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Başarısızdevlet-demokratik model ülke sarmalında Gürcistan'ın 20 yılı
(2012) Çelikpala, Mitat
Gürcistan, bağımsızlığın ilan edildiği 1990’lı yıllardan bu güne zayıf siyasi, ekonomik ve finansal yapısı ile etnik sorunlarıyla sürekli olarak bir başarısız devlet görüntüsü sergiledi. Ülkede güçlü, demokratik ve kapsayıcı bir siyasi liderin çıkmaması, etkin muhalefetin oluşamaması birçok sorunlara yol açtı. Gürcistan’ın kısa vadeli geleceği, 2012’de yapılacak parlamento seçimleriyle nasıl bir parlamento oluşacağı ve 2013’te yapılacak başkanlık seçimlerinin nasıl seyredeceği konusuna bağlıdır. Seçimlerden sonra yürürlüğe girecek anayasa değişikliklerinin nasıl bir düzen oluşturacağı, Saakaşvili’nin siyasi tavrı ve geleceği, Gürcistan’ın ana gündemini belirleyecektir. Gürcistan’ın en büyük sorunu, Saakaşvili’nin karşısına 2003–2004 dönemindeki gibi etkili ve güçlü bir yeni Saakaşvili’nin çıkmamış olmasıdır. Saakaşvili’nin Rusya’dakine benzer bir “Putin-Medvedev” senaryosunu mu tercih edeceği yoksa farklı ve demokratik bir yol mu izleyeceği henüz belirsizliğini korumaktadır.
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Energy Security in South East Europe
(Palgrave, 2013) Çelikpala, Mitat; Kuznetsov, Alexey V.; Çelikpala, Mitat; Gleason, Gregory
[Abstract Not Available]
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Energy Security: NATO's New Threat Perception
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2014) Çelikpala, Mitat
Energy security could enter NATO's security agenda as one of the main issues just during the last decade. NATO leaders recognize that the disruption of the flow of vital resources could affect Alliance security interests. There is no agreement on the definition of energy security in NATO as it differs based on each country's needs ; however there is a paragraph in the NATO concept from 2010 that states the importance of energy security and in 2012 there was further agreement that NATO wants to be involved in energy security and energy efficiency of military forces. This article is focused on the issue and analyses the importance and the meaning of energy security for NATO in the light of NATO summit declarations and the various NATO's strategic concepts.
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Enerji güvenliği: NATO’nun yeni tehdit algısı
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği İktisadi İşletmesi, 2014) Çelikpala, Mitat
Enerji güvenliği, ana amacı İttifak üyelerini askeri tehditlere karşı savunmak olan NATO’nun öncelikli konu başlıkları arasına ancak son on yılda girebilmiştir. Bu çalışmada, NATO’nun Soğuk Savaş sonrası dönemde düzenlenen zirvelerinde yayınlanan zirve bildirgeleri ve stratejik konseptler ile çeşitli NATO zeminlerinde yapılan tartışmalar ışığında, enerji güvenliğinin NATO için taşıdığı anlam ve önem üzerinde durulmaktadır. NATO’nun enerji güvenliği kavramına yaklaşımı değerlendirilerek, önümüzdeki süreçte enerji güvenliği konusunun NATO çerçevesinde ne yönde şekillenebileceği ortaya konmaya çalışılmaktadır.
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Escalating rivalries and diverging interests: prospects for stability and security in the Black Sea region
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2010) Çelikpala, Mitat
The Black Sea region is increasingly becoming a priority on the international agenda. In fact a regional approach is emerging as actors understand that common problems need to be addressed jointly. Nevertheless cooperation efforts are hampered by a number of factors such as uneven economic and political development within and among countries nationalist forces and longstanding animosities between regional players. In this context it is imperative to foster sound policies aimed at strengthening dialogue and cooperation so as to contain and ultimately resolve conflicts with peaceful means. However there is little policy-oriented research on the challenges and opportunities for cooperation in the Black Sea region. This study is primarily devoted to exploring and understanding the security environment and the main threats to security and stability in the Black Sea region.
