Turkey’s contemporary defense and military strategy can be best understood as a result of the historical process the country has experienced. This historical process has significantly altered the security environment surrounding Turkey while transforming her alliance relations, ultimately producing a new political vision for the country and a defense and military strategy that serves this vision.Firstly, although the end of the Cold War and the ensuing dissolution of the Soviet Uni...

In the course of our journey through this book we shall study the revelations of the Quran, a journey that will take us from the bottom of the sea to the heights of space, from the creation of the universe to the latest discovery on the firmament, from the embryo to the life of bees and from the most probing questions of philosophy to the most complicated problems of physics. In this expedition we shall try to assess the unbelievers' contention that "The Quran is the word of a human" as op...

Besides too many political problems in the MENA region, many economic issues affect the region’s stability remarkably. The trade deficit problem is one of these economic issues. When we exclude petroleum exports, almost all the countries in the region have a deficit; in other words, they import more than their exports, and they commonly struggle to find foreign funds to finance this deficit. Because many countries in the region have big political crises and domestic wars like those in Syri...

Insight Turkey’in Yeni Sayısı Yayınlandı!Insight Turkey'in bu sayısı, üç yorum ve üç araştırma makalesinden oluşan zengin bir çerçeveyle çevre güvenliğinin boyutlarına ve bunların uluslararası politikaya etkilerine odaklanmaktadır. Geçmişteki tüm özel konularımızda olduğu gibi, Türkiye'nin çevresel değişimin zararlı etkilerini azaltmaya yönelik politika çabalarına odaklandık.Jeopolitik ve çevre güvenliği arasındaki bağı açıklamak için Peter Hough'un yorumu, Kuzey Kutbu'ndak...

With extensive international changes taking place in the last three decades, such as the collapse of the bipolar world system, the dismemberment of the Soviet Union, the declining hegemony of the U.S., the lack of global leadership, and the rise of challenging global powers, like any other regional power, Turkey has initiated a comprehensive conceptual and theoretical transformation and a process of restructuring in its foreign policy understanding. Turkey has gone beyond the typical reali...

In the course of our journey through this book we shall study the revelations of the Quran, a journey that will take us from the bottom of the sea to the heights of space, from the creation of the universe to the latest discovery on the firmament, from the embryo to the life of bees and from the most probing questions of philosophy to the most complicated problems of physics. In this expedition we shall try to assess the unbelievers' contention that "The Quran is the word of a human" as op...

Insight Turkey’in bu sayısı, İslam karşıtı faaliyetlerin yeniden canlandığı ve Müslümanların seslerinin kısıldığı bir dönemde, dünya çapında İslam karşıtı uygulamaları kapsayan dört yorum ve altı araştırma makalesi ileokuyucularına kapsamlı ve zengin bir çerçeve sunmayı amaçlamaktadır.James Carr, çağdaş neoliberal medenileştirme misyonlarının parçası olmayı reddeden Müslümanları nasıl cezalandırdığına dair kapsamlı bir analiz sunarken, Marcelo Macedo Rizo, Müslümanlara yön...

Once upon a time the king of İstanbul, Constantine used to worship fire. Greek historians explain his conversion to Christianity in that way:One day Constantine caught leprosy. The skin and the hair of the poor man fell out and every part of his body had in bruises.He sent messengers to all of the skillful doctors in his country in order to find a cure to his disease.Many eminent doctors came to his palace and examined the king. No matter how hard they tried they co...

Ever since the dawn of human life on this planet, Man has always sought to understand Nature, his own place in the scheme of Creation and the purpose of Life itself. In this quest for Truth, spanning many centuries and diverse civilizations, organized religion has shaped human life and determined to a large extent, the course of history. While some religions have been based on books, claimed by their adherents to be divinely inspired, others have relied solely on human experience.A...

Why do politicians think that war is the answer to terror when military intervention in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Mali, Somalia and elsewhere has made things worse? Why do some conflicts never end? And how is it that practices like beheadings, extra-judicial killings, the bombing of hospitals and schools and sexual slavery are becoming increasingly common?In this book, renowned scholar of war and human security Mary Kaldor introduces the concept of global security culture...

Atheism Explained explores the claims made both for and against the existence of God. On the pro side: that the wonders of the world can only be explained by an intelligent creator; that the universe had to start somewhere; telepathy, out-of-body experiences, and other paranormal phenomena demonstrate the existence of a spirit world; and that those who experience God directly provide evidence as real as any physical finding. After disputing these arguments through calm, careful cr...