GLOBALISATION AND THE STATE

NILÜFER K. GÖKSEL
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Business, Department of International Relations, Dokuz Eylul University, Buca, Izmir.

At the beginning of the 21st century, we are living in an era of globalisation. Is globalisation a threat to the Westphalia system? The Westphalia system was a framework of governance. At the core of this mode of governance stood the principles of statehood and sovereignty.  Statehood meant that the world divided into territorial parcels, each of which was ruled by a separate government.

CHINA, WTO AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES  – A CONSTRUCTIVIST ANALYSIS

MOHAMMAD TANZIMUDDIN KHAN
Research Officer at  Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS)

China's recent accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has raised both hopes and fears for developing countries. The hopes emanate from its economic clout and the desire for leadership. In many official statements, China has supported developing countries' struggle to survive in the global economy. On the other hand, the fears appear from an economic rationale.

TOWARDS A KASHMIRI SETTLEMENT BEYOND JIHAD

ISHTIAQ AHMAD
Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations, Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

Since the January 2004 agreement between former Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and President General Pervez Musharraf to resume the process of normalizing the India-Pakistan relationship, hopes for resolving the more than half a century old Kashmir dispute have risen significantly. However, if history is any guide, any optimism over the Kashmir settlement must come with caution. Kashmir has led to two of the three major wars between India and Pakistan (1948 and 1965) and a limited war over Kargil in 1999 which could have gone nuclear. Between December 2001 and June 2002, the two countries faced two crises over Kashmir, either of which could have erupted into a war with potential nuclear risks.

IRAN'S RELATIONS WITH CENTRAL ASIA – A STRATEGIC ANALYSIS

SIMBAL A. KHAN

The twentieth century political landscape of the world is strewn with   conflicts whose sources lie as much in the engagement of extra regional powers,  as they lay in the fault lines of their regional security environments. The paper attempts to expose the underlying tensions within Iran's immediate security environment which are  exacerbated by the involvement of the hyperactive super power, the U.S. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the independence of the Central Asian States has set into motion intense systemic changes in Iran's geo political environment. These changes have largely undermined Iran's geo-political significance and increased its vulnerability to pressures from various international and regional sources.

REFLECTIONS ON THE EU STRATEGY PAPER 2003 –TWO APPROACHES, MOVING CONDITIONS AND A NEW JUNCTURE

MUSTAFA TÜRKES and GÖKSU GÖKGÖZ
(Please note that this article was written in December 2003)

An analysis of the Strategy Paper 2003 shows that there is a growing divergence between the approach of the Union towards Turkey and the latter's desire to be integrated. The overall stance of Brussels towards Turkey is at the heart of this divergence. Brussels is treating the issue of Turkey's inclusion into the EU as a simple foreign policy matter. Turkey, as demonstrated during the Helsinki Summit and since then, has revealed her genuine intention of being incorporated into the Union.

THE EUROPEAN DEFENCE COMMUNITY IN THE U.S. FOREIGN POLICY CONTEXT

M. TÜRKER ARI
Post-graduate student in the University of Baskent, Institute of Social Sciences.

The European Defence Community (E.D.C.) was an ambitious initiative in the first years of the 1950s. Leading European countries had different foreign policy agendas towards it. The E.D.C. could have been a crucial milestone on the long path towards European integration. However, the failure to ratify its agreement by the French Parliament in 1954 left this project of defence integration stillborn - but paved the way for another solution for the rearmament of Germany: the Western European Union (WEU), as a sub-group of NATO.  Nevertheless, the dormant ideal, to contribute to a “European Army” later became one of the ultimate goals of the European Union.

EVOLVING EUROPEAN SECURITY CAPABILITIES AND EU-TURKISH RELATIONS

ÖZLEM TERZI
Research Assistant at Istanbul University, Faculty of Political Sciences, and Department of International Relations

This paper focuses on the place and potential of European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) in the European security structure and analyses the perception and reaction of Turkey towards such an emergent European security establishment as an example of a third country's perception of ESDP. 

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THE  UNDERLYING DYNAMICS OF THE EUROPEAN SECURITY AND DEFENCE POLICY

SINEM A. AÇIKMESE
Research assistant, Department of EU Studies, Institute of Social Sciences, Ankara University

Throughout the last decade, the European Union (EU) has been engaged in a broader debate about its functioning. At the apex of these discussions are the issues of economic and monetary integration, enlargement and institutional reform. At the same time, the EU's role in the security and defence realm is being questioned by what has become known as the ‘Common European Security and Defence Policy' (CESDP) project.

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