Tuncay Kardas
Biographic Data
| ID | 2042979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tuncay Kardas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tuncay |
| FAMILY NAME | Kardas |
| SIGNATURE | KARDAS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sakarya University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7898-4722 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rethinking Iraq's Decision to Join the Baghdad Pact
What motivated the Iraqi ruling elite to engage in the Baghdad Pact as a defensive alliance in the Middle East? Students of Iraqi politics often base Iraq's engagement in the pact on the provisions of the system structure, such as regional security needs against the USSR or willingness to use the pact as leverage in relations with Britain. While certainly relevant, these explanations fail to explain how such international systemic pressures were,…
The Ottoman International System
This article posits that the Ottoman international system was built on three pillars: power projection, interconnectedness, and autonomy of frontier polities. While its military power projection dwarfed its great power rivals, cultural and organizational capacities of the Ottoman Empire extended its influence to areas out of its military reach. Occupying a central position in trade, pilgrimage, and diplomacy during the early modern period, the Ot…
Rethinking non-state armed actors and sovereignty
When Doves Feed Hawks
When does the war party win in the decision-making process? Why does the peace party lose even if war is too risky? In this article, we show that certain balancing acts of the peace party might increase the confidence of the war party. We examine how the Ottoman Empire’s risky Crimean War decision and its war declaration against Russia on 4 October 1853 were shaped by internal debating through time, foreign penetration, and dynamic interplay betw…
Mimicry and substitution in the logic of sovereignty
Understanding the July 2016 Military Coup
This study explores the link between religious identity and conflict in contemporary Turkey by examining the dramatic reversals in the relations between the country's two prominent Islamic social forces, the ruling party AKP and the Gülen Organization. It shows how a particular trajectory of power and identity between the two religious forces transformed into a brutal security competition in the Turkish society and polity. It puts the analytical …
Non-State Armed Actors in the Middle East
War Decision and Neoclassical Realism
Why did the fracturing Ottoman Empire enter the Great War? Why did the Ottomans drag their feet for a period of three months although the alliance treaty stipulated that the Ottomans should enter the war against Russia if the latter fought with Germany? This article sets forth a neoclassical realist analysis of the war decision by the members of Ottoman foreign policy executive as the outcome of dynamic interactions between the systemic stimuli/s…
Trump and the Rise of the Media-Industrial Complex in American Politics
Rethinking Kurdish geopolitical space
Global publics and local actors are increasingly saturated with variegated still and moving images. The important role played by images in world politics, however, remains understudied in the International Relations (IR) discipline. This article argues that the Kurdish geopolitical space is increasingly tied to a new regional and global imagination, which emanates from verbal–visual meaning-making strategies such as narrative reconstructions and …
Inter-societal security trilemma in Turkey
This article examines the inter-societal security trilemma among political Islamists, Kurdish actors, and the state in Turkey with a special reference to the failures in the Kurdish Opening that was initiated in 2009. While the Kurdish question is undoubtedly a long-standing multi-state and multi-causal ethno-political phenomenon, this study is primarily concerned with the identity–security-politics nexus. It addresses the question of how the pol…
No Laughing Matter
Few political debates have had so controversial an impact on the public imagination as the case of Ergenekon. The latter refers to an ongoing series of legal investigations into an alleged terroris
Rethinking Kurdish geopolitical space
Global publics and local actors are increasingly saturated with variegated still and moving images. The important role played by images in world politics, however, remains understudied in the International Relations (IR) discipline. This article argues that the Kurdish geopolitical space is increasingly tied to a new regional and global imagination, which emanates from verbal–visual meaning-making strategies such as narrative reconstructions and …
Inter-societal security trilemma in Turkey
This article examines the inter-societal security trilemma among political Islamists, Kurdish actors, and the state in Turkey with a special reference to the failures in the Kurdish Opening that was initiated in 2009. While the Kurdish question is undoubtedly a long-standing multi-state and multi-causal ethno-political phenomenon, this study is primarily concerned with the identity–security-politics nexus. It addresses the question of how the pol…
Understanding the July 2016 Military Coup
