It is said that a messenger from Sultan Selim III, who greeted Naval Captain William Bainbridge, the first American official to visit Istanbul, upon noticing the stars in the US flag remarked that it was 'a good omen of the future of friendly discourse which would exist between the two…

Tareq Y. Ismael and Mustafa Aydin explore Turkey's role within a globalizing world and, as a new century unfolds, examine a nation at the crossroads of both time and space within the international political order. The volume discusses potential policies and their suspected implications for Turkey and its people in…

JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN EUROPE AND THE BALKANS, 2003 Turkish–Greek problems are not new. They are well delineated and have remained dormant until very recently when the EU Helsinki summit in 1999 took a decision to accept Turkey's candidature, accompanied by lifting of the Greek veto on Turkish membership aspirations and…

STRADİGMA.COM, AYLIK STRATEJİ VE ANALİZ E-DERGİSİ, MAYIS 2003, SAYI 4 Bu sorunun en kısa cevabı "elbette onu yönetmek istiyor" olacaktır. Fakat, ABD basit bir şekilde dünyayı yönetmenin ötesinde, onu kendi arzuladığı şekilde şekillendirmek de istediği ve bu durum hepimizi doğrudan etkilediği için, derinliği olmayan basit gözlemlerin ötesinde bu yargının arka planını incelemek…

THE REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, VOLUME 3, NO. 2, 2003. Mustafa AYDIN Although not one of the great powers of the twentieth century, its geopolitic allocation has enabled Turkey to play a potentially higher role in world politics than otherwise would have been possible. It not only holds the key to…