Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü: Recent submissions
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Contemporary Interventions and Regionalism: The Cases of Ukraine and Venezuela
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)The international domain is characterized by diverse interventionist policies, wherein conflicts that escalate beyond the control of a nation often attract external intervention from neighbouring states, regional powers, ... -
Mass Atrocity Crimes in the Middle East and the Implementation of the Responsibility to Protect: The cases of Syria, Yemen and Gaza
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has been the subject of intense debates on how the international community should act in the face of mass atrocities. Particularly in conflict zones such as the Middle East region, the ... -
Transition of Traditional and Public Diplomacy in the Age of Digitalization
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)The landscape of international relations has continuously been transformed and influenced by abundant factors, paving the way for shifts in diplomatic practices. However, recently, the pace of change in conduct of diplomacy ... -
The Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline: Initiatives for Regional Cooperation
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)The Caspian Sea is home to vast energy resources. In recognition of the vast importance of energy and supply security, the riparian states have attempted to finalize the delimitation process and bring the discussions ... -
The Concept of Border from Critical Geopolitical Perspective: An Analysis of the US-Mexico Border during Donald Trump Period
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)The world is divided into different geographical spaces, but some territories have symbolic meanings beyond their geographical location. These meanings reflect certain power relations and the relationship between knowledge ... -
Women in Israeli Army in the Context of Gender, Militarization and Nation- Building
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024)In Israel, soldiers are seen as the embodiment of what it means to be Israeli, both in terms of providing physical protection and representing the community as a whole. This is the source of a sense of belonging that creates ... -
Identity and Foreign Policy: The U.S. Perception of China
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024-06-06)Social constructivism argues that in process of foreign policy making, as well as material factors and capabilities, ideational forces, and social structures such as identity and discourses constitute an important aspect ... -
Analysis of Greece’s Activities in Western Anatolia within the scope of Strategic Intelligence (1919-1924)
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2024-06-07)This thesis aims to analyze the activities of Greece during the occupation of Anatolia from the perspective of strategic intelligence. The real motivation behind the military and political moves of the Greek authorities ... -
Evolution of the Notion of Human Security and Japanese Human SecurityUnderstanding(s)
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)Since the publication of the Human Development Report in 1994, the concept of human security has been a topic of ongoing discussion in the international community. It has continued to evolve until the publication of the ... -
Achieving The Goal of Nuclear Disarmament: Limitations of Structural Realism and Contributions of Social Constructivism
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)The pursuit of nuclear disarmament has been a complex and contentious issue in international relations, shaped by competing strategies. This thesis examines how normative shifts influenced by constructivist ideas have ... -
A Comparative Analysis of the Three Dimensions Of China’s Belt and Road Initiative Through Classical Geopolitical Theories
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)The Belt Road Initiative (BRI) is an infrastructure project launched by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) designed to increase connectivity across the world through the construction of ports, airports, railways, highways, ... -
Foreign Policy Behaviors of Middle Powers Under Different International Systems: The Case of the South China Sea Dispute
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)This thesis aims to provide a comprehensive explanation to the behaviors exhibited by middle powers in the South China Sea Dispute. By employing the thematic analysis method and middle power theory, the objective is to ... -
Non-Western Challenges to Eurocentrism: the case of Chinese IR
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)The Eurocentric nature of the IR discipline has been discussed recently. Scholars criticize Eurocentrism for being unable to understand and analyze the problems of the non-Western world. Therefore, many studies attribute ... -
An Analysis of Russian Foreign Policy During Yeltsins Era From A Neo-classical Realist Perspective
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)Relations between Russia and United States of America (USA) changed in the post-Cold War period because Russian foreign policy came to an impasse by colliding interests with the USA and the economic, political and ... -
The "Endless" Syrian War: An Assessment
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)With the end of the Cold War, while non-state actors gained importance in international relations, humanitarian crises, environmental problems, and civil wars began to become important. Although civil wars have often been ... -
Identity in Russian Foreign Policy Towards Ukraine
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2023)This thesis analyzes the identity transformations that Russia has been going through in the post-Cold War period in connection with internal, external, and historical factors, and the role these transformations played in ... -
The Evolution of Arab Political Identity in the Context of Arab Spring: A Social Constructivist Perspective
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022-09-15)Arab political identity, despite its different paths of development, has emerged and evolved depending on the social and historical context and manifested through discourse. Among different ideological currents, Arab ... -
Transformation And Continuity In German Foreign Policy From The End Of The Cold War To Present
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)According to the Constructivist IR theory, the most basic factors affecting a state’s behaviour are ideas, perceptions and interests. However, at this point, by a constructivist structure, interests are associated with ... -
It Takes Two To Tango! An Analysıs Of The Eu’s Faıled Democracy Promotıon Efforts In Serbıa
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022-06-28)This thesis aims to provide a sufficient explanation for the failure of democracy promotion efforts in Serbia. Through employing process-tracing method and constructivist theory, the goal is to identify the reasons behind ... -
Sub-Imperıalısm And The Mıddle East: Saudı Arabıa’s Regıonal Polıcy In The Post-Cold War Perıod
(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2022)The sub-imperialism theory refers to the policies of a group of dependent capitalist states which are capable of exporting their capital outside of their borders with their relatively independent policy despite of their ...
