Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics

This article is about that nationalist ideology and ethnic conflict issue. The modern world system consists of nation states for that reason ethnic and nationalist disputes are quite significant. Moreover, disagreements about it create a threat for human life and the state to unity and its integrity. Today, around the…

• FİLİZ KATMAN

(1994). The Balkan pact and its immediate implications for the Balkan states, 1930–34. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 123-144.

• MUSTAFA TÜRKEŞ

This article aims to show how and why Armeno-Turkish, or Ottoman Turkish written in Armenian letters, especially throughout the nineteenth century, was not merely an Armenian phenomenon but rather a cultural reflection of a larger Ottoman history. The article begins with a critique of the literature on the Ottoman mil…

• MURAT CANKARA

Crimean Tatars were deported by Stalin from Crimea to Central Asia in 1944. This paper focuses on the Crimean Tatars’ cultural revival, beginning in 1989 following their mass return to their homeland. We analyse the interaction of the Crimean Tatars with other ethnic groups both in Central Asia during the deportation…

Ankara at the end of World War II was a grim palimpsest—the remains of an Ottoman provincial city peeked through the republic’s modernist dreams, and upon them both had accumulated new layers of migrant poverty and coal smoke. Turkey had not been bombed or devastated by mass slaughter and war, but it was poorly armed,…

• ONUR İŞÇİ

This book explores the formation of the Baghdad Pact and Anglo-American defence policies in the Middle East, 1950-1959. It determines the aims with which the pact was established; the failings of the pact, and the struggle that was undertaken against it by hostile countries. It examines the events surrounding the form…

Contributors Nihad Dostović, Stevo Đurašković, Ildiko Erdei, Ahmet Ersoy, Maciej Górny, Rigels Halili, Nikola Iordanovski, Hamza Karčić, Vangelis Kechriotis, Ohannes Kılıçdağı, Michal Kopeček, Pavol Lukáč, Boyan Manchev, Mateja Ratej, Funda Soysal, Maria Todorova, Balázs Trencsényi, Marius Turda Consultants Bojan Alek…

Critical geopolitics provides ways of looking at the world and questioning the role of geopolitics in foreign policymaking processes, as opposed to accepting them as objective and natural. From this theoretical perspective, this article aims to apply critical geopolitics to the case of Turkish-American relations with…

• AYŞE ÖMÜR ATMACA

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• ÇAĞRI ERHAN

Abstract This forum, curated by Michael Goebel (Freie Univ. Berlin), brings together twelve historians who draw on their own areas of specialization to rethink how we conceptualize the history of nationalism in our present moment of reactivated and often militant nationalist rhetoric.

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The paper evaluates misconceptions of the so‐called transitologists in terms of the relationship between nationalism and democracy in the post‐Soviet Central Asian context. The analysis looks at only four of the five Central Asian republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The paper puts forward t…