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"There are numerous discussions on both the reality and impact of cyberwar. Most of the critics are based on the Clausewitzian perspective of war in which its political nature must exist, an act of war has to be characteristically violent and has instrumental purposefulness. Therefore cyberwar is generally regarded as a conduct of action that simply doesn't match with these Clausewitzian criteria of war. However during the last two decades, with the advancement of information technology and widening connecters of the world, many incidents such as Estonian and Georgian cases of cyberattacks, Stuxnet worms, and many other politically motivated cyberattacks, show us that we need to think carefully about the terminology that being used by scholars, experts and policy makers. In this chapter, I aim to discuss about the term 'cyberwar' within a broader theory of war in International Relations studies. In doing so, my aim is to bring together related International Relations Theories and the contemporary cyberwar discussion and discuss the issue within a theoretical perspective." (author's abstract)

This article deals with Turkey's status politics since the 2000s, by employing an aspirational constructivist approach that links social psychology with social constructivism in international relations. It focuses on the temporal side of status, stemming from historical identity construction in Turkish foreign policy (TFP) rhetoric and practices under the rule of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) since 2002. Turkey's status politics is motivated by its past legacies rather than by a peer-to-peer comparison. Therefore, different variances and practices of identity politics in TFP offer valuable insights into its status-seeking practices. The article offers five images of the past that define various role sets and status claims for Turkey.

Since the end of the Cold War, the study of regions has become a major preoccupation of political scientists. And yet, regionalism still means many different things to many different peoples in too many different contexts. Nonetheless, economic interdependences through trade and other intraregional activities is one of the main pillar of regionalization in any given example. The driving impulse of this paper is that there is a hypothetical relation with emerging regional economic relations and regionalism. That is, regionalism and emerging regional economic activities self-enforcing phenomena at least on theoretical front. In this sense, it is sensible to look at the some of the trade and economic statistics to determine the state of regionalization in the Black Sea. Therefore, this paper first tries to demarcate "Black Sea Region" and possible sub regions than will comparatively analyses the economic regionalization process by comparing some other regions and sub regions. The main finding of the paper suggests that fundamentally due to the fact that every member of Black Sea regions has been engaging with other exclusive regionalization movements, regionalization in the wider Black Sea is weak and underdeveloped.

"Examining the interplay between the domestic, regional and global aspects of the crisis of legitimacy of global governance, this book theoretically questions and empirically analyses the "crises of legitimacy" in global governance with respect to various mechanisms, actors, and issues. It expertly sheds lights on contemporary legitimacy contestations and crises by analysing conceptual, theoretical and empirical aspects of the legitimacy in global governance. The specific issues and case studies collected in this volume survey the evolving nature of legitimacy and legitimization processes in global governance with historical, and theoretical analysis. Perspectives on specific actors and issues provide vital insights for understanding several commonalities and differences of legitimacy crises faced at various global governance mechanisms. Improving the understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of current global governance bodies by showing several legitimacy contestations and crises at global and regional level, this book will be of great interest to scholars of international relations, globalization, international Political Economy, regionalism, and general global governance studies"--

Employing a rigorous bibliometric framework, this study undertakes a comprehensive exploration of scholarly inquiries into Turkish Foreign Policy (TFP) by utilizing an extensive dataset extracted from the reputable SCOPUS database. TFP publications in various languages were scrutinized over nearly a century, from 1939 to 2022, with bibliometric analysis methodically traversing titles, keywords, abstracts, word frequencies, references, authorships, citations, and geographic diffusion. To comprehensively unravel the scholarly landscape, we employed three bibliometric methodologies: descriptive statistics, network analysis, and textual analysis. The overarching goals included delineating the contours of the TFP scholarly community, charting the evolution of influential factors across temporal horizons, and gauging the extent of collaborative interactions among TFP researchers. Our findings reveal the absence of a cohesive TFP research community within the Turkish academic landscape, which unequivocally underscores the fragility of Turkish International Relations (IR) academia in terms of scientific collaboration, academic networking, and research productivity. Our findings distinctly underscore the fragmentary nature of the TFP research community in terms of thematic breadth and practical manifestations. The conspicuous dearth of cross-referencing among Turkish IR scholars, limited joint scientific ventures, and scholarly output collectively underpin inherent vulnerabilities and constraints within the TFP community.

Online social networking services (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.) have altered
the way we engage with individuals, groups, and communities by profoundly
changing our everyday information and communication habits on a global scale.
Today, social media has also grown into a massive data repository providing very
detailed information on the opinions, beliefs, and communications of millions of
individuals. Similarly, social media analysis has grown into an essential method
for various fields, including political science and international relations. The
purpose of this study is to undertake a nuanced social media analysis using Twitter
data to contextualize and assess the context, scope, and impact of Turkish IR
scholars' interactions on Twitter. Within the scope of the paper, network analysis,
topic modeling, descriptive statistics, and regression analysis approaches will
be employed to draw meaningful interpretations about their Twitter interactions.
Our basic premise is that among Turkish IR scholars, there is a collective network
that connects them in terms of interactions, attitudes, and opinions, and that
network may be found by analyzing their Twitter data. This working assumption
is not supported by the findings.

"This book sheds new light on the security challenges for failed states posed by violent non-state armed actors (VNSAs). By focusing on the Syrian Civil War, it explores the characteristics, ideologies and strategies of the Islamic State (ISIS) and the People's Protection Units (YPG), as well as the regional and geopolitical impacts of these VNSAs. The contributors also cover topics such as the re-imagination of borders, the YPG's demands for national sovereignty, and the involvement of regional and global powers in the Syrian crisis"--Back cover