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The Only Thing We Have to Fear: Post 9/11 Institutionalization of In-security [Korkmamız gereken tek şey: 11 Eylül sonrasında güvensizliğin kurumsallaşması]
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2012) Çelikpala, Mitat; Öztürk, Duygu
During the last decade billions of dollars have been spent to increase security measures in the United States. New institutions including a department for homeland security have been established new security tools have been developed and surveillance of Americans has been increased. However despite the creation of 'safety zones' neither the level of the Americans' feeling of security from further terrorist attacks nor their confidence in the ability of US governments to prevent attacks has seen an increase. According to Beck who introduced the concepts of 'world risk society' and 'reflexive modernity' terrorism is one of the products of reflexive modernity which cannot be addressed by traditional security measures. Within this framework this paper analyzes the case of the Americans since 9/11 attacks. In this vein it is argued that the gap which has arisen as a result of addressing non-territory and non-state-based terrorism through state-based security measures has caused a continuation of a high level of insecurity fear and anxiety among the Americans. Public opinion surveys conducted in the United States since the 9/11 attacks by various institutions are used to analyze Americans' thoughts about security and the terror risk in the United States.
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Rekabet ve İşbirliği İkileminde Yönünü Arayan Türk-Rus İlişkileri
(Ahmet Yesevi Üniversitesi Mütevelli Heyet Başkanlığı, 2015) Çelikpala, Mitat
Son dönem Türk-Rus ikili ilişkileri, işbirliği ve stratejik ortaklık söylemleri etrafında tanımlamaktadır. 1990’lı yıllara hâkim olan rekabet söyleminin yerini alan bu yeni bakış açısı, TürkRus ikili ilişkilerinin seyrinde temel bir dönüşüme işaret etmektedir. İki ülkenin ilişkilerini geliştirirken işbirliğinin boyutlanmasını sağlayacak hedef bölgesi olarak, 1990’lı yıllarda rekabetin en yoğun biçimde yaşandığı Avrasya’yı seçmesi ise, Türk Dış Politikasının genel çizgisi ve ikili ilişkilerin seyri açısından, yaşanan dönüşümün farklı bir yönüne işaret etmektedir. Bu çalışmada, Türk-Rus ilişkilerinde yaşanan dönüşümün sebepleri ve sonuçları hem söylem hem de eylem boyutunda ve tarihsel süreç dikkate alınarak sorgulanmakta; bu dönüşümün Türkiye’nin Avrasya söylem ve politikalarına yansımalarının yanı sıra, Türk kamuoyu ile dış politika yapıcılarının rol tasavvurlarında gerçek bir dönüşümün söz konusu olup olmadığına cevaplar aranmaktadır.
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Rekabet ve işbirliği ikileminde yönünü arayan Türk-Rus ilişkileri
(Ahmet Yesevi University, 2015) Çelikpala, Mitat
Son dönem Türk-Rus ikili ilişkileri, işbirliği ve stratejik ortaklık söylemleri etrafında tanımlamaktadır. 1990’lı yıllara hâkim olan rekabet söyleminin yerini alan bu yeni bakış açısı, TürkRus ikili ilişkilerinin seyrinde temel bir dönüşüme işaret etmektedir. İki ülkenin ilişkilerini geliştirirken işbirliğinin boyutlanmasını sağlayacak hedef bölgesi olarak, 1990’lı yıllarda rekabetin en yoğun biçimde yaşandığı Avrasya’yı seçmesi ise, Türk Dış Politikasının genel çizgisi ve ikili ilişkilerin seyri açısından, yaşanan dönüşümün farklı bir yönüne işaret etmektedir. Bu çalışmada, Türk-Rus ilişkilerinde yaşanan dönüşümün sebepleri ve sonuçları hem söylem hem de eylem boyutunda ve tarihsel süreç dikkate alınarak sorgulanmakta; bu dönüşümün Türkiye’nin Avrasya söylem ve politikalarına yansımalarının yanı sıra, Türk kamuoyu ile dış politika yapıcılarının rol tasavvurlarında gerçek bir dönüşümün söz konusu olup olmadığına cevaplar aranmaktadır.
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Russian and Turkish foreign policy activism in the Syrian theater
(International Relations Council of Turkey, 2019) Çelikpala, Mitat; Çelikpala, Mitat
Russia and Turkey have been involved in remarkable redefinitions of their foreign policies while navigating through turbulent times in the Post-Cold War era. This has manifested in a search of being recognized as a great power. The tragic civil war in Syria has been the theatre of these ambitions of these two states in highly controversial ways. They have been on the opposite sides until recently on the essential question of the regime change in that country. The risk of a direct fight has even been observed when Turkish air force got a Russian jet down. However, a rapid rapprochement started due to Turkish priority shift from the regime change to the prevention of Kurdish autonomy and the alienation from US; and Russian enthusiasm to get the cooperation of an ardent anti-regime NATO member like Turkey. It can be said that Russia and Turkey have been more process-oriented than result-oriented because they have been compelled to see the limits of their power and influence. As a result, they seem to prefer to focus on the process since they seem to reach their primary objective of showing their salience. All in all, one can only hope for a peaceful and democratic life for Syrians whom tremendously suffered also as a result of an imbroglio of all these global and regional powers’ policies.
