GLOBALIZATION TRENDS : CONSIDERATIONS AND THE ROLE OF THE UNITED NATIONS by Boutros Boutros-Ghali

In the 1970s, I was asked by my government to direct a centre similar to the Centre for Strategic Research in Ankara. This was a centre just like yours. A centre where, in all freedom, academics and diplomats, professors and politicians, could meet to analyse Egypt's foreign policy and to debate its future orientation.......

TURKEY'S SECURITY CHALLANGES by Nezihi Çakar

In this post-Cold War era, Turkey finds itself neighbouring regional instabilities and uncertainties. While a new European security architecture and, more generally, a new world order is developing, Turkey's vital role in world affairs, played out over the last 70 years, has not declined, as some circles thought it would after the demise of the USSR, but become considerably magnified.......

AZERBAIJANI OIL : GLIMPSES OF LONG HISTORY by Sabit Bagirov

This article is intended to introduce to the reader some of the major events in Azerbaijan's oil industry and to what is going on in this small country rich in mineral resources. This article does not claim full coverage and analysis of all the important and instructive events that have happened in Azerbaijan, both since its independence five years ago and before......

RUSSIA AND THE CAUCASUS by Paul B.Henze

It took the Russian tsars more than two hundred years to conquer the Caucasus. They began the effort at the end of the sixteenth century. They did not complete it until the 1860s. Russia's expansion into the Caucasus was classic imperialism, like the British conquest of India and the French expansion into North and Sub-Saharan Africa...... 

RUSSIA AND THE CAUCASUS : MAINTAINING THE IMBALANCE OF POWER
by David Nissman

Russia's expansion to the south and subsequent need to fortify and protect its borders in the Transcaucasus has been a primary feature of Russian policy for two centuries. That Russian insecurity about its borders intensified during the twentieth century is proven by the Soviet-Iranian Treaty of 1921 which subsequently permitted the Soviet Union to extend even farther:.....

WATER ISSUES BETWEEN TURKEY, SYRIA AND IRAQ

A STUDY BY THE TURKISH MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF REGIONAL AND TRANSBOUNDARY WATERS
Water has come to the forefront as a problem in relations between the countries of the Middle East in the recent years. It also occupies an important place on the agenda of several international organisations. The main characteristics of the problem may be expressed as follows:..

ON THE FUTURE OF THE MIDDLE EAST by Sami Kohen

For many years, whenever we referred to the Middle East problem, we mainly thought of the Israeli-Arab conflict, which no doubt has been the major issue in the area.....

NATO ENLARGEMENT AND RUSSIA by John Bokowski

In 1997 NATO is expected at last to make a judgment on whether to proceed with its fourth enlargement since 1952. Caution has by no means dissipated. The US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, in early 1996 ruled out suggestions that the Clinton Administration differentiate towards those nations it saw as the early candidates:....

EUROPEAN SECURITY AND DEFENCE IDENTITY AND TURKEY by Turan Morali

The European Security and Defence Identity (ESDI) is an evolving concept. While its underlying philosophy dates perhaps as far back as the aborted European Defence Community initiative of 1952, its current day manifestation is a product of the post-Cold War phase of the European Union's (EU) development..

ACTIVITIES OF THE CENTRE FOR STRATEGIC RESEARCH

January-May 1996
On 18 and 19 January, the Centre participated in and contributed a paper to a seminar on 'Legal Assistance to Bosnia-Herzegovina'. This was one of the projects agreed by the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) mobilization group to assist Bosnia-Herzegovina...