Gürol Baba
Biographic Data
| ID | 4098374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gürol Baba |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gürol |
| FAMILY NAME | Baba |
| SIGNATURE | BABA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ankara University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9664-2363 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Analyzing Türkiye’s strategic interests in the Indo-Pacific
China’s Expanding Influence in the Middle East
This article explores China’s evolving engagement in the Middle East. Historically, Western powers—especially the United States, with Britain and France—dominated the region. China’s recent steps—mediating the Saudi–Iran reconciliation, deepening trade and technology ties, and backing Palestinian statehood—reflect a strategy to build alternatives to US hegemony, grounded in sovereignty, non-interference and mutual benefit, often advanced through …
Introduction
Transregionalism, characterized by flexible, non-institutional cooperation across regions, contrasts with interregionalism's structured, rule-based interactions. New bilateralism, on the other hand, emerging post-Cold War, extends beyond economic governance to include strategic, security, and cultural dimensions, bypassing institutional constraints. This special issue examines the conceptual and practical complementarity of these frameworks in Mi…
The Novelty of Complementarity between Transregionalism and New Bilateralism
Transregionalism entails non-institutional, flexible cooperation across regions, contrasting with the more structured, rule-based approach of interregionalism. New bilateralism, which emerged after the Cold War, extends beyond economic governance to incorporate strategic, security, and cultural interactions, bypassing institutional constraints. This research aims to clarify the conceptual and practical complementarity of these two concepts and th…
Türkiye’s “-lateralisms” in Asia
This study aims to illustrate that multi-vectorial approaches in foreign policy could not only be practical but also productive for middle powers. With this aim, the study conceptualizes Turkish foreign policy in Asia with multi-vectorism, a foreign policy behavioral pattern that has been mainly utilized for post-Soviet countries’ concurrent interactions with the West (the EU, the U.S.) and the non-West (Russia). The study, firstly, argues that A…
Türkiye’s transregionalism with South Asia
El transregionalismo se relaciona con interacciones más laxas y menos institucionales, que funcionan a través de actores tanto estatales como no estatales. Su menor necesidad de instituciones multilaterales y basadas en las normas hace que el transregionalismo sea naturalmente flexible, multifacético y más orientado al bilateralismo. El entusiasmo de Türkiye por profundizar las relaciones con Asia, que quedó oficialmente plasmado en la iniciativa…
Introduction
The Middle East and South Asia can be defined as interlinked political spaces that experience deepening interactions of their energetic and ambitious regional powers together with the constant strategic competition of major global powers. This vibrancy has been relentlessly fuelled by the geo-economic/political/strategic, and humanitarian needs of these two regions' actors. Since there are no regional groupings effectively representing the two re…
Middle East-South Asia Relations
The politico-economically uneven structure, fragile inter-state affairs and weak regionalism of the Middle East make it difficult to explain its interactions with South Asia within a single theoretical pattern. Neither interregionalism nor multilateralism could illuminate these interactions individually. This study merges recently popularized interaction schemes of minilateralism and bilateralism on a transregional basis to provide an eclectic an…
The Wilsonian Moment at Lausanne, 1922–1923
This article discusses the background and diplomatic strategies of the Turkish delegation at Lausanne and their selective understanding of self-determination, excluding non-Turkic and non-Muslim people in Anatolia from the ‘self’ that has the right to determine its national existence. It also elaborates on the reasons why the Allies acknowledged this exclusion in the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923. We borrow from Erez Manela's interpretation of the ‘…
Resilience versus vulnerability
Regional Commonalities and Regional Identities
In the last two decades, most of the IR academia's attention on Southeast Asian regionalism utilised constructivism and/or realism and has focused on ASEAN and its derivatives. This article aims to skew this angle by elaborating a possible relationship between Asian values and a normative understanding of Southeast Asian identity. The major reason for this article's focus on a normative interpretation is that a practical application of Southeast …
Testing the creativity of Kevin Rudd's middle power diplomacy
The 2007 Australian Parliamentary Elections brought a new dynamic to Australia's foreign policy: the Kevin Rudd factor. The Prime Minister sought to develop a more proactive and multi-faceted foreign policy around 'Creative Middle Power Diplomacy'. This study aims to cast light on the dynamism in Australia's Foreign Policy with Kevin Rudd within the framework of middle power activism. The research firstly focuses on the difficulties of defining a…
Regional Commonalities and Regional Identities
In the last two decades, most of the IR academia's attention on Southeast Asian regionalism utilised constructivism and/or realism and has focused on ASEAN and its derivatives. This article aims to skew this angle by elaborating a possible relationship between Asian values and a normative understanding of Southeast Asian identity. The major reason for this article's focus on a normative interpretation is that a practical application of Southeast …
Middle East-South Asia Relations
