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This study analyses the early years of cooperation between Türkiye and the United States (US) in the field of security and defence by utilising US government documents and the secondary sources that heavily depend on primary sources. It emphasizes the link between the elements of the strategic context in which the US developed its approach to the defence of the Middle East and the American interest
in developing defence ties with Türkiye. The major outcomes of Turkish-American cooperation were American support for Türkiye against the Soviet Union in 1946, the provision of American military assistance in 1947, the modernization of the Turkish military, the construction of military bases on Turkish territory, American support for Turkish membership in NATO and Turkish willingness to conduct its
relations with the Middle East in coordination with the West. This study reveals that those outcomes reflected for the most time American political and strategic preferences. For this reason, the typical characteristics of those relations between great powers and small states can be observed in Turkish-American security relations during their formative years.

The facet of territorial and military ambitions began to lose its importance with the states starting to specialize in high value-added and intangible assets. Richard Rosecrance endeavored to formulate a novel development method for these relatively small-scale states. Instead of developing an immense domestic manufacturing capacity with traditional production methods, these 'virtual' states have followed a knowledge, artificial intelligence, and innovation-based development that emphasizes investment, high added value, and the mobility of intangible assets. Although some states did not wholly fit into the virtual state framework within the scope of Rosecrance's definition, they carried some of its characteristics. This study claims that Qatar, which has succeeded in establishing a sphere of influence beyond its borders and population, has some virtual state characteristics by merging its rich hydrocarbon resources with technology and innovation. After a theoretical review, the study claims that Qatar's virtual state characteristics have considerably mitigated the deleterious effects of the embargo imposed on Qatar by four Arab countries in 2017. The final part expands the Qatar-Turkey relationship that comes to the forefront as the field of applying these characteristics from an economic and financial perspective, contrary to the prevailing ideology and politics-based studies in the literature.

A developmental state is both a theoretical construct and a description of the political economy of certain nations, primarily in East Asia, over a specified time period. Theoretically, a developmental state is a particular type of state with a high degree of autonomy and solid institutional competence, allowing it to undertake a series of effective state-interventionist policies in pursuit of developmental objectives. Statism and state autonomy underpin the conceptual framework of the developmental state. The developmental state defied the neoclassical orthodoxy in development economics. Despite lacking the attributes of the mainstream neoclassical consensus in development economics and facing an uphill battle from such institutions, developmental states in various regions of the world have achieved high levels of economic growth. This study seeks to investigate the developmental state trajectories of Mauritius in relation to vital elements of developmental states. In an effort to do so, this study poses the following question: "What accounts for Mauritius' development state success in Africa?". By looking at the link between institutional building and economic performance, the study finds that Mauritius has replicated key developmental state institutions, including embedded and autonomous bureaucracy, making it one of Africa's most successful developmental states.

Avrupa Birliği, kurgusal açıdan değerlendirildiği takdirde, yaşanmış felaketler sonucunda birden fazla devletin bir araya gelerek bir bütünlük oluşturmasını simgeleyen bir yapılanmadır. Bu kurgunun günümüzde geldiği nokta ise bütünleşmenin siyasi bir birlikteliğe doğru evrimleştiğidir. Ulus devletin uluslararası devlet şeklinde mi yoksa yerel devlet nitelemesiyle mi yeniden kurgulanacağının sorgusunun yapıldığı bu çalışmada varılmak istenen hedef merkeziyetçi devlet yapılanmasının sonunun geldiğinin ve yerine yerel seviyede örgütlenmiş devlet yapılanmasının Avrupa Birliği gibi ulus üstü bir örgütlenme aracılığıyla ortaya çıkmış olduğunun kurgusal izlerini takip etmektir. Bu bağlamda çalışmadan çıkarılan sonuç Avrupa Birliği'nin sahip olduğu dinamikleri ve üyelerinden beklediği yönetsel hedefleri ekseninde ortaya çıkan değerlere göre ulus devlet anlayışı ile beslenen merkeziyetçi devlet yapılanmasının yerini yerel seviyede örgütlenmiş yerel devlete bırakacağı öngörüsüdür. Böylece, çalışmanın alt benliğinde, merkeziyetçi yönetimlerin yerini yerel devletlere terk ederken bir üst yapılanmaya da ihtiyaç duyabileceklerinin kavramsal tartışmasının yapılması yer almaktadır. ; If it is judged from a fictional point of view the European Union is a constitution that symbolizes the formation of a unity of multiple states as a result of catastrophic events. The point of this fiction is that integration has evolved towards a political union. In this study, it is questioned whether the nation state will be reconstructed by international state or local state characterization. The aim of this study is to follow the fictitious traces of the end of the centralized state structure and the fact that the state structure organized at the local level has emerged through a supranational organization such as the European Union. In this context, the result of the study is shaped by the dynamics of the European Union and the managerial objectives that it expects from its members. According to this, it is the foresight that the centralized ...

The main objective of this article is to analyse the energy policies of partner countries of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS), established over two energy regions, within the context of "energy regionalism." The study, based on the premise that energy is one of the fundamental sources of motivation for the organisation, discusses the contributions of energy to the development and deepening of cooperation among the Turkic States. The paper explores the expectations of member countries from the organisation in terms of energy within the context of energy regionalism analysis criteria and seeks to answer questions regarding the level of fulfillment of these expectations. The findings suggest that the organisation has special importance in energy issues, with energy being a prominent subject in its written materials. The analysis reveals that the union broadly satisfies the criteria of energy regionalism, indicating the potential for implementing concrete cooperation projects related to energy among member countries in the medium term.

The European Union (EU) has been challenged by several crises lately. In addition to Brexit, the Euro crisis, and the migration crisis; global issues such as the coronavirus pandemic and the Russian attack on Ukraine affected the EU. The migration crisis, on the one hand, differs from the above-mentioned crises with one remarkable feature. The member states have no real consensus about forming a common migration policy. Besides, for geographic reasons, some member states put much more burden on immigrants. Agreeing on immigration becomes impossible for the border countries on the migration route and also transit countries. The paper argues that, unlike the other crises of the EU, the migration crisis reinforces EU integration in such a way that disputes between member states prevent the EU from making institutional changes about the issue. The study results assume that the other above-mentioned crises, on the other hand, stimulated institutional change throughout the EU. In light of this information, this study evaluates, using a method of relevant literature review and comparing the arguments of the researchers, how the migration issue became a subject of dispute between member states by evaluating the 2015 crisis.