Nur Koprulu
Biographic Data
| ID | 1403551 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nur Koprulu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nur |
| FAMILY NAME | Koprulu |
| SIGNATURE | KOPRULU N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Near East University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6978-1891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Policy diffusion in unlikely places
This article utilizes policy diffusion theory to understand the policy processes in de facto states, specifically, to investigate policy-making in the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC),’ examining whether policies diffused to the ‘TRNC’ and which mechanisms are responsible for diffusion. Although one might expect that lack of recognition limits the diffusion of policies to de facto states, the findings suggest that the ‘TRNC’ has been q…
Jordan's Stability and Regime Survival amid the War on Palestinians
The war in Gaza and the escalation of conflict across the Middle East have once again demonstrated that Jordan's stability is closely intertwined with the Palestinian issue. This article contends that the retreat from a two‐state solution and the growing public protests are perceived by the regime as an existential threat. Since 1988, the kingdom has consolidated its identity around King Hussein's declaration, “Jordan is not Palestine.” Thus, any…
The quest to end marginalization
Since 2017 Jordan has been diversifying its alignments while its relations with its traditional backers have become tenser. Drawing upon the existing literature that explains Jordan's alignment choices, this article aims to understand Jordan's diversification of its alignments and how they evolved in the post-Arab Uprisings era. It is argued that although the regime security argument and the linkage between external and internal threats for expla…
Back to Basics
Utilizing the theory of securitization and security sectors of the Copenhagen School, this article analyses the re-securitization process of Turkish foreign policy on Cyprus after the collapse of the peace talks at the Crans Montana Conference in 2017. The failure of the negotiation process to reach a solution based on the UN Parameters and the subsequent outbreak of the Arab Uprisings in 2011 along with the rivalry that arose over the exploratio…
Déjà Vu in the Kingdom of Jordan
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutes a remarkable case of regime stability in the Middle East and North Africa region. The 2011 Arab Uprisings that swept through most of the countries in the Arab Middle East did not engulf the Kingdom of Jordan, as foreseen. At the height of the protests, Jordan employed a decades-old regime-survival strategy to cope with increased opposition. Having said that, the June protests in 2018 and the subsequent …
Is the Arab Spring over? Unpacking perceptions of democracy, elections and regime-types in Mena countries
One of the main questions that has resurfaced in the post-2011 Arab Uprisings era has been to what extent these public protests and the popular calls for political opening would result in democratization in the MENA region. Despite the conventional arguments that explain the persistence of authoritarian regimes as a derivate of cultural authenticity and patriarchy, the Arab Uprisings have unlocked the threshold of fear, and given rise to a new mo…
Turkish‐Jordanian Relations
Relations between Turkey and the Kingdom of Jordan have been among the most stable in the Middle East. This article argues that, nevertheless, the relationship gained momentum following the Arab uprisings, which forced both countries to tackle mounting security concerns. One major challenge has been the influx of a huge number of Syrian refugees accompanying the continued instability in Syria, as well as the prolonged Palestinian‐Israeli dispute …
The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan
The Muslim Brotherhood (al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin) has attracted considerable academic as well as political attention in the post-2011 Arab uprisings era, partly because of their electoral victories in Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco, and partly due to the perennial debate over whether Islam is hospitable to democracy or not. Having said that, the downfall of Egypt's Ikhwan-affiliated Justice and Freedom Party (JFP), led by Mohamed Morsi, has raised ques…
The unfinished Arab Spring
The unfinished Arab Spring: Micro-dynamics of revolts between change and continuity." Mediterranean Politics, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Rethinking narratives on Islam in North Cyprus
North Cyprus, which has experienced perennial conflict since 1963, has recently been witness to heated debates revolving around the role of Islam in making and re-configuring Turkish Cypriots’ social and political landscape. The reason behind such debates derives from the historical narrative established on a Kemalist-secular understanding of religion among the Turkish Cypriot community vis-à-vis the conservative-Islamist narrative. This article …