This study explores the link between religious identity and conflict in contemporary Turkey by examining the dramatic reversals in the relations between the country's two prominent Islamic social forces, the ruling party AKP and the Gülen Organization. It shows how a particular trajectory of power and identity between the two religious forces transformed into a brutal security competition in the Turkish society and polity. It puts the analytical …
War Decision and Neoclassical Realism
Why did the fracturing Ottoman Empire enter the Great War? Why did the Ottomans drag their feet for a period of three months although the alliance treaty stipulated that the Ottomans should enter the war against Russia if the latter fought with Germany? This article sets forth a neoclassical realist analysis of the war decision by the members of Ottoman foreign policy executive as the outcome of dynamic interactions between the systemic stimuli/s…
The Ottoman International System
This article posits that the Ottoman international system was built on three pillars: power projection, interconnectedness, and autonomy of frontier polities. While its military power projection dwarfed its great power rivals, cultural and organizational capacities of the Ottoman Empire extended its influence to areas out of its military reach. Occupying a central position in trade, pilgrimage, and diplomacy during the early modern period, the Ot…
No Laughing Matter
Few political debates have had so controversial an impact on the public imagination as the case of Ergenekon. The latter refers to an ongoing series of legal investigations into an alleged terroris
Inter-societal security trilemma in Turkey
This article examines the inter-societal security trilemma among political Islamists, Kurdish actors, and the state in Turkey with a special reference to the failures in the Kurdish Opening that was initiated in 2009. While the Kurdish question is undoubtedly a long-standing multi-state and multi-causal ethno-political phenomenon, this study is primarily concerned with the identity–security-politics nexus. It addresses the question of how the pol…
Trump and the Rise of the Media-Industrial Complex in American Politics
Rethinking Kurdish geopolitical space
Global publics and local actors are increasingly saturated with variegated still and moving images. The important role played by images in world politics, however, remains understudied in the International Relations (IR) discipline. This article argues that the Kurdish geopolitical space is increasingly tied to a new regional and global imagination, which emanates from verbal–visual meaning-making strategies such as narrative reconstructions and …
Non-State Armed Actors in the Middle East
War Decision and Neoclassical Realism
Why did the fracturing Ottoman Empire enter the Great War? Why did the Ottomans drag their feet for a period of three months although the alliance treaty stipulated that the Ottomans should enter the war against Russia if the latter fought with Germany? This article sets forth a neoclassical realist analysis of the war decision by the members of Ottoman foreign policy executive as the outcome of dynamic interactions between the systemic stimuli/s…
Understanding the July 2016 Military Coup
This study explores the link between religious identity and conflict in contemporary Turkey by examining the dramatic reversals in the relations between the country's two prominent Islamic social forces, the ruling party AKP and the Gülen Organization. It shows how a particular trajectory of power and identity between the two religious forces transformed into a brutal security competition in the Turkish society and polity. It puts the analytical …
Mimicry and substitution in the logic of sovereignty
Rethinking non-state armed actors and sovereignty
When Doves Feed Hawks
When does the war party win in the decision-making process? Why does the peace party lose even if war is too risky? In this article, we show that certain balancing acts of the peace party might increase the confidence of the war party. We examine how the Ottoman Empire’s risky Crimean War decision and its war declaration against Russia on 4 October 1853 were shaped by internal debating through time, foreign penetration, and dynamic interplay betw…
The Ottoman International System
This article posits that the Ottoman international system was built on three pillars: power projection, interconnectedness, and autonomy of frontier polities. While its military power projection dwarfed its great power rivals, cultural and organizational capacities of the Ottoman Empire extended its influence to areas out of its military reach. Occupying a central position in trade, pilgrimage, and diplomacy during the early modern period, the Ot…
Rethinking Iraq's Decision to Join the Baghdad Pact
What motivated the Iraqi ruling elite to engage in the Baghdad Pact as a defensive alliance in the Middle East? Students of Iraqi politics often base Iraq's engagement in the pact on the provisions of the system structure, such as regional security needs against the USSR or willingness to use the pact as leverage in relations with Britain. While certainly relevant, these explanations fail to explain how such international systemic pressures were,…
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