TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY IN ITS DYNAMIC TRADITION by Tansu Çiller

The Turkish Republic, since its foundation in 1923, has followed a consistent policy of protecting its national independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity and ensuring its security, while striving to attain the level of development and welfare of modern developed countries......

DEREGULATION--FACETS OF A NEW TREND IN POLITICS by Ulrich Karpen

It seems that the neo-liberal project failed in many countries with the United States being an exception. The socialist experiment, however, failed completely except in North Korea and Cuba. The social market economy, the liberal model with a social basis, seems to be the model which has succeeded world-wide........

GEORGIA, TRANSCAUCASUS AND BEYOND by Gela Charkviani

The dissolution of the Soviet Union and the coming to an end of the Cold War led the US and the Western European members of NATO to cut down on defence spending and allocate the saved resources to more productive areas of investment.....

NATO AND UKRAINE by Alexander Kramarevsky

Politics cannot be separated from the means to exercise it, and energy, short of armed power, is perhaps one of the most effective means in the service of international politics.....

THE MEDITERRANEAN AND THE BLACK SEA by Tansug Bleda

Nowadays, the Mediterranean is higher than ever on the agenda. Nevertheless, we do not know exactly where its borders are. Its frontiers are not historical, ethnic, national or governmental.......

THE BLACK SEA ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND THE EU by Ercan Özer

One of the inherent objectives of the European Union (EU) is to formulate perspectives for the next millennium, making use of the positive developments in the regional schemes......

REGIONAL ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST
by Sema Kalaycioglu

The second half of the twentieth century represents an age of integration. For the last fifty years, countries in almost all parts of the globe have been attempting to combine their separate national economies into larger economic regions and to engage in economic activities under various forms of integration ......

TURKEY AND THE WEST by Arthur Cyr

Turkey remains distinctive in several respects from the perspective of American foreign policy. First, the nation is one of the most faithful and reliable allies. The large number of Turkish as well as American graves at the special United Nations cemetery at Pusan in South Korea, a moving legacy of fighting together to defend that nation during the 1950-1953 Korean War.....

ETHNIC SITUATION IN THE CAUCASUS by Rauf A. GUSEYNOV

The Caucasus, as a geographical area, is one of the most important historical, cultural and ethnographical regions of the world. Its territory, which is 440,700 square kilometres, is sharply divided by the Caucasus Mountains into northern and southern parts.........

TURKEY'S RISING ECONOMIC CAPACITY by Turhan Aydin

Turkey is well on its way to becoming one of the world's top twenty economies in terms of competitiveness. The GDP is approximately $164 billion, and almost twice that according to the World Bank's study based on purchasing power parity......

TURKEY AND CHINA by Mehmet Ögütçü

The world is waking up to the fact that China is becoming a new economic superpower. In just one and a half decades, China has transformed itself from a dormant, introspective giant into a dynamic powerhouse of major significance to the world economy. It currently provides the only major, rapidly growing economy in an otherwise recession-hit world. Western exporters, multinationals and emerging market investors are looking to China almost as if it were a new El Dorado. The strategic centre of gravity is also shifting towards China and other dynamic Asia-Pacific nations, bringing about fundamental changes in traditional balance-of-power equations..

BOOK REVIEW

"TURKEY BETWEEN EAST AND WEST: NEW CHALLENGES FOR A RISING REGIONAL POWER", Mastny, Vojtech and Nation, R. Craig (Eds.) Boulder, Colorado, Westwiew Press, (1996) xiii+279pp.

Ilter Turan
Turkey Between East and West: New Challenges for a Rising Regional Power is a compendium of papers presented at a conference entitled Turkey and Europe, held at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna Center in February 1994. Conference papers are slow in appearing in edited volumes......