Years of Jordan-Israel peace-making
2019 marked the 25th anniversary of normalizing Jordanian-Israeli relations and the ‘warm’ peace-making between the two countries. Representing key partners and neighbours in the Middle East, Jordan and Israel have maintained political and economic ties since 1994. The pro-Western stance of both countries, and their common interest in maintaining regional stability, led Jordan and Israel to pursue similar foreign policy aims regarding various reg…
Jerusalem and Jordan
Turkey’s new identity revisited and its Islamist reflections in North Cyprus
Some scholars argue that Turkish foreign policy has undergone a structural change since 2002. This shift in Turkey’s identity is primarily linked to the ascendancy of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi – AKP) and its proactive foreign policy towards Turkey’s eastern neighbourhood. The change in Turkey’s identity and foreign policy is mostly intertwined with the Islamist identity embraced by the AKP, which can be traced …
Are Monarchies Exceptional to the Arab Uprisings? The Resilience of Moroccan Monarchy Revisited
With the onset of the Arab uprisings at the end of 2010 and the emergence of popular demonstrations that raised the issue of crises of legitimacy across the Arab states, the literature on democratization in the Middle East and North African (MENA) studies has taken on new dimensions recently. One of the primary theoretical debates that has surfaced in the post-2011 era has revolved around on whether or not the demonstrations will lead to regime c…
Quality of democracy in unrecognized states
Scholars have recently debated whether non-recognition is a blessing or a curse for democracy. Some suggest that lack of recognition forces political elites to democratize and acquire internal legitimacy to compensate for the lack of external legitimacy. Others suggest that democratization is used as a strategy by which to acquire international recognition. Still others claim that non-recognition obliges unrecognized states to rely on a patron st…
Drawing Cyprus
In order to capture how young people in northern Cyprus see the Cyprus Question, we asked more than 300 students to ‘draw Cyprus’ and surveyed their political attitudes, as well as their identities and preferences for the future of the island. The results show that the Turkish Cypriot students, in comparison with the students from Turkey and from the other countries, are more supportive of a decentralized federative structure, identify themselves…
Electoral Pluralism, Social Division and the 2016 Parliamentary Elections in Jordan
Representing one of the most stable regimes in the Middle East, Jordan has been undergoing a process of political liberalization since 1989. Due to the so-called East Bank-West Bank cleavage that followed by the influx of Palestinian migrants to Jordan, the country has also come to epitomize a divided society. Within this context, this paper aims to analyze the ongoing prospects for democratization in Jordan through an examination of four persist…
Consolidated monarchies in the post-‘Arab Spring’ era
The Arab monarchies remain relatively stable, largely unaffected by the ‘Arab Spring’ upheavals. In particular, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has emerged relatively unscathed from the region's uprisings. The Jordanian case helps underscore the extent to which the polarization between Palestinian-Jordanians and native Jordanians continues to dominate the nature of public debate and political reform. While initially the ‘Arab Spring’ generated a …
Jordan since the Uprisings
Consolidated monarchies in the post-‘Arab Spring’ era
The Arab monarchies remain relatively stable, largely unaffected by the ‘Arab Spring’ upheavals. In particular, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has emerged relatively unscathed from the region's uprisings. The Jordanian case helps underscore the extent to which the polarization between Palestinian-Jordanians and native Jordanians continues to dominate the nature of public debate and political reform. While initially the ‘Arab Spring’ generated a …
Rethinking narratives on Islam in North Cyprus
North Cyprus, which has experienced perennial conflict since 1963, has recently been witness to heated debates revolving around the role of Islam in making and re-configuring Turkish Cypriots’ social and political landscape. The reason behind such debates derives from the historical narrative established on a Kemalist-secular understanding of religion among the Turkish Cypriot community vis-à-vis the conservative-Islamist narrative. This article …
Years of Jordan-Israel peace-making
2019 marked the 25th anniversary of normalizing Jordanian-Israeli relations and the ‘warm’ peace-making between the two countries. Representing key partners and neighbours in the Middle East, Jordan and Israel have maintained political and economic ties since 1994. The pro-Western stance of both countries, and their common interest in maintaining regional stability, led Jordan and Israel to pursue similar foreign policy aims regarding various reg…
