By displacing more than half of the country’s pre-war population, the conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic has become the catalyst for one of the biggest humanitarian and refugee crises of our time. The flow of more than ...

As a result of the transition in warfare since the end of the Cold War, the term peace, which conventionally has been referred to inter-state settlements, became to be affiliated with “the resolution of ethnopolitical ...

The aim of this thesis is to research the impact of the security factor upon Turkey-EU relations especially between the periods of 1991-2014. The concept of security generally means being away from threats, fears and ...

Of all topics on the international political agenda, climate change is regarded as one of the most important issue. Climate change threats the ecosystem of the Earth by putting the existing environmental settings in its ...

This thesis examines the role of soft power in conflict settings and its impact on the transformation of conflict. The research is aimed at drawing a theoretical framework that would depict the relationship between the use ...

Turkey has always been on the migration route throughout history. The Syrian crisis has caused a mass raid in the area that is accustomed to migration. However, Syrian refugees in many ways has turned out to be a different ...

Masculinity is a set of practice that is structured by social and cultural norms which depend upon experience’s of the subject which is shaping and shaped by every structure from politics to sports, discourse to technology, ...

With a particular attention to the memoirs and travel writings of the political and cultural elites of the late Ottoman Empire and early Republican period, this study examines the relationship of these elites with the ...

The right to self-determination has stood the test of the time and is still a topic of academic discussion even though the decolonization process is thought to have ended long ago. Today's debates on self-determination are ...

The BRICS, the acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, currently encompass 40 % of global population and about 23% of global GDP. They are deeply engaged in the global economic and political system, and ...