Russia and Soviet political economy

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• EMRE ERŞEN
• MİTAT ÇELİKPALA

This study examines the role of oil and gas in the making of Kazakhstan's foreign policy. It argues that Kazakhstan has been following a multi-vector foreign policy in relation to its oil-led development and the geopolitics of exporting oil from this landlocked region. The significance of geopolitical considerations a…

• PINAR İPEK

From an offensive realist theoretical approach, this paper assumes that great powers are always looking for opportunities to attain more power in order to feel more secure. This outlook has led me to assert that the main objective of the US grand strategy in the twenty-first century is primacy or global hegemony. I ha…

• EMRE İŞERİ

Abstract The Russian government saw the 2008 global financial crisis as both a repudiation of western neoliberalism and as an ideal opportunity to promote its own international economic leadership. Russia's alternative vision encompasses multipolarity, financial nationalism and political illiberalism. These policies a…

• SEÇKİN KÖSTEM

Situated at the crossroads between Europe and Asia as well as Russia and the Middle East, the Black Sea is more than a region of local strategic significance, representing an axis of increasing geo‐political importance to the European Union. With its mosaic of problems, the wider Black Sea region is one of the more im…

In many ways, the political and economic history of modern Turkey has been an attempt to catch up with, or adapt to, the developments in the rest of Europe. These attempts have gained an especial momentum since 1980. Substantial changes have taken place in the Turkish economy since 1980 with respect to the basic econo…

This article examines Azerbaijan's foreign policy by demonstrating the interplay between the oil-led development process and early post-independence regional conflicts that enforced a Western orientation in the country's foreign policy. It is argued that geopolitics continue to prevail in the strategic goals of Azerba…

The economic dimensions of the 2008–2010 financial crisis and its implications for the American-led international economic system on the basis of the US dollar have attracted a lot of attention amo...

• EMRE İŞERİ

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• GİZEM AKBULUT YILDIZ

Th e aim of this article is to analyze the process of post-Soviet transformation in Azerbaijan while focusing on the process of democratization, peculiarities of the leadership and political elite, success and failure in electoral politics, and development of civil society. I argue that the politics of the post-indepe…

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• OSMAN CENK KANCA

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