Caucasus-Central Asia

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın, Para Gündem programında koronavirüs aşısı üzerinden yapılan tartışmaların sosyolojik boyutları, aşıların küresel dağıtımının nasıl olacağı, hükümet ve sendikalar arasındaki asgari ücret pazarlığı, Habertürk'ün RTÜK'e vermiş olduğu ceza, Türk siyasetinde yaşanan son tartışmalar, AB'nin Türkiye ile ilgili görüşeceği yaptırım kararı, Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan'ın Doğu Akdeniz'de devam eden süreçle…

The aim of this new initiative is to reach the general public as well as specialist audiences with informed assessments on the state of our world. It is an extension of the work being carried out both by the Center for International and European Studies (CIES) at Kadir Has University…

Prof. Dr Mustafa Aydın Habertürk'te yayınlana Para Gündem programında, Koronavirüs'te yaşanan yeniden yükselmenin ardından alınacağı söylenen önlemleri, ekonomide yaşanan zorluklar, S-400'ler hakkındaki son gelişmeler, İYİ Parti'de yaşanan son tartışmalar ve Türkiye siyasetinde yaşanan son ittifak tartışmalarını değerlendirdi.

Eurasia is a vast region, stretching from eastern Europe in the West to the Wall of China in the East. Its western parts has had a specific role in the development of geopolitical analysis. What Alfred Mackinder called struggle to control over the “pivot” in 1904 in a paper submitted…

The resignation of the newly appointed Armenian Prime Minister  Sargsyan'>Serzh Sargsyan on April 23 after 11 days of mass demonstrations by the public have briefly brought back the sparkle of colored revolutions of the early 2000s to the Caucasus.  The situation could not be more different. The Armenians took to the streets on April 13 to “reject Serzh”…

Why does Turkey buy S-400 from Russia? Why was the war in Georgia predictable? Professor Mustafa Aydin from Istanbul about the game of strength in the region? Since 2007, many experts have predicted the course of events in Georgia - We saw Russia pushing Georgia to the wall, waiting for…

The situation in the Southern Caucasus, Russia's activities, the role and interests of Turkey, Iran, the European Union and the United States in the region were discussed at the College of Europe in Natolin by Dr. Tracey German from King's College in London, Yana Zabanova from the University of Groningen,…

The Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway line went into operation last week with a ceremony at the Port of Baku, attended by the presidents of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The 826-kilometer rail link, also known as the “Iron Silk Road,” added another layer to the existing infrastructure projects between the…

North Korea’s second intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test on July 28, three weeks after its first test on July 4, raised tensions in the Asia-Pacific and strained relations between China and the United States. The U.S. President Donald Trump, while tweeting from his account that the U.S. “will no longer allow this…

The NATO summit in Brussels on May 25, three days after the Manchester suicide bomb attack, was an important gathering not only because it brought together the newly elected Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron and Theresa May with other leaders, but also because they decided to step up NATO’s role in the…

The uncertainties caused by the absence of a grand bargain between Russia and the United States are having a costly effect on both Turkey and the rest of the world, according to Mustafa Aydın, the rector of Kadir Has University. The lack of response to Russian moves in the Caucasus led to Russia’s…

The international system has been evolving ever since the bipolarity of the Cold War ended. As the unipolar U.S. moment was short lived, and none of the international powers has enough capacity to unilaterally dominate its peers, a somewhat multipolar world system is slowly emerging. Under such conditions, Russia, since…

The speed of the world politics as such that our attentions are diverted every day to a different part of the world, where a new, or sometimes not so-new, conflicts, crises, problems flare up. Most of the time, the world leadership, content with window dressing, fails to address their root…

Russia hosted two important gatherings, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and BRICS (the five emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summits on July 8-10, 2015, in the Russian city of Ufa, as the simultaneous holder of the rotating chairmanships of both institutions. The timing of the…