Jordan since the Uprisings
Drawing Cyprus
In order to capture how young people in northern Cyprus see the Cyprus Question, we asked more than 300 students to ‘draw Cyprus’ and surveyed their political attitudes, as well as their identities and preferences for the future of the island. The results show that the Turkish Cypriot students, in comparison with the students from Turkey and from the other countries, are more supportive of a decentralized federative structure, identify themselves…
Is the Arab Spring over? Unpacking perceptions of democracy, elections and regime-types in Mena countries
One of the main questions that has resurfaced in the post-2011 Arab Uprisings era has been to what extent these public protests and the popular calls for political opening would result in democratization in the MENA region. Despite the conventional arguments that explain the persistence of authoritarian regimes as a derivate of cultural authenticity and patriarchy, the Arab Uprisings have unlocked the threshold of fear, and given rise to a new mo…
Are Monarchies Exceptional to the Arab Uprisings? The Resilience of Moroccan Monarchy Revisited
With the onset of the Arab uprisings at the end of 2010 and the emergence of popular demonstrations that raised the issue of crises of legitimacy across the Arab states, the literature on democratization in the Middle East and North African (MENA) studies has taken on new dimensions recently. One of the primary theoretical debates that has surfaced in the post-2011 era has revolved around on whether or not the demonstrations will lead to regime c…
Consolidated monarchies in the post-‘Arab Spring’ era
The Arab monarchies remain relatively stable, largely unaffected by the ‘Arab Spring’ upheavals. In particular, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has emerged relatively unscathed from the region's uprisings. The Jordanian case helps underscore the extent to which the polarization between Palestinian-Jordanians and native Jordanians continues to dominate the nature of public debate and political reform. While initially the ‘Arab Spring’ generated a …
Jordan since the Uprisings
Quality of democracy in unrecognized states
Scholars have recently debated whether non-recognition is a blessing or a curse for democracy. Some suggest that lack of recognition forces political elites to democratize and acquire internal legitimacy to compensate for the lack of external legitimacy. Others suggest that democratization is used as a strategy by which to acquire international recognition. Still others claim that non-recognition obliges unrecognized states to rely on a patron st…
Drawing Cyprus
In order to capture how young people in northern Cyprus see the Cyprus Question, we asked more than 300 students to ‘draw Cyprus’ and surveyed their political attitudes, as well as their identities and preferences for the future of the island. The results show that the Turkish Cypriot students, in comparison with the students from Turkey and from the other countries, are more supportive of a decentralized federative structure, identify themselves…
Electoral Pluralism, Social Division and the 2016 Parliamentary Elections in Jordan
Representing one of the most stable regimes in the Middle East, Jordan has been undergoing a process of political liberalization since 1989. Due to the so-called East Bank-West Bank cleavage that followed by the influx of Palestinian migrants to Jordan, the country has also come to epitomize a divided society. Within this context, this paper aims to analyze the ongoing prospects for democratization in Jordan through an examination of four persist…
Turkey’s new identity revisited and its Islamist reflections in North Cyprus
Some scholars argue that Turkish foreign policy has undergone a structural change since 2002. This shift in Turkey’s identity is primarily linked to the ascendancy of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi – AKP) and its proactive foreign policy towards Turkey’s eastern neighbourhood. The change in Turkey’s identity and foreign policy is mostly intertwined with the Islamist identity embraced by the AKP, which can be traced …
Are Monarchies Exceptional to the Arab Uprisings? The Resilience of Moroccan Monarchy Revisited
With the onset of the Arab uprisings at the end of 2010 and the emergence of popular demonstrations that raised the issue of crises of legitimacy across the Arab states, the literature on democratization in the Middle East and North African (MENA) studies has taken on new dimensions recently. One of the primary theoretical debates that has surfaced in the post-2011 era has revolved around on whether or not the demonstrations will lead to regime c…
Jerusalem and Jordan
The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan
