| Srl | Item |
| 1 |
ID:
133705
|
|
|
|
|
| Publication |
2014.
|
| Summary/Abstract |
This article argues that the 'Arab Spring' has ended the long-standing US-Israeli common strategy of supporting pro-Western and semi-secular autocracies in the Arab world. During these tumultuous events Washington chose to support the rebellions to varying degrees, thus exacerbating Israel's concerns regarding the adverse regional implications attending this shift (notably the ascendance of Islamist regimes and the diversion of world attention from Iran's nuclear quest). By way of ameliorating such threats, the US needs to pursue a policy of supporting pro-democracy groups in the region while formulating a clear policy to deal with the threats from Iran and radical Islamist groups. All in all, the 'Arab Spring' has created a highly volatile strategic environment thus making Israel an even more valuable strategic ally for the US
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 2 |
ID:
114164
|
|
|
|
|
| Publication |
2012.
|
| Summary/Abstract |
Turkey and Israel had been strategic partners since the 1990s. Yet, there has been an unprecedented crisis between the two countries particularly since the winter of 2009. This article analyses the stalemate in bilateral relations, and argues that the Justice and Development Party's (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP) Islamist foreign policy toward the Middle East and the 2003 Iraqi war ended the sources of strategic partnership between Turkey and Israel.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 3 |
ID:
091003
|
|
|
|
|
| Publication |
2009.
|
| Summary/Abstract |
This article examines Turkey's 2009 local elections in which the ruling Adalet ve Kalk?nma Partisi (AKP) lost some of its votes. The article argues that the AKP's mismanagement of the Turkish economy facing the global economic crisis, the AKP-related corruption scandals, the party's authoritarian tendencies vis- -vis the secular segment of the society, the party's Kurdish policy, and its inability to satisfy the Islamist electorate's political demands account for the decline in the AKP's vote-share. Although there was a decline in the AKP's vote-share, the party continued to rank first. The AKP's strong organizational networks with diligent party workers, through which the party successfully distributed selective material incentives to poorly educated, low-income voters in shantytowns and rural areas, account for this result.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|