SSCI & AHCI Articles

  1. “National Role Conceptions and Foreign Policy Orientation: The Ideational Bases of the Justice and Development Party's Foreign Policy Activism in the Middle East,” Journal of Balkans and Near East Studies, 12 (1), 2010: 73-92. (with Aylin Gorener). PDF
  2.  “The Return of Russian-African Relations,” Bilig, 52, Winter 2010: 47-68.  (with Hakan Fidan). PDF
  3.  “The EU and Minority Rights in Turkey,” Political Science Quarterly, 124 (4):  2009/10: 697-720. (with Sule Toktas). PDF
  4. “Azerbaijan’s Far Eastern Orientation and South Korea,” Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, 21 (3), 2009: 329-343. (with Reha Yılmaz). PDF
  5. “Turkey and Eurasia: Frontiers of a New Geographic Imagination,” New Perspectives on Turkey, (40): 2009, 195-217. (with Hakan Fidan). PDF
  6. “Turkey’s Rise in the Greater Middle East: Peace-Building in the Periphery” Journal of Balkans and Near East Studies, 11 (1), Winter 2009: 29-41. PDF
  7.  “From Conflict to Cooperation: De-securitization of Turkey’s Relations with Syria and Iran,” Security Dialogue, 39 (5): Fall 2008: 475-495: (with Rabia Karakaya Polat). PDF
  8. “Afghanistan’s Security: Political Process, State-Building and Narcotics,” Middle East Policy, 15 (2): Summer 2008: 39-52 (with Sule Toktas). PDF
  9. “The Limits of the Russian-Iranian Strategic Alliance: its History and Geopolitics, and the Nuclear Issue,” Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, 20 (1): Winter 2008: 47-62. (with Fatih Ozbay). PDF
  10. “Polish-Russian Relations: History, Geography and Geopolitics,” East European Quarterly, 42 (1): March 2008: 27-42. (with Fatih Ozbay). PDF
  11. "Turkey and the Middle East: Frontiers of the New Geographic Imagination," Australian Journal of International Affairs, 61 (4), December 2007: 471-488. (with Rabia Karakaya Polat) PDF
  12. “Al-Qaida, War on Terror and Turkey,” Third World Quarterly, 28 (5), June 2007: 1033-1050. (with Sule Toktas). PDF
  13. “Dances with Wolves: Russia and Iranian Nuclear Issue,” Middle East Policy, 13 (4), Winter 2006: 132-147. (with Fatih Ozbay) PDF
  14. “Turkey, EU and the Middle East: Is Harmonization Possible” East European Quarterly, 40 (3), September 2006: 367-381 (with Salih Bicakci). PDF
  15. “Turkey and Gulf Cooperation Council,” Middle East Policy, 12 (4), Winter 2005: 89-97. PDF
  16. “Future of Liberal Islam,” Futures, 36 (9), Fall 2004: 1034-37. PDF
  17. “The Mystery of Turkish Hizballah,” Middle East Policy, 9 (2), 2002: 147-161 (with Gokhan Bacik) PDF
  18. “Exile: A Keyword to Understand Turkish Politics,” Muslim World, 92 (3), Fall 2002: 387-406. (with Gokhan Bacik). PDF
  19. “Turkish-Israeli-Iranian Relations in the 1990s and Their Impact on the Middle East,” Middle East Policy, 7 (3), 2000: 151-165. PDF
  20. “Post-Cold War Realities: Israel’s Strategy in Azerbaijan and Central Asia,” Middle East Policy, 5(1), 1998: 68-82 PDF

Other Selected Articles

  1. “Turkey after Copenhagen: Walking a Tightrope,” Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, 5 (2), 2003: 147-168. (with Bülent Gökay) PDF
  2. “Turkey and the Palestinian Question since Al-Aqsa Intifada,” Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations, 1(3), 2002: 49-63. PDF
  3. “Turkish-Syrian Relations Revisited,” Arab Studies Quarterly, 24 (4) 2002: 47-61. (with Hasan Koni) PDF
  4. “Academic Perceptions of Turkish-Israeli Relations,” Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations, 1(1), 2002: 1-17. PDF
  5. “The Caspian Region and Middle East Security,” Mediterranean Quarterly, 13 (1), 2002: 86-109. PDF
  6. “Turkish Foreign Policy towards Iran: Ideology and Foreign Policy in Flux," Journal of Third World Studies, 18 (1), 2001: 105-124. PDF
  7. “Transformation of Iranian Political System: Towards an Alternative Model,” MERIA Journal, 5 (3), 2001: 12-21. PDF
  8. “Caspian Riches and Gulf Security,” Brown Journal of World Affairs, 7 (2), 2000: 79-92. PDF
  9. “Turkish Foreign Policy and Jerusalem: Towards a Societal Construction of Foreign Policy,” Arab Studies Quarterly, 23 (4), 2000: 31-59. PDF
  10. “The Rise of the Nationalist Action Party and Turkish Politics,” Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, 6 (4), 2000: 48-63. (with Gokhan Bacik) PDF