Bu yazı 02.07.2015 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. Social movements and popular protests organized around them against government policies have become a part of global politics since the Occupy Wall Street movement. Although the immediate cause differs, they all have similar underlying motivations: The inability of governments to understand the…

Since the end of the Cold War, the nature of international conflicts has changed considerably. While there has been a steady decline in interstate warfare, intrastate conflicts have increased in number and ferocity. In some cases, these intrastate conflicts have overstepped the state boundary and became threats to their neighbors…

Bu yazı 19.02.2015 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande brokered a truce between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Feb. 12 in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, to subdue the bloodshed in eastern Ukraine. After intense and acrimonious…

Gelenektir; yeni yıl başlayınca eskisinin bilançosu yapılır, geleceğe dair beklentiler dile getirilir. Ben de bu sayıda 2014 boyunca Türkiye’ye yakın coğrafyalarda yaşanan siyasi gelişmeleri gözden geçirerek, geçtiğimiz yıl gündemi meşgul eden yeni ve eski(meyen) sorunlara bakmak, 2015’de önümüzü görmemize yardım edecek süreçleri tanı(mla)mak istedim. Bu tür kısa bir yazıyla tüm…

Bu yazı 12.02.2015 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. The fighting between government forces and separatists in eastern Ukraine has flared up again despite attempts to ease the tension through a cease-fire agreement, signed in Minsk on Sept. 5, 2014. After a December lull, the separatists renewed their attacks with not-so-hidden…

Bu yazı 15.01.2015 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. The massacre at the office of satire magazine Charlie Hebdo in France on Jan. 7, 2015 topped headlines all over the world throughout last week, and world leaders marched across Paris to pay tribute to the victims and protest senseless violence against…

Bu yazı 01.01.2015 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. The war in Afghanistan came to a formal end on Dec. 28, 2014, with a flag-lowering ceremony in Kabul. The symbolic act, which was held under heavy security measures due to threats of an attack, marked the conclusion of the U.S.-led Operation…

Bu yazı 18.12.2014 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. Russian President Vladimir Putin created a sensation when he announced during a visit to Turkey on Dec. 1 that Russia would stop developing the South Stream Gas Project and would instead explore a new pipeline project to transport natural gas to Europe…

While the U.S.-led coalition was busy bombing the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) forces in Iraq and Syria, a recent probe by the Russian Air Force all over NATO air space and beyond brought back memories of the Cold War and further increased tension between Russia and…

Since the end of the Cold War, the number of sovereign states in the international system has increased, and state borders have changed significantly. The end of the bloc system following the dissolution of the USSR, with accompanying nationalism, triggered violent conflict around the world during the 1990s, leading to…

Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has been trying valiantly to reform itself to remain relevant in the face of ever changing global threats. Enlarged definitions of threat have been adopted without clear boundaries and accordingly NATO has transformed itself from an alliance of collective defense to a collective security…

Bu yazı 08.05.2014 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. Since the outbreak of the latest crisis in Ukraine in late November 2013, the tension has continued to worsen and the division among citizens has grown, pushing the country nearer to civil war with every passing day. Although the country has so far…

Bu yazı 01.05.2014 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. The prime minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, released a surprising statement on April 23 about the deaths surrounding the mass deportation of Armenians during World War I. The responses so far range from warm welcomes to outright rejections of the message.…

Bu yazı 24.04.2014 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. Russian annexation of Crimea and the ongoing crisis in Ukraine has heightened security concerns of several countries from Baltic to Eastern Europe and from the Caucasus to the Central Asia. NATO’s inability to prevent violations of territorial integrity of its partners, first in Georgia and…

Bu yazı 17.04.2014 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. The illegal annexation of Crimea and instigation of tension in eastern Ukraine by Russia are rapidly eroding the last vestiges of the international system, created within a hundred years of the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia back in 1648. What is at stake…

