Posted by Acturca in France, History / Histoire, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie, USA / Etats-Unis.
Tags: border, Iraq, ISIS, Ottoman Empire, Sean McMeekin, soft power, Sykes-Picot Agreement, Syria, World War I
Los Angeles Times (USA) Sunday, March 22, 2015, p. 18
By Sean McMeekin *
Control of territory in the Middle East comes through force, as Islamic State reminds us. With a massive invasion by U.S. ground troops ruled out — for now — the debate in Washington over what to do about Islamic State militants has shifted into the realm of diplomacy and “soft power.” (suite…)
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie, Turkey-EU / Turquie-UE.
Tags: AKP, Euxeinos, foreign policy, Middle East, Selcen Öner, soft power, Turkey, Turkey-EU
Euxeinos (GCE-HSG) 10/2013, pp. 7-15
Issue: Strategic Depth through Soft Power: The Domestic Production and International Projection of Turkish Culture
by Selcen Öner *

During the Cold War era and in the 1990s as well, Turkey was considered mostly as a “hard power” because of the high influence of its military in politics and deficiencies in its democracy and human rights. In the first decade of the 21st century several internal and external developments have positively contributed to Turkey’s “soft power”. (suite…)
Posted by Acturca in Turkey / Turquie, Turkey-EU / Turquie-UE.
Tags: AKP, CES, EU enlargement, foreign policy, Gerald Knaus, Manfred Scheich, military, soft power, Svante Cornell, The Centre for European Studies, Turkey, Turkey-EU, Turkey’s EU accession process
The Centre for European Studies (CES) October 2012, 124 p.
S. Cornell, G. Knaus, M. Scheich
Turkey’s growing assertiveness on the international stage, difficulties with EU accession, rapidly rising economy, and the long and controversial reign of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) are all necessitating a need for analysis. (suite…)
Posted by Acturca in Turkey / Turquie.
Tags: Africa, foreign policy, soft power, Somalia, Turkey
Reuters (UK) June 3, 2012
By Richard Lough, Mogadishu
In a sprawl of plastic refugee shelters and mortar-blasted buildings in Mogadishu, a mud-caked Turkish engineering team monitors the drilling of a new borehole while their armed guards chat lazily under a tree, guns across laps. (suite…)
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie, USA / Etats-Unis.
Tags: Brazil, foreign policy, Henri J. Barkey, Johanna Mendelson, Middle East, soft power, South America, Turkey, Turkey / Turquie, USA
The Miami Herald (USA) Wednesday, 04.04.12
By Henri J. Barkey and Johanna Mendelson *
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff arrives in Washington on Monday. Her meeting with President Obama is a reminder of how much international relations have changed during the last decade. (suite…)
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Acturca Journal and Periodical Review, February 2012
Compiled by Ozan Yigitkeskin
Acturca Journal Watch monitors leading scholarly journals for articles of particular interest to scholars of diplomacy, foreign relations, and international history on Turkey. It is updated monthly. (suite…)
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.
Tags: China, foreign policy, interview, Iran, Middle East, soft power, Syria, Tom Wheeler, Turkey, Turkey / Turquie
Voice of Russia, Feb 26, 2012
Kudashkina Ekaterina
Interview with Tom Wheeler – former South African Ambassador to Turkey and currently a research associate at the South African Institute of International Affairs. (suite…)
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Acturca Journal and Periodical Review, January 2012
Compiled by Ozan Yigitkeskin
Acturca Journal Watch monitors leading scholarly journals for articles of particular interest to scholars of diplomacy, foreign relations, and international history on Turkey. It is updated monthly. (suite…)
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Acturca Journal and Periodical Review, May 2011
Compiled by Ozan Yigitkeskin
Acturca Journal Watch monitors leading scholarly journals for articles of particular interest to scholars of diplomacy, foreign relations, and international history on Turkey. It is updated monthly. (suite…)
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Acturca Journal and Periodical Review, December 2009
Compiled by Ozan Yigitkeskin
Acturca Journal Watch monitors leading scholarly journals for articles of particular interest to scholars of diplomacy, foreign relations, and international history on Turkey. It is updated monthly. (suite…)