A nation must think before it acts.
At any given time during the past decade, several ethnic conflicts have raged around the world. In the year 2001, these include such wellknown cases as Kosovo, Chechnya, Israel, Kashmir, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. In the view of many...
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Read more »The administration of George W. Bush, which one might term Bush II in view of the fact that many of the new president’s foreign and defense advisers are veterans of his father’s administration, inherits a world of challenges any...
Read more »Of the many facets to the relationship between religion and domestic and international politics, I want to devote most of my attention today to the role of religion in international peacemaking. But even as I focus on this positive...
Read more »Democracy and human rights in Turkey have been a prominent subject of discussion in many international forums over the past ten years due to that country’s unique domestic difficulties and geopolitical importance. Hardly any other country in the world...
Read more »In November 1998, Turkey’s Kurdish question returned to the top of the international agenda with the seizure in Italy of Abdullah O¨ calan, leader of the rebellious Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan— PKK). Demonstrations in support of Ocalan’s...
Read more »In 1992 Turkey was in the midst of a war with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan—PKK), whose forces were credibly estimated to be 10,000 strong. In 1996 the journalist Franz Schurmann called the PKK “the biggest guerrilla...
Read more »Turkey and Israel, by all accounts the predominant powers in the Middle East, have in the past decade forged an unlikely alliance that baffles many a keen observer of the region. On the face of it, there would seem...
Read more »Since the end of the Cold War, Turkish diplomacy has been active a` tous azimuths, not least the northeastern. In the many, often contentious republics that arose in the Caucasus after the Soviet crack-up, Turkish leaders perceive opportunities to...
Read more »American foreign policy in the past century has frequently been shaped not by the realities confronted by diplomats and soldiers, but by an idealistic longing to remake the world in the United States’ own image. The first American attempt...
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