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  1. What Drove Syria Back into the Arab Fold?

    Article • Middle East Policy, August 2023, Wiley

    Professor Bulent Aras

  2. The Mideast after Covid‐19: Governance and Geopolitics

    Article • Middle East Policy, September 2022, Wiley

    Professor Bulent Aras

  3. Qatar’s Development Cooperation and Least Developed Countries (LDCs)

    Article • Alternatives Global Local Political, April 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Bulent Aras

  4. The New Gulf Order: Crisis, Mediation, and Reconciliation

    Article • Middle East Policy, March 2021, Wiley

    Professor Bulent Aras

  5. The limits of institutionalizing predominance: understanding the emergence of Turkey’s new opposition

    Article • European Political Science, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bulent Aras

  6. Geopolitics of the New Middle East: Perspectives from Inside and Outside

    Article • Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, February 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bulent Aras

  7. Has the Arab Spring Spread to the Caucasus and Central Asia? Explaining Regional Diffusion and Authoritarian Resistance

    Article • Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, February 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bulent Aras

  8. The Crisis and Change in Turkish Foreign Policy After July 15

    Article • Alternatives Global Local Political, February 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Bulent Aras

  9. Turkey’s State Problem

    Article • Alternatives Global Local Political, February 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Bulent Aras

  10. Saudi Arabian‐Turkish Rivalry in the Middle East

    Article • Middle East Policy, December 2018, Wiley

    Professor Bulent Aras

  11. State, institutions and reform in Turkey after July 15

    Article • New Perspectives on Turkey, November 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Bulent Aras

  12. I/NGOs’ Assistance to Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Opportunities and Challenges

    Article • Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bulent Aras

  13. The Turkish government scholarship program as a soft power tool

    Article • Turkish Studies, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Zulkarnain Mohammed, Professor Bulent Aras

  14. Medical Humanitarianism of Turkey’s NGOS

    Article • Alternatives Global Local Political, November 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Bulent Aras

  15. Mideast Geopolitics: The Struggle for a New Order

    Article • Middle East Policy, June 2017, Wiley

    Professor Bulent Aras

  16. Five years after the Arab Spring: a critical evaluation

    Article • Third World Quarterly, September 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bulent Aras

  17. State, region and order: geopolitics of the Arab Spring

    Article • Third World Quarterly, July 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bulent Aras

  18. Turkey, the Arab Spring and Beyond

    Article • Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, July 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bulent Aras

  19. Practical Geopolitical Reasoning in the Turkish and Qatari Foreign Policy on the Arab Spring

    Article • Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, July 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bulent Aras

  20. Reform and Capacity Building in the Turkish Foreign Ministry: Bridging the Gap between Ideas and Institutions

    Article • Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, July 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bulent Aras

  21. Humanitarian NGOs in Turkey's Peacebuilding

    Article • International Peacekeeping, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Pınar Akpınar, Professor Bulent Aras

  22. Authoritarian ‘geopolitics’ of survival in the Arab Spring

    Article • Third World Quarterly, February 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bulent Aras

  23. Turkey and Iran after the Arab Spring: Finding a Middle Ground

    Article • Middle East Policy, December 2014, Wiley

    Professor Bulent Aras

  24. Davutoğlu Era in Turkish Foreign Policy Revisited

    Article • Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bulent Aras

  25. The New Geopolitics of Eurasia and Turkey's Position

    Article • January 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bulent Aras

  26. Turkey and the Arab Spring

    Article • International Journal Canada s Journal of Global Policy Analysis, March 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Bulent Aras

  27. Turkey’s new dynamics in domestic and foreign policy

    Article • Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, March 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bulent Aras, Professor Sule Toktas

  28. National role conceptions and foreign policy orientation: the ideational bases of the Justice and Development Party's foreign policy activism in the Middle East

    Article • Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, March 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bulent Aras

  29. THE EUROPEANIZATION OF MINORITY RIGHTS IN TURKEY: NON-MUSLIM MINORITIES AND THE EU ACCESSION PROCESS

    Article • Political Science Quarterly, December 2009, Wiley

    Professor Bulent Aras, Professor Sule Toktas

  30. Azerbaijan's Far Eastern orientation and South Korea

    Article • Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, September 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bulent Aras

  31. Turkey's rise in the Greater Middle East: peace-building in the periphery

    Article • Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, March 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bulent Aras

  32. From Conflict to Cooperation: Desecuritization of Turkey's Relations with Syria and Iran

    Article • Security Dialogue, October 2008, SAGE Publications

    Professor Bulent Aras

  33. AFGHANISTAN’S SECURITY: POLITICAL PROCESS, STATE-BUILDING AND NARCOTICS

    Article • Middle East Policy, June 2008, Wiley

    Professor Bulent Aras, Professor Sule Toktas

  34. The limits of the Russian–Iranian strategic alliance: its history and geopolitics, and the nuclear issue

    Article • Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, March 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bulent Aras

  35. Turkey and the Middle East: frontiers of the new geographic imagination

    Article • Australian Journal Of International Affairs, December 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bulent Aras

  36. AL-QAIDA, WAR ON TERROR AND TURKEY

    Article • Third World Quarterly, July 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bulent Aras, Professor Sule Toktas

  37. Dances with Wolves: Russia, Iran and the Nuclear Issue

    Article • Middle East Policy, December 2006, Wiley

    Professor Bulent Aras

  38. Turkey and the GCC: An Emerging Relationshiop

    Article • Middle East Policy, December 2005, Wiley

    Professor Bulent Aras

  39. The future of liberal Islam

    Article • Futures, November 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Bulent Aras

  40. Exile: A Keyword in Understanding Turkish Politics

    Article • The Muslim World, September 2002, Wiley

    Professor Bulent Aras

  41. The Mystery of Turkish Hizballah

    Article • Middle East Policy, June 2002, Wiley

    Professor Bulent Aras

  42. The Caspian Region and Middle East Security

    Article • Mediterranean Quarterly, March 2002, Duke University Press

    Professor Bulent Aras

  43. The rise of nationalist action party and Turkish politics

    Article • Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, December 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bulent Aras

  44. Book reviews

    Article • Turkish Studies, September 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bulent Aras

  45. Turkish-Israeli-Iranian Relations in the Nineties: Impact on the Middle East

    Article • Middle East Policy, June 2000, Wiley

    Professor Bulent Aras

  46. Turkey's policy in the former Soviet south: Assets and options

    Article • Turkish Studies, March 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Bulent Aras

  47. POST-COLD WAR REALITIES: ISRAEL'S STRATEGY IN AZERBAIJAN AND CENTRAL ASIA

    Article • Middle East Policy, January 1998, Wiley

    Professor Bulent Aras

  48. The Impediments to Establish an Energy-Regime in Caucasia

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Bulent Aras