Önemli hidrokarbon enerji kaynaklarına yakınlığı ve Sovyet sonrası dönemde içine düştüğü çevresel, ekonomik, siyasal ve askeri istikrarsızlık unsurlarıyla gündeme gelen Kafkasya, uluslararası aktörlerin ilgisini çekmeye devam ediyor. Her ne kadar bölge ülkelerinin bağımsızlıklarının ilk yıllarındaki siyasi tedirginlikler azalmış, uluslararası alandaki konumları daha belirginleşmişse de, 1990'lı yılların ilk yarısında ortaya çıkan…

REASSESSING SECURITY IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS: REGIONAL CONFLICTS AND TRANSFORMATION, Ed. by Annie Jafalian, Routledge, 2011 The end of the Cold War with the dissolution of the Soviet Union brought challenges and opportunities for regional and global powers at the beginning of the 1990s.While a power vacuum was created in…

This book contains 16 papers, presented at the workshop: Non-Traditional Security Threats and Regional Cooperation in the Southern Caucasus, which was held in Istanbul, Turkey in October 2009. Whilst the Cold War did not exclude the existence of other threats, such as environmental hazards, organized crime, terrorism, economic instability and…

UNISCI DISCUSSION PAPERS, NO. 23, 2010. Mustafa AYDIN The emergence of newly independent states in the Caucasus at the end of the Cold War presented challenges toTurkey, while enlarging its role. The collapse of the Soviet Union removed the century-old Soviet/Russianthreat, while at the same time created a power vacuum…

31 Ağustos’da Türkiye ile Ermenistan diplomatik ilişki tesisi ve iki ülke ilişkilerini geliştirme konularında vardıkları anlaşmayı ve bundan sonra izleyecekleri takvimi iki protokolle dünya kamuoyuna duyurdular. Her iki ülkede de kamuoylarına mal olarak “milli” meselelere dönüşen ilişkilerin garip yapısı Dışişleri Bakanı Ahmet Davutoğlu’nca açıklanan protokollerin uygulamaya sokulması yönteminde de kendisini…

Röportaj: Prof. Dr. Mustafa Özcan ÜLTANIR Ültanır: Sayın Hocam, geçen röportajımızdan sonra önce Ermenistan, ardından da Azerbaycan seyahatlerinizle yeni gözlemleriniz ve temaslarınız oldu. Dolayısıyla yeni değerlendirmelerinizi almak isterim. Azerbaycan’da ne gibi yeni gelişmeler var? AZERBAYCAN DİPLOMASİSİ 90 YAŞINDA Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın: Evet, önce Ermenistan’a gitmiştim. Daha sonra Azerbaycan’a gittim.…

The origins of this special issue go back to a series of panels entitled “Turkish Foreign Policy in the 21st Century: Internal and External Challenges and Future Prospects,” organized by the International Relations Council of Turkey for the 7th International Relations Conference of Middle East Technical University in Ankara. Two…

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın, Prof. Dr. Çağrı Erhan ve Dr. Nihat Ali Özcan tarafından hazırlanan Görünmeyenler programı, 2004-2008 yılları arasında SKY TÜRK TV’de pazar sabahları canlı ve Salı akşamları banttan yayımlanmıştır. 

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın, Prof. Dr. Çağrı Erhan ve Dr. Nihat Ali Özcan tarafından hazırlanan Görünmeyenler programı, 2004-2008 yılları arasında SKY TÜRK TV’de pazar sabahları canlı ve Salı akşamları banttan yayımlanmıştır.

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın, Prof. Dr. Çağrı Erhan ve Dr. Nihat Ali Özcan tarafından hazırlanan Görünmeyenler programı, 2004-2008 yılları arasında SKY TÜRK TV’de pazar sabahları canlı ve Salı akşamları banttan yayımlanmıştır.

Reference: Aydın, Mustafa and Sinem Akgül Açıkmeşe (2006) "Special Issue on Redefining Regional Security in Wider Europe and the Broader Middle East", Perceptions, Vol. X, No. 3.

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