There is a spread opinion that the Soviet and the US interventions in Afghanistan are extremely alike in terms of their causes, means and effects. Though we can draw a few parallels between these two instances of intervention, ...

This Master’s Essay examines Turkish foreign policy in the Middle East under the Justice and Development Party (JDP) from the years 2002-2011 and how a new assertiveness in the country’s foreign policy is helping it ...

Before 1991, the former Soviet Union (SU) had embassies in a number of Latin American countries. After the collapse, the former Soviet republics, now independent states, separately established diplomatic relations with the ...

Given study aims to explore the social mobilization around nationalist discourse during ‘Sharjum’ (1988) and ‘No’ movement to Armenian Turkish Protocols (2008-09). It modifies the ethno-symbolic and modernist frameworks ...

This Master’s Essay examines the level of importance attached to the issue of the official recognition of the ethnic cleansings of the Armenian population in the Azerbaijani city Sumgait as genocide on the foreign policy ...

With the spread of democracy as a constitutive norm, democracy promotion has become one of the most institutionalized practices in the foreign policy agendas of world powers-the US and EU. Despite their normative commitments ...