CIAO DATE: 02/2010
Volume: 6, Issue: 22
Fall 2009
Homeros'dan Hobbes ve Ötesine: "Güvenlik" Kavramının Avrupa Geleneğindeki Boyutları (PDF)
J. Frederik M. Arends
This article examines the historical development of the concept of security in two phases. In the first phase, the word coined by the Romans as ‘securitas’ and accompanied from the beginning by ambivalence and religious connotations had conceded most of its territory to ‘certitudo’ at the end of the Middle Ages. In the second phase starting in the times of Thomas Hobbes, it became one of the paradigmatic ‘great words’ of the modern state. In this phase, ‘security’ became associated with the genesis of the authoritarian ‘super state’ committed to the prevention of civil war. This article starts by elaborating the connection between Thomas Hobbes and the ancient Greek historian Thucydides and proceeds by examining the usages of the concept by several contemporary authors.
Didem Ekinci
While fully engaged in efforts of suppressing the armed violence in the former Yugoslavia at the turn of the century, Ankara could foresee the coming events, repeatedly called for immediate multilateral action, and argued adamantly about who the aggressor and victim were as opposed to the relevant ambiguity in the West. Central to policy formulations at political parties were Turkey’s Balkan heritage/identity, stance against aggression, and the significance of Balkan routes for Turkey. Drawing upon detailed empirical data obtained from parliamentary discussions in three frames, this study examines under which circumstances the Turkish ‘state’, its identity, interests and intersubjectivities were at work shaping Turkey’s foreign policy towards Bosnia. Finally, it is emphasized that Ankara’s foreign policy towards the war was competent despite coalition governments composed of different political mainstreams.
Ozan Değer
ABSTRACT
Crime of Genocide and State Responsibility: Judgment of the International Court of Justice on Bosnia-Herzegovina v. Serbia-Montenegro Case
Genocide, as an act and a violation of law, place at the top of the hierarchy of crimes and is qualified as crime of crimes. Essentially, being evaluated within the frame of international law, this crime gradually has been come within the scope of the national law. Either the conception or the crime of genocide was composed because of the massacres executed during the WWII, mainly. The basic legal arrangement about the crime was passed at 9 December 1948 and come into effect at 12 January 1951 named United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Convention is obliged the states on the prevention and the punishment of the crime of genocide. Since international criminal courts/tribunals are restricted by the principle of individual criminal responsibility and the Convention incurs the obligation on states, the violation of the Convention causes the responsibility of states. This article, under the light of the conceptional and legal frame, discusses the obligations and responsibilities incur by the Convention and the dramatic judgment of the ICJ, in short, the place and situation of crime of genocide and state responsibility at the legal texts and international jurisprudences.
Türkiye Kamuoyu ve Avrupa Birliği 2001- 2008: Beklentiler, İstekler ve Korkular (PDF)
Özgehan Şenyuva
ABSTRACT
Public Opinion of Turkey and European Union 2001-2008: Expectations, Requests, and Apprehensions
This study examines general trends of Turkish public opinion towards the European Union between 2001 and 2008. It uses the Euro Barometer data of the European Commission. The main research question focuses on overtime stability of the support for Turkey’s membership to the EU. In parallel to the support for membership, the main contours of Turkish public perceptions towards EU and European identity are also examined. When the main attitudes towards the EU between 200 and 2008 are analyzed, it appears that the EU is significantly losing its credibility and support among Turkish citizens. The support for Turkish membership is also in decline and going through major fluctuations.
Çınar Özen, Yelda Demirağ, Ahmet Tetik
Montenegro launched a large-scale military attack on Northern Albania and the Sancak border region in 1912. Many writers have analyzed this military operation in the framework of the border disputes between Montenegro and Ottoman State as their borders were not clearly established by the Berlin Treaty (June 13-July 13 1878) According to this view, the fighting that took place had a limited scale and scope. Our study is based on the material at the Ottoman Ministry of War archives. The documents assert that the said fighting was widespread and violent. The main argument of this work is that this military operation of Montenegro was not of limited scope, and the result of reacting to immediate challenges, but was a war which went beyond border skirmishes. Especially the Montenegrin operation which began at the end of July was a planned, large-scale, and violent military operation. This study is based on the idea that Montenegro started this fight upon the successful conclusion of Serbian-Bulgarian negotiations and when a Balkan War became imminent at the beginning of 1912, in order to achieve gains and to anticipate Serbia.
The Tulip Revolution: Kyrgyzstan One Year After (PDF)
Erica Marat
Washington D.C., Jamestown Foundation, Mart 2006, 151 sayfa.
978-0967500973
Kimlik Adına Öldürmek: Kanlı Çatışmalar Üzerine Bir şnceleme (PDF)
Vamık D. VOLKAN
(Çev. Medine Banu BÜYÜKKAL)
şstanbul, Everest Yayınları, Eylül 2007, 353 sayfa.
ISBN:9752894358