Search results for: Svante E. Cornell
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Is Turkey Becoming a Banana Republic?
...The failed military coup in Turkey provides a window into just how unstable and vulnerable Turkey has become. The coup is a unique but not isolated event, more than...
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A botched coup and Turkey’s descent into madness
...not people on the street, was the key reason the coup failed. Not least, it allowed President Erdogan to slip out of Marmaris before being caught and to get to...
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The Fallacy of ‘Compartmentalisation’: the West and Russia from Ukraine to Syria
...In the post-Soviet space as well as the Middle East, Western leaders have largely failed to heed ample evidence that the goals of the Russian leadership are fundamentally opposed...
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Vladimir Putin’s Next European Front
...military coup. But experts believe that the relationship between Ankara and Washington is now in a fragile state, which could boil over into the fight against the militant group, commonly...
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Asserting Statehood: Kazakhstan’s Role in International Organizations
...multilateral relations have always expressed a clear logic: to establish itself as a reliable and constructive international actor. The core of this strategy has been to create several foreign policy...
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The EU, Central Asia, and the Development of Continental Transport and Trade
...Since the collapse of the USSR, a number of initiatives have embarked, separately or together, on the momentous task of rebuilding trade and transportation arteries across Central Asia and...
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Turkey Transformed: The Origins and Evolution of Authoritarianism and Islamization Under the AKP
...an election did not mean losing power. From the presidential palace, the AKP’s de facto leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has ensured that no other political force is given a chance...
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The Rise of Diyanet: the Politicization of Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs
...by the Turkish state to exercise oversight over religious affairs, is now firmly under the control of President Erdoğan, and has turned into a supersized government bureaucracy for the promotion...
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The Islamization of Turkey: Erdoğan’s Education Reforms
...The growing efforts at Islamization of Turkish society have largely gone unnoticed. For many years, Islamization was the dog that did not bark: in spite of dire predictions by...
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Erdogan’s Approaching Downfall—and a Kurdish Revolution
...On June 7, Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, experienced his first electoral defeat—and a stinging one at that, his Justice and Development party (AKP) losing ten points and its...