The world is entering a new phase in its international relations. In Eastern Europe new political entities have emerged. The article deals with the case of Slovakia in the period 1939 1945, an example of a de facto State that emerged during a time of...
The article is set within the context of the emerging discourse on environmental security and sustainable development. It seeks to inject a new paradigm into the discourse by demonstrating how a human rights based approach could aid the advancement o...
This paper will explore how the concept of civil society is translated into practice in a specific geographical and social context by analysing responses from the primary sources in Pakistan´s four Northern Areas districts including Ghizer, Gilgit, H...
This paper provides an overview of the current political, social and economic situation in Iraq and analyzes the dynamics of Iraq¿s political governing body, the Council of Representatives (COR), which was elected to office during the March 2010 nati...
This article deals with the underlying dynamics of the flux in the political reform process in Turkey, and the role of EU membership conditionality in triggering those dynamics within the conceptual borders of Europeanization. It argues that ups and ...
This article identifies the differences between being an energy corridor, hub or center, in the case of Turkey, with a particular focus on its foreign and domestic energy features. It elaborates the shift in Turkey's energy discourse from 1991 to now...
in this article I use indentity politics as the survey of how the various group identities affect political processes in Turkey. The methodological survey of identity politics in this chapter has two facets: First, how Turkey deals with the identity ...
The paper begins with a description of the evolution of the NATO Strategic Concept (SC). Then, a two-fold analysis is made: firstly, the content of the presently in force 1999 Strategic Concept and the Comprehensive Political Guidance, and secondly, ...
The recent surge of piracy off the Horn of Africa has raised the alarms among the International Community. New methods and sophisticated weapons have enabled pirates to jeopardise the flow of merchandises through that region and have created a new se...
Chapter VII has only been invoked twice for the establishment of international territorial administrations, in East Timor and Kosovo. Despite the institutional and political heritage of similar operations under the League of Nations and the United Na...
