Murat Önsoy

Murat Önsoy
Hacettepe University · Department of International Relations

Doctor of Philosophy

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In liberal democracies, it is generally believed that policies are made in accordance with public opinion. Foreign policy decisions are no exception. While pursuing a certain path, decision-makers often have future elections in mind. As a result, public opinion becomes a determining factor in foreign policy-making processes. This paper, however, ta...
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The present study analyses the increasing involvement of the Bundeswehr in international civilian and military operations since the re-unification in 1990 with the aim of displaying the gradual loosening of the civilian power concept and the deeply engrained culture of military restraint in German foreign policy. It is argued that after the reunifi...
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Minority regulations in Bulgaria from the communist takeover to the end of the Stalinist era were shaped under the influence of socialist internationalist policies, which envisaged the preservation of ethnic and cultural differences for generating class solidarity among the Bulgarian citizens. However, in practice, the constitutional safeguards and...
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Research on small powers has composed a slim section of International Relations literature. More focus has been given on super, great, and middle powers since their interactions have more influence. Differentiating small from middle powers is also problematic, unlike distinguishing great powers from these two. The difficulty of choosing the “right”...
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Despite the European Union (EU)-sponsored economic and political reforms, the Western Balkans has made little to no progress in several fields, including post-conflict reconciliation, post-socialist economic transformation, and democracy. This situation threatens both regional stability and, more importantly, the EU integration process in the regio...
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The EU, which is commonly referred as a soft power, is facing various challenges that limit its effectiveness in the international scene, most importantly in the Western Balkans. The transformative capacity of its soft power is not properly utilized in this region. This article explores the challenges to the EU’s soft power and evaluates possible w...
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Turkey was one of the few countries that remained neutral during World War II. It was a big test for the government in Ankara since the rights of the wartime neutrals (particularly that of the small powers) were often ignored and they were labeled by the belligerents with such derogatory terms as “immoral free riders” or “war profiteers”. This arti...
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This article argues that in the last decade there is a visible decline in the political, normative and economic power of the European Union (EU) as a dominant actor in the Western Balkans (WB). Particularly the slowing down of the EU’s hegemonic project of Europeanization in the region created space for maneuver for other global and regional player...
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This chapter aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of Turkey’s relations with Latin American countries vis-à-vis the transformation of its foreign policy. While the first part traces the origins of relations back to the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, the second part focuses on the republican era. After enquiring into the re-establishment of...
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IR literature has proposed tangible and intangible criteria for defining and differentiating rankings of countries, albeit without much success. The literature's limited success is primarily due to the subjective, unclear and immeasurable qualities of these criteria. The differentiation between small powers and middle powers is particularly ambiguo...
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•Aydınlanma'nın Anlamı •Aydınlanma'nın Temel Unsurları •Fransız Aydınlanması •İskoç Aydınlanması •Alman Aydınlamas
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The western Balkans as a region is at the crossroads of the east-west energy transportation routes, and it is confronted with the simultaneous tasks of transforming its economic outlook and its energy infrastructure: a process that creates unique opportunities as well as challenges. By confronting these challenges and making the best use of its opp...
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this study demonstrates that turkey's reactions to the perilously escalating crisis in Ukraine resulted from Ankara's cost-benefit calculations based on domestic and international power balances under the influence of social, economic, and historical factors. By applying a coherent framework that identifies multiple and complex contributing factors...
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The general tendency in academic writing about the UN is to highlight its contribution to the maintenance of international peace and security, as well as its role in boosting economic, social and other forms of cooperation among states. One aspect that has been left rather in the shadow is the UN’s role in democracy promotion. This article explores...
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Fifteen years after the Dayton Peace Agreement, Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) is still not capable of solving major structural and political problems, and no progress has been achieved on the reforms that people believe will carry the country to success. Being unable to solve these problems leads further pending political, social and economic problems t...
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Economic character of "modern warfare" is too important to be underestimated. In the Economic Warfare belligerents attempt to reduce the war capacity of the enemy through various methods. In World War II crushing down the German war production and economy was the main target of the British Ministry of Economic Warfare. For Germany, one of the many...

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