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The Russian Policies in the South Caucasus
(IOS Press, 2011) Çelikpala, Mitat
In the post-2000 period, Russia's relations with the former Soviet geography, or its "near abroad," are dominated by such issues as energy, namely the dependence of the surrounding countries on Russia, changes in the trade patterns and the impact of globalization, the fight with terrorism, entrenched ethnic conflicts, and the enlargement of Western structures including NATO. In this general framework, the Caucasus has had a special importance for Russia due to its geopolitical and strategic position at the crossroads of energy transit lines, the existence of rich energy resources and the complexity of its ethnic structure. This article aims to analyze Russian Federation's Caucasus policy in a comprehensive manner.
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Terrorist Threats to Energy Critical Infrastructure Technology and Protection Systems
(IOS Press, 2013) Çelikpala, Mitat
Critical infrastructure is an umbrella term referring to a country's assets that are essential to the nation's security public health and safety economic vitality and way of life. This infrastructure is owned or operated by both the public and the private sector. All agencies responsible for protecting the critical infrastructure act to mitigate the risks through implementing risk management techniques. Even the best security management plans and legislation which compel their enforcement are worthless without proper implementation. In this implementation stage continuous analysis should be made. This effort necessitates investment in horizon scanning early warning risk analysis intelligence gathering and dissemination. With the help of these phases crises prevention crisis management post-crisis stabilization and consequence management could be conducted. All affected parties should also kept ready through training and education research and development programs and prepared to reply any kind of terrorist threat on the critical energy infrastructure.
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Turkey and the Caucasus: Transition from Reactive Foreign Policy to Proactive Rhythmic Diplomacy
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2010) Çelikpala, Mitat
The consequences of the August 2008 Russian-Georgian War have deeply influenced not only the Caucasus but overall global stability as well. Turkey as a regional actor which claims to follow active diplomacy in her region has also been directly affected. Currently Turkey has positioned itself as a regional actor with a 'new' political perspective and has responded to developments in order to give the events shape and to ensure stability in the region. This attitude has caused controversies. The Caucasus became an interesting example to monitor Turkish foreign policy implementations with mottos such as 'zero problems with neighbors' problem-solving country' and 'rhythmic diplomacy' Turkey's policies and reactions to developments taking place in the Caucasus will help us to analyze and understand foreign policy objectives policy-making processes and the overall course of Turkish foreign policy This study makes a comprehensive assessment of Turkey's foreign policy in the Caucasus before and after August 2008.
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Turkey and the Caucasus: Transition from reactive foreign policy to proactive rhythmic diplomacy [Türkiye ve Kafkasya: Reaksiyoner dip politikadan proaktif ritmik diplomasiye geçiş]
(International Relations Council of Turkey, 2010) Çelikpala, Mitat
The consequences of the August 2008 Russian-Georgian War have deeply infl uenced not only the Caucasus but overall global stability as well. Turkey as a regional actor which claims to follow active diplomacy in her region has also been directly aff ected. Currently Turkey has positioned itself as a regional actor with a 'new' political perspective and has responded to developments in order to give the events shape and to ensure stability in the region. This attitude has caused controversies. The Caucasus became an interesting example to monitor Turkish foreign policy implementations with mottos such as 'zero problems with neighbors' 'problem-solving country' and 'rhythmic diplomacy.' Turkey's policies and reactions to developments taking place in the Caucasus will help us to analyze and understand foreign policy objectives policy-making processes and the overall course of Turkish foreign policy. This study makes a comprehensive assessment of Turkey's foreign policy in the Caucasus before and after August 2008.
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Turkey and the changing energy geopolitics of Eurasia
(Elsevier Science, 2019) Çelikpala, Mitat; Çelikpala, Mitat
While Turkeys geographical location is usually viewed as a major advantage in the energy sphere since many countries in its immediate neighbourhood require active Turkish collaboration in order to export or import oil and natural gas via economically feasible pipeline projects the ongoing political economic and military conflicts between the same global and regional actors not only negatively affect the development of the energy transportation routes in Eurasia but also present a major foreign policy challenge for Ankara that has traditionally sought to maintain a careful balance in its relations with the West and Russia. The goal of this article is to elaborate on the influence of such geopolitical factors in evaluating Turkeys role in terms of the oil and natural gas pipelines that are either planned or already under construction to connect the various sub-regions of Eurasia. Employing a traditional geopolitical approach it seeks to understand what kind of geopolitical factors come into play regarding Turkey's role in the changing energy geopolitics of Eurasia and in what ways these geopolitical factors strengthen or weaken Turkeys objective to be perceived as a regional energy hub by other actors.