The Muslim Brotherhood (al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin) has attracted considerable academic as well as political attention in the post-2011 Arab uprisings era, partly because of their electoral victories in Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco, and partly due to the perennial debate over whether Islam is hospitable to democracy or not. Having said that, the downfall of Egypt's Ikhwan-affiliated Justice and Freedom Party (JFP), led by Mohamed Morsi, has raised ques…
The unfinished Arab Spring
The unfinished Arab Spring: Micro-dynamics of revolts between change and continuity." Mediterranean Politics, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Rethinking narratives on Islam in North Cyprus
North Cyprus, which has experienced perennial conflict since 1963, has recently been witness to heated debates revolving around the role of Islam in making and re-configuring Turkish Cypriots’ social and political landscape. The reason behind such debates derives from the historical narrative established on a Kemalist-secular understanding of religion among the Turkish Cypriot community vis-à-vis the conservative-Islamist narrative. This article …
Years of Jordan-Israel peace-making
2019 marked the 25th anniversary of normalizing Jordanian-Israeli relations and the ‘warm’ peace-making between the two countries. Representing key partners and neighbours in the Middle East, Jordan and Israel have maintained political and economic ties since 1994. The pro-Western stance of both countries, and their common interest in maintaining regional stability, led Jordan and Israel to pursue similar foreign policy aims regarding various reg…
Déjà Vu in the Kingdom of Jordan
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan constitutes a remarkable case of regime stability in the Middle East and North Africa region. The 2011 Arab Uprisings that swept through most of the countries in the Arab Middle East did not engulf the Kingdom of Jordan, as foreseen. At the height of the protests, Jordan employed a decades-old regime-survival strategy to cope with increased opposition. Having said that, the June protests in 2018 and the subsequent …
Is the Arab Spring over? Unpacking perceptions of democracy, elections and regime-types in Mena countries
One of the main questions that has resurfaced in the post-2011 Arab Uprisings era has been to what extent these public protests and the popular calls for political opening would result in democratization in the MENA region. Despite the conventional arguments that explain the persistence of authoritarian regimes as a derivate of cultural authenticity and patriarchy, the Arab Uprisings have unlocked the threshold of fear, and given rise to a new mo…
Turkish‐Jordanian Relations
Relations between Turkey and the Kingdom of Jordan have been among the most stable in the Middle East. This article argues that, nevertheless, the relationship gained momentum following the Arab uprisings, which forced both countries to tackle mounting security concerns. One major challenge has been the influx of a huge number of Syrian refugees accompanying the continued instability in Syria, as well as the prolonged Palestinian‐Israeli dispute …
Back to Basics
Utilizing the theory of securitization and security sectors of the Copenhagen School, this article analyses the re-securitization process of Turkish foreign policy on Cyprus after the collapse of the peace talks at the Crans Montana Conference in 2017. The failure of the negotiation process to reach a solution based on the UN Parameters and the subsequent outbreak of the Arab Uprisings in 2011 along with the rivalry that arose over the exploratio…
The quest to end marginalization
Since 2017 Jordan has been diversifying its alignments while its relations with its traditional backers have become tenser. Drawing upon the existing literature that explains Jordan's alignment choices, this article aims to understand Jordan's diversification of its alignments and how they evolved in the post-Arab Uprisings era. It is argued that although the regime security argument and the linkage between external and internal threats for expla…
Policy diffusion in unlikely places
This article utilizes policy diffusion theory to understand the policy processes in de facto states, specifically, to investigate policy-making in the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC),’ examining whether policies diffused to the ‘TRNC’ and which mechanisms are responsible for diffusion. Although one might expect that lack of recognition limits the diffusion of policies to de facto states, the findings suggest that the ‘TRNC’ has been q…
Jordan's Stability and Regime Survival amid the War on Palestinians
The war in Gaza and the escalation of conflict across the Middle East have once again demonstrated that Jordan's stability is closely intertwined with the Palestinian issue. This article contends that the retreat from a two‐state solution and the growing public protests are perceived by the regime as an existential threat. Since 1988, the kingdom has consolidated its identity around King Hussein's declaration, “Jordan is not Palestine.” Thus, any…
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