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Visions for Economic Sustainability at a Time of Uncertainty
Vol. 14 No. 2 - Summer 2015
Foreword, Summer 2015
Monday, September 14, 2015
This issue of TPQ comes to you at the end of a tumultuous summer for Turkey and the region. The June 7 parliamentary elections seemed to herald the beginning of a new era; the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) passed the 10 percent election...
Turkish Policy Quarterly
Monaco: A Distinctive, Enduring Model, Summer 2015
Monday, September 14, 2015
When visitors travel to Monaco they often ask what is Monaco’s secret. In fact, there are no secrets or mysteries. This article will delve into the distinctive qualities that lend to Monaco’s success. The first key, which is obvious...
Michel Roger
Interview with Amos Hochstein: Energy Security, Russia, & the LNG Boom, Summer 2015
Monday, September 14, 2015
The cancellation of South Stream has led Russia to explore several new pipeline projects including Turkish Stream. Does Russia have the capacity to actualize these projects, and how might it play into the competition/showdown between Russia and the...
Amos Hochstein
Advanced Manufacturing as the Key to Sustainability, Summer 2015
Monday, September 14, 2015
Sustainable development has become synonymous with efforts to secure the present and future of humanity and the planet at large. In essence, sustainable development produces lasting economic prosperity and social value while simultaneously...
İhsan Necipoğlu
Hacking the Wealth of Nations: Managing Markets Amid Malware, Summer 2015
Monday, September 14, 2015
The rise of cybersecurity as a policy challenge is a multifaceted global phenomenon. States debate how the security of digital technologies affects cyberspace, geopolitics, armed conflict, international law, and human rights. Cybersecurity has also...
David P. Fidler
The US, the EU, and Turkey: Now What?, Summer 2015
Monday, September 14, 2015
The collapse of coalition talks and the scheduling of new elections for November 1st are the latest developments in a tumultuous summer for Turkey. As we started writing this article, the first news came that Turkey would open its airbase at İncirlik...
Nate Schenkkan
David J. Kramer
Cleaning Up World Soccer Governance, Summer 2015
Monday, September 14, 2015
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) President Sepp Blatter has used his last months in office to ensure that proposed reform of the troubled world soccer body would address widespread concern about financial...
James M. Dorsey
A Holistic Model to Empower Humanity, Summer 2015
Monday, September 14, 2015
It is time we embrace what unites all of us and it is time we celebrate what empowers us. It is time we imagine holistic models that both unite and empower everyone at the same time. I have stumbled upon a “model” by coincidence. In this...
D. Hakan Habip
Coal’s Not Cool: Energy & Turkey’s Reputation, Summer 2015
Monday, September 14, 2015
When international leaders meet in Paris in December this year, they will not only decide on international climate policy. They will also negotiate the world’s energy future. Fossil fuel combustion is responsible for roughly two-thirds of past...
Jörn Richert
Turkey’s Visa Policy: A Migration-Mobility Nexus, Summer 2015
Monday, September 14, 2015
Turkey’s migration policies are in the spotlight today due to the fact the country is hosting the largest number of refugees in the world. As of 30 June 2015, Turkey hosts an estimated two million refugees, mostly Syrian and Iraqi,...
Meral Açıkgöz
Can Turkey Foster Regional Stability Under UNCLOS?, Summer 2015
Monday, September 14, 2015
Since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey has had a mistrust of maritime powers, and maritime commerce in general.[1] This attitude is a consequence of numerous naval defeats against the more advanced European naval powers, losses that had...
Julian Kubilay Falkenberg
How Far Is Turkey From a Mearsheimerian Tragedy?, Summer 2015
Monday, September 14, 2015
It is broadly accepted that Turkey occupies a geopolitically significant position. Its simultaneous access to different peripheries, as well as its subsequent multidimensional role, have led the country to be named “a pivotal state”[1]...
Markos Troulis
Carbon Emissions Development in China, Summer 2015
Monday, September 14, 2015
Despite challenges, China is the first developing country already utilizing a cap-and-trade mechanism for emissions reductions in its energy-intensive sectors in selected regions. Turkey is also considering emissions trading in its own energy sector....
Maosheng Duan
Qian Wu
Rıza Kadılar
BOOK REVIEW - Thieves Of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
Monday, September 14, 2015
In Thieves of State, Sarah Chayes makes a novel and provocative argument for why governments must pay greater attention to acute corruption, by linking corruption with violent extremism.[1] In her various guises as former National Public Radio (NPR)...
Varun Piplani
TPQ EVENT ANALYSIS - Turkey’s Social Media Landscape
Monday, September 14, 2015
The subject of social media freedoms in Turkey first surfaced in a widespread way during and in the aftermath of the Gezi Park protests in 2013. The protests were characterized by the instrumental use of social media to express dissent and to call...
Turkish Policy Quarterly
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FROM THE DESK OF THE EDITOR
The publication of this issue on Future for Europe marks a new milestone for TPQ. The journal was founded in 2002 and we celebrated its 20th anniversary with the last issue on Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Values. Among many academics and AI policy professionals, it was considered a landmark publication. Turkish Policy Quarterly (TPQ) now has a new identity as Transatlantic Policy...
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Comparing the Ethnopolitical Status of Ethnic Minorities in Post-Communist Eastern Europe: Russians in Latvia and Hungarians in Romania
Aybars Arda Kılıçer
The MOU for Gas Sales from Israel to Europe: Meanings and Implications
Michael Harari
New University Model: Higher Education's Role Against the Backlash of a Middle-Income Trap
Mustafa Ergen
Nuclear energy: An Alternative to Russian Gas?
Lorenzo Somigli
Turkey as a Mediator Power in the Russian Aggression to Ukraine
Nadija Afanasieva
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