Nasuh Sofuoglu

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University · Department of International Relations

Emotions and ontological security open up one of the latest avenues in International Relations (IR). An increasing number of interdisciplinary approaches have been engaging in emotions and ontological security, for example, foreign policy analysis. However, academic research is scarce concerning the triangulation of emotions, foreign policy, and in...

This article locates the rising tensions between Greece and Turkey in the milieu of increasing ontological insecurity in the European periphery. Building on the growing literature on ontological security in IR, we argue that the dissipation of Europe as a framework of meaning and identity in the European periphery has generated ontological insecuri...

The paper aims to shed light on how a region may be built out of the Black Sea area. Therefore, the paper asks, first, whether the Black Sea area is a region or a region-to-be. If neither, then how to transform the Black Sea area into a region through the context of 'new regionalism' and the relevant theories. First, it delves into defining what it...

The foundations of regionalism have always been in flux just as the meanings, ascribed to things by people, evolve in time. The goal of the paper is to draw up a blueprint for how to delineate the term "region" and resort to it to comprehend whether the Middle East is a region or not, thus making future short-term and long-term predictions about th...

The number of city dwellers has become more than half of the contemporary world population since people have been pouring into urban areas for centuries. This drastic alteration of lifestyle has had an enormous impact on humanity as such demographic trends have always had prodigious effect on peoples. Therefore, the future of humanity, implicitly o...