The Second Tripartite Balkan Summit

The Second Tripartite Summit between Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia has been launched with the participation of President Gül, President Tadic of Serbia and the Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidential Council Chairman, Radmanovic. President Gül, during the joint press conference after the Second Turkey-Bosnia-Herzegovina-Serbia Tripartite Balkan Summit, accentuated the cruciality of enacting the necessary reforms in the region, evincing:...

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Finland’s anti-euro party causes election upset

Finland’s pro-Europe National Coalition led by Finance Minister Jyrki Katainen has won Finland’s general election but is set to form a government with the country’s anti-euro bloc. The unlikely pairing, which is considered a major political upset, also bodes ill for Portugal’s bailout package as the euro-sceptics have threatened to oppose its rescue plan. The True Finns, whose leader Timo Soini made major gains based on criticising Europe’s...

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Critical Analysis of the Democratic Peace Theory

The terms of democracy and peace seems like very close to each other. People can see these words together most of times, in globalizing world, today. Does democracy promote peace? Is it rhetoric or the reality? Immanuel Kant    According to democratic peace theory, democracy promotes peace. As scholars such as Michael Doyle, Rudolph Rummel, and Bruce Russett have argued that liberal democracies are unique in that they are able to...

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The Role of the Economics in the Discourse of Stability

Security and balance of power are the most mentioned terms in the most of international relations disciplines. This shows the importance of security and balance of power in most of people`s world view. For instance, securization theory was developed by Buzan and Waever and explores the constructivist dimension of security. In addition to this, realists put the security dilemma discussion and balance of power system. For some theorists...

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Greek student studying in Turkey writes letter back to Greece

Letter to my Home Country;  I haven’t really missed you at all. During the last 2 years, I have been studying and living in Turkey. It is a country with several strengths but also quite a few weaknesses. Nevertheless, it is a place with a Vision and a Serious Outlook, in brief “everyone works hard and tries to get ahead”.   Vision … a word that has sunk so low in our country. A quaint term heard at each and every political rally, that...

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