TURKEY: SETTING SAIL TO THE 21ST CENTURY by Ismail Cem

The termination of the Cold War at the end of the 1980's is a turning point in the twentieth century as much as it is in the history of humankind. A transformation with vast global ramifications is taking shape. Global balances once more overturned, are being re-established.....

THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND MINORITIES IN THE BALKANS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS by Pascal Milo

New constitutions have been drafted in all the post communist countries of the Balkans. They reflect the qualitative changes taking place in the political, economic and social life of these countries, the transition from communist dictatorship to pluralist democracy, from centralised economy to free market economy.....

RE-EMERGENCE OF TRADITIONAL THREATS by Patrick McCarthy

History does not repeat itself, not even as farce. Yet the history and geography, the political structures, and the economy of a region, a nation or a continent make up what one might call its situation, which usually contains security problems......

TURKEY AND GREECE: AN APPENDIX AND A LETTER by OsmanOlcay

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes- Publius Vergilius Maro (BC 70-19)
For more than half of the forty odd years the author of this article spent in the Turkish foreign service he was dealing with multilateral rather than bilateral relations......

GLOBAL CURRENTS AND TURKEY by Taner Baytok

As we approach the 21st century, the political scene is witnessing the emergence of an increasing number of independent states and an augmentation in nationalistic tendencies and approaches within the existing states.....

THE BLACK SEA ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND REGIONAL SECURITY
by Ercan Özer

The Black Sea and its peripheral sub-regions have played a major role in shaping European history. Although the Black Sea region is on the margins of Europe proper, it has been at the centre of European intra-relationships....

YUGOSLAV FOREIGN POLICY: CONTINUITY AND CHANGES by Predrag Simic

Changes in Yugoslav foreign policy began towards the end of the eighties under the influence of numerous external and internal factors which called for a profound revision of the country's foreign policy agenda in order to meet the new realities in Europe and the world....

ATATÜRK'S TURKEY

This transcript of discussion is published in Perceptions with the permission of BBC Scotland. Copyright will remain with BBC Scotland.
(The following text is an edited transcript of a discussion on BBC Radio Scotland, the Collin Bell Programme, on 15 July 1997, at 1:03 pm)

HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE WAR IN CHECHNYA by Antero Leitzinger

The Middle East, and lately Eastern Europe, are astonishing examples of history repeating itself. The same applies to Caucasia. As soon as the Soviet Union disintegrated, new Russia launched its foreign policy toward the newly independent Caucasian states based on the old traditions of pre-1917 imperial policy. Instead of developing completely new, modern strategies, Russia copied old ones, disregarding the fact that the world had changed.......

HOW COMPATIBLE IS THE TURKISH POPULATION STRUCTURE WITH EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES? by Aykut Toros

The governments of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey always turned towards the West when they wanted to modernise the state and the society. The roots of this perspective can be found in the reformation programmes Tanzimat of Sultan Abdülmecit, dating from 3 November, 1839, which in themselves, were the culmination of historical reformist needs developing in the sociological roots of the region.....  

CAN RUSSIA DO IT ALONE IN THE CAUCASUS? by Dr. Pavel K. Baev

In the heat of the NATO enlargement debate in Moscow, one issue was mentioned in passing by such different personalities as Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Alexander Lebed and Grigory Yavlinsky. The focus was misplaced. They pointed out that the protracted argument had turned attention away from where the real security problems were the aucasus......  

JAPAN AND TURKEY HISTORICAL PROCESS FOR DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
by Hiroshi Nagaba

It is not an easy, smooth passage through which the two countries passed to their conclusion of a treaty to establish diplomatic relations. It was in 1875 that the Japanese government officially signified its intention to establish diplomatic relations with Turkey (then the Ottoman Empire)....  

BOOK REVIEW

ISLAMIC ART BY DAVID TALBOT RICE (OR THE NEEDLESSNESS OF THE CLASH OF CIVILISATIONS)

Selçuk Korkud
After a recent visit to the Islamic section of the New Louvre and being once again moved by the beauty of its rich collection, in particular by the wonderful luminosity of the Iznik tiles there is a plate there which announces modern painting all by itself, Matisse and other artists......