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Turkey's rapprochements with Greece and Armenia: Understanding path breaking steps
(Routledge Journals, 2019) Çelikpala, Mitat; Çelikpala, Mitat
This comparative analysis considers the Turkish-Greek rapprochement and the Turkish-Armenian rapprochement processes with a three-dimensional approach. Although the deep-rooted conflicts between neither Greece and Turkey nor Armenia and Turkey were resolved via these processes, the bilateral relationships between the countries have significantly differed. This paper argues that two key main reasons lie behind this difference: the nature of the initiatives taken during the two processes and the influence of external actors on the course of the bilateral relations between Turkey and Greece, on the one hand, and Turkey and Armenia on the other hand.
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Turkish Efforts in Peacekeeping and the Introduction of the TUBAKOV Dataset: An Exploratory Analysis
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018) Çelikpala, Mitat; Hatipoğlu, Emre; Acar, Dilaver Arikan; Çelikpala, Mitat
This study introduces the TUBAKOV dataset which offers extensive data on 57 peacekeeping operations (PKOs) that Turkey has contributed to between the years 1988-2015. TUBAKOV improves existing data in several ways. First it draws data from governmental resources that have not been previously used. Second Turkey's contributions for each PKO are presented both at the levels of PKO and PKO-contribution year format. The website of the dataset also allows access to qualitative data such as primary text sources hence facilitating qualitative and multi-method research on peacekeeping. Preliminary analyses indicate that the frequency nature and the geographic focus of Turkey's contributions to peacekeeping operations demonstrate a significant shift with the new millennium. Preliminary findings offer interesting insights to the changing characteristics of Turkey's PKO involvements relating to the content geography and timing of these contributions over the time period covered by this dataset.
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Turkish Foreign Policy and Cross-border Cooperation in the South Caucasus
(IOS Press, 2013) Çelikpala, Mitat
This article aims at a comprehensive evaluation of Turkey's foreign policy in the Caucasus after 2008. An assessment related to the responses given and the steps taken by Turkey with respect to the emergent events would facilitate the comprehension of Turkish foreign policy parameters in general. Throughout the article Turkey's foreign policy in the South Caucasus will be discussed under topics such as the Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform which was proposed by Turkey as an attempt to restore the regional order and stability the Armenian Opening Turkey-Azerbaijan relations commercial and economic ties and energy cooperation.
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Türkiye ve Kafkasya: Reaksiyoner dış politikadan proaktif ritmik diplomasiye geçiş
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği İktisadi İşletmesi, 2010) Çelikpala, Mitat
Ağustos 2008 Rus-Gürcü savaşının yarattığı sonuçlar sadece Kafkasları değil, neredeyse tüm küresel dengeleri derinden etkilemiştir. Savaşın başlattığı olaylar zincirinin, son dönemde bölgesel bir güç olarak içinde yer aldığı coğrafyalarda aktif bir dış politika izleme iddiasındaki Türkiye’ye etkisi doğrudandır. Gelişmelere gösterilen tepkiler ve şekillendirilmeye çalışılan “yeni” bakış açısı, çevresinde istikrarı sağlamaya ve sorunlara çözüm üretmeye çalışan bölgesel bir aktör olarak konumlanan Türkiye’nin politikalarının tartışılmasına neden olmuştur. Kafkaslar, “komşularla sıfır sorun”, “sorun değil çözüm üreten ülke” ve “ritmik diplomasi” gibi bir takım yeni söylemlerle, yeni ve etkin bir dış politika çizgisi oluşturmaya çalışan Türkiye’nin, dış politika süreçleri ve etkinliğinin izlenebileceği ilgi çekici örneklerden biri haline gelmiştir. Kafkasya’da yaşanan gelişmelere yönelik olarak Türkiye’nin izlediği politikalar, genel olarak Türk dış politikasının seyrini, hedefl erini ve dış politika yapım süreçlerini anlamada yardımcı olacaktır. Bu çalışma, Türkiye’nin Ağustos 2008 sonrası dönemde Kafkaslarda izlediği dış politikanın kapsamlı bir değerlendirmesini yapmaktadır.

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