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Title: Climate Reality: A Challenge Pushing the Countries to Cooperate
Authors: Katarína Hazuchová
Date: December 2013Title: A Turkish Perspective on Security Issues in the Mediterranean
Authors: Şadi Ergüvenç
Date: April 2013Title: A New Paradigm? Prospects and Challenges for U.S. Global Leadership
Authors: Tural Ahmadov
Date: December 2012Title: EU's Readmission Agreement and Visa Liberalization Talks with Turkey: Backing up Turkey's Protracted Way to the EU
Authors: Lenka Peťková
Date: August 2012Title: Egypt: The Marriage of Islamism and the System
Authors: Cengiz Günay
Date: May 2012Title: Turkey's Standing in Gas Pipeline Games
Authors: Olgu Okumuş
Date: March 2012Title: Prospects for Global Growth in 2012
Authors: Onur Bayramoğlu
Date: March 2012Title: Gold Exchange Standard in its 40th Year of Abolition: Jacques Rueff Re-Visited
Authors: Onur Bayramoğlu
Date: March 2012Title: How Verbal Threats to Close Oil Transit Chokepoints Lead to Military Conflict
Authors: John Bowlus
Date: January 2012Title: Turkey's 2000/1 Banking Crisis: A Case Study for the Transformation of the Greek Finance?
Authors: Onur Bayramoğlu
Date: August 2011Title: The Political Feasibility of the Istanbul Canal Project
Authors: Mensur Akgün, Sylvia Tiryaki
Date: August 2011Title: Where Do We Stand in the Field of Nuclear Disarmament: What Is Next After the New START
Authors: Nurşin Ateşoğlu Güney
Date: June 2011Title: The Turkish Internal Reform and Foreign Policy Shift: Implications for the Cyprus Talks
Authors: Chrysostomos Pericleous
Date: June 2011Title: EU's Rejection of Turkey: The Real Underlying Reason
Authors: Yalım Eralp
Date: April 2011Title: The Present and Future of Turkey's Membership Negotiations with the EU
Authors: Cengiz Aktar
Date: October 2010Title: Individual Rights Versus Collective Rights
Authors: Yalım Eralp
Date: August 2010Title: Elections in Afghanistan
Authors: Yalim Eralp
Date: June 2010Title: Debt, Deficits, & Defense: A Way Forward
Date: June 2010Title: Turkey's Geopolitical Assertiveness: Re-evaluating the balance of power in terms of political and economic leverage in Southeastern Europe, the Middle East, and the Caspian Region
Authors: Dimitris Rapidis
Date: May 2010Title: The Bermuda Triangle: Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia
Authors: Yalım Eralp
Date: May 2010Title: Turkish-Chinese Relations in the Shadow of the Uyghur Problem
Authors: Faith Furtun
Date: January 2010Title: The Kurdish Question: The process and the grave mistakes by the Governments
Authors: Yalim Eralp
Date: October 2009Title: Iran, the Bomb and Turkey
Authors: Yalim Eralp
Date: October 2009Title: Turkiye
Authors: Menekse Tokyay
Date: June 2009Title: Suing for Sovereignty: Property, Territory, and the EU's Cyprus Problem
Authors: Rebecca Bryant, Mete Hatay
Date: June 2009Title: After the European Parliament Elections: The Achilles Heel of the Democracy
Authors: Menekse Tokyay
Date: June 2009Title: A Vision for the Centennial of Our Republic
Authors: Sadi Erguvene
Date: May 2009Title: What is a Nation?
Authors: Ingmar Karlsson
Date: March 2009Title: Some Recommendations Following the Gaza Operation and the Israeli Elections
Authors: Bora Bayraktar, Can Yirik
Date: March 2009Title: President Obama's Speech in Cairo: A new climate of hope on the world scene
Authors: Ozdem Sanberk
Date: March 2009Title: Perspectives on Better Global Economic Governance
Authors: Kemal Dervis
Date: March 2009Title: The United Nations Security Council and Turkey
Authors: Yalim Eralp
Date: January 2009