termination of the cold war was followed by considerable developments in international relations, including the emergence and gradual empowerment of new political actors. china was one of these actors whose process of empowerment, which actually started many years before the end of the cold war, has drawn attention from many analysts. central asia is one of the regions with which china has had ...

the current economic crisis that plagued the west since 2008 and followed by the occupy wall street movement in 2011, were the results of the processes started since the last years of the cold war and has turned the western capitalist system into an unstrained ideology. the neoliberal economic model, globalization of economy, limitation of the power of the national governments, the emergence of...

I focused on how the domestic social grounds of anticommunism were interlinked with the external atmosphere like U.S. occupation, divided state-building and the Korean War. I especially emphasized the role of the Japanese collaborators in the post-colonial politics. Anticommunism as a political ideology surrendered to anticommunism as a rationale for the survival of class interests when histori...

Turkey’s relations with Greece form an important part of Turkey’s broader agenda. The conflict between the two countries has been a persistent threat to security in the Eastern Mediterranean since the mid-1950s. During the Cold War, the differences between the two countries threatened to break out into open conflict on several occasions.1 However, these differences have taken on added importanc...