The politico-economically uneven structure, fragile inter-state affairs and weak regionalism of the Middle East make it difficult to explain its interactions with South Asia within a single theoretical pattern. Neither interregionalism nor multilateralism could illuminate these interactions individually. This study merges recently popularized interaction schemes of minilateralism and bilateralism on a transregional basis to provide an eclectic an…
Testing the creativity of Kevin Rudd's middle power diplomacy
The 2007 Australian Parliamentary Elections brought a new dynamic to Australia's foreign policy: the Kevin Rudd factor. The Prime Minister sought to develop a more proactive and multi-faceted foreign policy around 'Creative Middle Power Diplomacy'. This study aims to cast light on the dynamism in Australia's Foreign Policy with Kevin Rudd within the framework of middle power activism. The research firstly focuses on the difficulties of defining a…
Testing the creativity of Kevin Rudd's middle power diplomacy
The 2007 Australian Parliamentary Elections brought a new dynamic to Australia's foreign policy: the Kevin Rudd factor. The Prime Minister sought to develop a more proactive and multi-faceted foreign policy around 'Creative Middle Power Diplomacy'. This study aims to cast light on the dynamism in Australia's Foreign Policy with Kevin Rudd within the framework of middle power activism. The research firstly focuses on the difficulties of defining a…
Regional Commonalities and Regional Identities
In the last two decades, most of the IR academia's attention on Southeast Asian regionalism utilised constructivism and/or realism and has focused on ASEAN and its derivatives. This article aims to skew this angle by elaborating a possible relationship between Asian values and a normative understanding of Southeast Asian identity. The major reason for this article's focus on a normative interpretation is that a practical application of Southeast …
Resilience versus vulnerability
The Wilsonian Moment at Lausanne, 1922–1923
This article discusses the background and diplomatic strategies of the Turkish delegation at Lausanne and their selective understanding of self-determination, excluding non-Turkic and non-Muslim people in Anatolia from the ‘self’ that has the right to determine its national existence. It also elaborates on the reasons why the Allies acknowledged this exclusion in the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923. We borrow from Erez Manela's interpretation of the ‘…
Türkiye’s transregionalism with South Asia
El transregionalismo se relaciona con interacciones más laxas y menos institucionales, que funcionan a través de actores tanto estatales como no estatales. Su menor necesidad de instituciones multilaterales y basadas en las normas hace que el transregionalismo sea naturalmente flexible, multifacético y más orientado al bilateralismo. El entusiasmo de Türkiye por profundizar las relaciones con Asia, que quedó oficialmente plasmado en la iniciativa…
Introduction
The Middle East and South Asia can be defined as interlinked political spaces that experience deepening interactions of their energetic and ambitious regional powers together with the constant strategic competition of major global powers. This vibrancy has been relentlessly fuelled by the geo-economic/political/strategic, and humanitarian needs of these two regions' actors. Since there are no regional groupings effectively representing the two re…
Middle East-South Asia Relations
The politico-economically uneven structure, fragile inter-state affairs and weak regionalism of the Middle East make it difficult to explain its interactions with South Asia within a single theoretical pattern. Neither interregionalism nor multilateralism could illuminate these interactions individually. This study merges recently popularized interaction schemes of minilateralism and bilateralism on a transregional basis to provide an eclectic an…
Türkiye’s “-lateralisms” in Asia
This study aims to illustrate that multi-vectorial approaches in foreign policy could not only be practical but also productive for middle powers. With this aim, the study conceptualizes Turkish foreign policy in Asia with multi-vectorism, a foreign policy behavioral pattern that has been mainly utilized for post-Soviet countries’ concurrent interactions with the West (the EU, the U.S.) and the non-West (Russia). The study, firstly, argues that A…
China’s Expanding Influence in the Middle East
This article explores China’s evolving engagement in the Middle East. Historically, Western powers—especially the United States, with Britain and France—dominated the region. China’s recent steps—mediating the Saudi–Iran reconciliation, deepening trade and technology ties, and backing Palestinian statehood—reflect a strategy to build alternatives to US hegemony, grounded in sovereignty, non-interference and mutual benefit, often advanced through …
Introduction
Transregionalism, characterized by flexible, non-institutional cooperation across regions, contrasts with interregionalism's structured, rule-based interactions. New bilateralism, on the other hand, emerging post-Cold War, extends beyond economic governance to include strategic, security, and cultural dimensions, bypassing institutional constraints. This special issue examines the conceptual and practical complementarity of these frameworks in Mi…
The Novelty of Complementarity between Transregionalism and New Bilateralism
Transregionalism entails non-institutional, flexible cooperation across regions, contrasting with the more structured, rule-based approach of interregionalism. New bilateralism, which emerged after the Cold War, extends beyond economic governance to incorporate strategic, security, and cultural interactions, bypassing institutional constraints. This research aims to clarify the conceptual and practical complementarity of these two concepts and th…
Analyzing Türkiye’s strategic interests in the Indo-Pacific
Political science (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Middle East (7 works) · Law (6 works) · International Development and Aid (5 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (4 works) · Bilateralism (4 works)