rhythmic Diplomacy
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Publisher and Date:(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2010)The consequences of the August 2008 Russian-Georgian War have deeply influenced not only the Caucasus but overall global stability as well. Turkey as a regional actor which claims to follow active diplomacy in her region has also been directly affected. Currently Turkey has positioned itself as a regional actor with a 'new' political perspective and has responded to developments in order to give the events shape and to ensure stability in the region. This attitude has caused controversies. The ...
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Turkey and the Caucasus: Transition from reactive foreign policy to proactive rhythmic diplomacy [Türkiye ve Kafkasya: Reaksiyoner dip politikadan proaktif ritmik diplomasiye geçiş]
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Publisher and Date:(International Relations Council of Turkey, 2010)The consequences of the August 2008 Russian-Georgian War have deeply infl uenced not only the Caucasus but overall global stability as well. Turkey as a regional actor which claims to follow active diplomacy in her region has also been directly aff ected. Currently Turkey has positioned itself as a regional actor with a 'new' political perspective and has responded to developments in order to give the events shape and to ensure stability in the region. This attitude has caused controversies. The ...
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Turkey and the changing energy geopolitics of Eurasia
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Publisher and Date:(Elsevier Science, 2019)While Turkeys geographical location is usually viewed as a major advantage in the energy sphere since many countries in its immediate neighbourhood require active Turkish collaboration in order to export or import oil and natural gas via economically feasible pipeline projects the ongoing political economic and military conflicts between the same global and regional actors not only negatively affect the development of the energy transportation routes in Eurasia but also present a major foreign ...
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Turkey's rapprochements with Greece and Armenia: Understanding path breaking steps
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals, 2019)This comparative analysis considers the Turkish-Greek rapprochement and the Turkish-Armenian rapprochement processes with a three-dimensional approach. Although the deep-rooted conflicts between neither Greece and Turkey nor Armenia and Turkey were resolved via these processes, the bilateral relationships between the countries have significantly differed. This paper argues that two key main reasons lie behind this difference: the nature of the initiatives taken during the two processes and the ...
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Turkish Efforts in Peacekeeping and the Introduction of the TUBAKOV Dataset: An Exploratory Analysis
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018)This study introduces the TUBAKOV dataset which offers extensive data on 57 peacekeeping operations (PKOs) that Turkey has contributed to between the years 1988-2015. TUBAKOV improves existing data in several ways. First it draws data from governmental resources that have not been previously used. Second Turkey's contributions for each PKO are presented both at the levels of PKO and PKO-contribution year format. The website of the dataset also allows access to qualitative data such as primary text ...
