Search results for: Mark S. Cogan
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Ticking Clocks: Erdoğan and Turkey’s Constitutional Referendum
...Whatever the outcome, the Turkish constitutional referendum on April 16 will not resolve the country’s chronic domestic instability, heal its deepening social divisions, revive its flagging economy or end...
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A Reflection on U.S. Grand Strategy: Trump and the Challenge for South Korean Diplomacy
...the early Cold War era. Put forward in July 1969, the Nixon Doctrine signaled a marked turning point in U.S. strategy. Initiating the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam, the...
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Myths and Mysteries: Six months on from Turkey’s Curious Coup
...Six months after the failed coup of July 15, 2016, many questions still remain unanswered. Disturbingly, most can no longer be asked. Amid the purges, imprisonments and oppression, Turkey...
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Turkey is Expecting a Restart with the U.S.
...Turkish ground troops. This has led to new question marks in the United States and Europe regarding Turkey’s future strategic orientation. But Cavuşoğlu dismissed all talk of Turkey “tilting” away...
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China’s March West: Pitfalls and Challenges in Greater Central Asia
...a pivotal position within the Silk Road Economic Belt of trade and transportation corridors which will potentially connect China to markets in Europe. Projections of the initiative’s cost range from...
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Assassination in Ankara: Russia, NATO, and Turkey’s Violent Politics
...Aleppo, and he is the latest in a string of right-wing terrorists in Turkey whose acts have served to draw Ankara back toward the West. Less than two weeks after...
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Xi Jinping’s Foreign Policy toward North Korea
Proceedings from the 2016 NAJAKS Conference at Stockholm University, Nordic Association of Japanese and Korean Studies.
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Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict: 2015-Present
...Turkey’s Kurds. This could be seen as a herald for the conflict that was triggered not a year later with the Suruç bombing, which marks the turning point in recent...
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Azerbaijan’s Formula: Secular Governance and Civic Nationhood
...than more separation between religion and state; and toward more ethnic rather than civic conceptions of nationhood. This trend has been particularly pronounced in two powers with whom Azerbaijan is...
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The “Logic” of Turkey’s Repression
...the coup attempt it is imperative to restore the authority of the state, and to undo the political gains of the Kurdish movement. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is seconded by...