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The Black Sea Region: The Neighbourhood too Close to yet still Far from the European Union
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014) Acikmese Akgul, Sinem; Triantaphyllou, Dimitrios
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Dynamics of Cooperation and Conflict in NATO-EU Relations
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2014) Acikmese Akgul, Sinem; Dizdaroğlu, Cihan
NATO's supremacy in the security and defence structures of the Euro-Atlantic region during the Cold War era has prevented the development of a self-sustained European security mechanism. With the end of the Cold War specifically with the St. Malo Summit in 1998 which was a breakthrough in the advancement of the Common Security and Defence Policy the NATO-EU relationship became pronounced. Since then opportunities for and difficulties of collaboration have both defined this inter-institutional relationship between NATO and the EU. Despite a series of arrangements for strengthening the institutional framework of NATO-EU relations as well as the Berlin-plus agreements the argument of an effective cooperation between two organizations would be misguided. Particularly discrimination against the non-EU NATO allies as well as the existence of challenges such as decoupling and duplication are hampering progress in NATO-EU relations. This article aims at shedding a light on the limited cooperation between these two organizations by focusing on the current challenges.
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EU conditionality and desecuritization nexus in Turkey
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2013) Acikmese Akgul, Sinem
Borrowing the Copenhagen school's lexicon of desecuritization the present paper appraises the EU's role as a desecuritizing agent for Turkey with a particular focus on security speech-acts about Kurdish separatism' and political Islam'. Taking up the illustrative cases of silencing the military and abandoning limits to freedom of speech reflected in EU-Turkey accession documents this paper observes the ways in which the EU membership conditionality has been an important catalyst for Turkey's desecuritizations
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The NATO-EU-Turkey trilogy: the impact of the Cyprus conundrum
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012) Acikmese Akgul, Sinem; Triantaphyllou, Dimitrios
The Cyprus conundrum presents a major challenge to western security structures and relationships in particular with regard to Turkey's European Union (EU) accession process and the stalled Berlin plus arrangements between NATO and the EU. This article argues that the Cyprus question is neither the sole reason for blocking the progress nor is its resolution the panacea for unblocking the interwoven stalemate in the NATO-EU and the EU-Turkey relationships. In this context this article will first provide a brief synopsis of the history of relations between Turkey and the EU as well as between the EU and NATO
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Perception or Discourse? Security Threats in Copenhagen School and Neoclassical Realism
(2011) Acikmese Akgul, Sinem
This article compares the perceptive approach of neoclassical realist security understanding with the discursive constructivist methodology of the Copenhagen School in analyzing the emergence of security threats. It departs from the assumption that these theories divergent in their perspectives on the content of security threats as well as security actors are comparable since they reveal methodological commonalities. The main emphasis of this article is that while partly adopting the perceptive subjectivity of neoclassical realism the Copenhagen School has further developed an alternative model of discursive intersubjectivity in analyzing security threats. In this context it will first cover the discussions on the content of security threats in Security Studies literature. It will then compare the assumptions of various realist understandings of security on the content and emergence of security threats with a particular focus on the perceptive perspective of neoclassical realism. Finally it will study the threat approach of the Copenhagen School through its securitization theory with insights from the speech-act theory political theory and discourse analysis in comparison with neoclassical realism.
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Revisiting the Mainstream Approaches of the Theories of International Relations
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2015) Aydın, Mustafa; Acikmese Akgul, Sinem
The view that we have reached the end of the "grand debates" in International Relations (IR) is widespread among the majority of IR scholars. Today, we observe that the references to the great theoretical debates in the prominent journals of IR have significantly diminished and that the most relevant debates have been among the scholars belonging to the same school specifically over empirical studies rather than between theories/paradigms. 'this paper, by revealing the challenges generated by the "grand debates" and the discussions on whether or not there will a return to the "grand debates", incorporates some ideas on the current status as well as the future of IR in Turkey and the world. Taking from this point, this paper has been prepared as an introductory article to this special issue which has been compiled in order to remind the readers on the mainstream theories of IR that have been subject to the "grand debates" and that will shape the future discussions on the state of the IR theory.
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Squaring the Circle: The EU's Operational Impact in the Black Sea Region
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014) Acikmese Akgul, Sinem; Dizdaroğlu, Cihan
The aim of this paper is to explain the flux in the European Union (EU) policies towards the Black Sea region with a particular comparative focus on the impact of the EU's operations in the South Caucasus and the EU Border Assistance Mission (EUBAM) in Moldova. This paper adopts the prospect and process of EU enlargement towards Central and Eastern Europe as a breakthrough in the EU's deeper rapprochement with the Black Sea region. By assuming that the EU has a variety of instruments at its disposal for crisis management this paper suggests that the EU is relatively more powerful with its framework initiatives in dealing with the problems of the region at the grass-roots level more so than as a security actor assuming direct roles including the operative side of the Common Security and Defence Policy in the resolution of the regional conflicts in Abkhazia South Ossetia Nagorno-Karabakh and Transnistria. More specifically this paper argues to what extent the three-and-a-half operations in the Black Sea are successful in presenting effective solutions to the region's conflictual situations.
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Uluslararası İlişkiler Kuramlarında
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği İktisadi İşletmesi, 2015) Aydın, Mustafa; Acikmese Akgul, Sinem
Uluslararası İlişkiler’in (Uİ) “büyük tartışma”larının sona erdiğine dair görüş alanın yazarlarının büyük çoğunluğu tarafından dile getirilmektedir. Bugün disiplinin ana dergilerinde büyük kuramsal tartışmalara yapılan atıflar önemli ölçüde azalmıştır ve en kayda değer münazaralar kuramlar/paradigmalar arasında değil, daha ziyade aynı kuramı benimseyen yazarlar arasında sıklıkla da ampirik çalışmalar üzerinden gerçekleşmektedir. Bu çalışma, Uluslararası İlişkiler’in “büyük tartışma”larının sakıncalarını ve Uİ yazınındaki “büyük tartışma”lara geri dönüş sorgulamalarını ortaya koyarak, Uİ’nin dünyada ve Türkiye’deki mevcut durumu ve geleceğine dair görüşler içermektedir. Bu noktadan hareketle, bu çalışma “büyük tartışma”lara bugüne kadar konu olan ve gelecekteki tartışmaların da temelini oluşturacak ana akımları okuyuculara yeniden hatırlatmak üzere hazırlanan bu özel sayıya giriş makalesi olarak kaleme alınmıştır.

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