Berdal Aral
Biographic Data
| ID | 4120898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Berdal Aral |
| GIVEN NAMES | Berdal |
| FAMILY NAME | Aral |
| SIGNATURE | ARAL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Istanbul Medeniyet University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6736-5237 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Uluslararası Hukuk Bağlamında Birleşmiş Milletler’in Batı ve Doğu Kudüs’ün İsrail Tarafından İşgaline Yönelik Tutumu
Bu makalede, uluslararası barış ve güvenliğin korunması hususunda kendisine aslî bir sorumluluk yüklenmiş olan Birleşmiş Milletler ’in (BM), Filistin topraklarının önce Siyonist terör grupları, sonra İsrail tarafından işgali karşısında almış olduğu tutum, hususiyetle Batı ve Doğu Kudüs’e odaklanılarak ele alınmaktadır. Burada ortaya konan bulgular, hem Soğuk Savaş boyunca hem de sonrasında Güvenlik Konseyi’nin ve Genel Kurul’un Siyonist devletin …
Turkey’s Voting Preferences in the UN General Assembly During the AK Party Era as a Counterchallenge to Its ‘New’ Foreign Policy
This article traces the Turkish voting preferences in the UN General Assembly during the AK Party era between 2002 and 2020. It seeks to understand as to whether there is a congruence between Turkey’s critical view of international society as epitomized by Tayyip Erdoğan’s motto, 'The World is Bigger Than Five', and the way Turkish representatives voted during the same period in the UN General Assembly on questions such as nuclear disarmament, se…
Israel’s Fateful March
This article delves into the legal discussions surrounding the crisis unleashed by the military operation launched on October 7, 2023, in Southern Israel by Palestinian forces of the resistance based in Gaza. Israel considered this a “terrorist attack,” asserted the right of self-defense, declared war on Gazans, and started the continuous and indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza. As a result, Gaza has become the new Dresden, in which thousands have…
Rethinking the Palestinian Problem and the ‘Right Strategy’ for Palestinian Liberation
The Palestinian tragedy is not simply a matter of one nation-state suppressing another nation that has been deprived of its legitimate right to establish its own state. It is also an ‘international problem’ granting that it has regional, international and global dimensions which implicate the hegemonic world system. Besides, Israel’s aversion to a peaceful posture vis-à-vis the outside world is a threat to international peace and security as defi…
“The World is Bigger than Five”
The World is Bigger than Five": Substance and Context T he world is bigger than five (in Turkish dnya beten byktr)" is now a well-known motto, which has been consistently used and popularized by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan since 2013, when he was prime minister. It could possibly be viewed as a follow-up to Turkey's overall critique of the United Nations (UN) system in the course of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) rule sinc…
A Critical View of the Scholarly Discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian Problem
The scholarly discourse about Israel has at least two defects. First, although it is a colonial-settler state that has occupied the entirety of the former British Mandate of Palestine, it is still by and large treated as a “normal” state in the literature; and secondly, even the progressive scholars – who are very critical of Israel for is subjugation of Palestinian rights and massive breaches of human rights – have mostly confined their critique…
Introduction
Today, the Zionist occupation of Palestine and the continued dislocation of Palestinians for nearly a hundred years through brute force – combined with the former’s discursive hegemony over its victims – remain as major obstacles to the construction of a peaceful and stable international political order in the Middle East. The so-called Palestinian problem remains the key to understand the failure of the Middle Eastern sub-system to produce susta…
A Critique of Western Modernity and the Narrative about Turkey as “Model State”
İlk sayısını Haziran 2011'de çıkaran İnsan & Toplum Dergisi, yılda iki kez yayımlanan, hem Türkçe hem de İngilizce yazılara yer veren hakemli bir dergidir. İnsan & Toplum, akademik yayın dünyasında görülen iki temel eksikliği duyumsayarak yola çıktı. Bunlardan biri, kendi disipliner sınırlarına hapsolmuş akademyanın insan ve toplumu birbirinden izole ederek ayrıştırarak çalışma yapmasının bir teamül haline gelmiş olmasıdır. İkincisi de, disiplinl…
The Ottoman ‘School’ of International Law as Featured in Textbooks
The Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d’histoire du droit international is an interdisciplinary journal on the history of international law with a broad outreach. It is placed among the top international law journals which are regularly consulted by all international lawyers with a general interest in the history of their field. It provides a forum for the emerging and expanding scholarship that takes a historical approach to ex…
An Inquiry into the “Effective” United Nations Security Council Resolutions Relating to the Middle East within the Past Decade
An Inquiry into the Turkish ‘School’ of International Law
This paper seeks to examine major Turkish textbooks of public international law, focusing particularly on a small number of core areas in this discipline: historical origins and basic features; formal sources; main subjects; the law of territory; international law and development. These textbooks show a strong inclination towards Eurocentrism and positivism due to their denial of the vigour of ‘soft law’, as manifested for instance in UN General …
Fifty years on
As is well known, the United Nations (UN) has been at the forefront of endeavours pertaining to the progressive development of international law for over 50 years. To realize its objectives, the UN has had to find ways of encouraging international co-operation designed to cope with certain economic, political and social problems that could not be resolved by individual states alone. These problems are varied, and are subject to an evolutionary le…
Dispensing with Tradition? Turkish Politics and International Society during the Özal Decade, 1983-93
L'A. examine le role du Premier ministre (1983-89), puis President de la Republique turque (1989-93), Turgut Ozal, dans l'evolution politique et culturelle de la Turquie. D'une part il met en evidence en quoi l'action politique de T. Ozal s'inscrit dans la continuite des projets politiques et de l'ideologie de ses predecesseurs ; d'autre part il tente de comprendre l'originalite de son action politique et la coherence d'orientations souvent consi…
Dispensing with Tradition? Turkish Politics and International Society during the Özal Decade, 1983-93
L'A. examine le role du Premier ministre (1983-89), puis President de la Republique turque (1989-93), Turgut Ozal, dans l'evolution politique et culturelle de la Turquie. D'une part il met en evidence en quoi l'action politique de T. Ozal s'inscrit dans la continuite des projets politiques et de l'ideologie de ses predecesseurs ; d'autre part il tente de comprendre l'originalite de son action politique et la coherence d'orientations souvent consi…
Fifty years on
As is well known, the United Nations (UN) has been at the forefront of endeavours pertaining to the progressive development of international law for over 50 years. To realize its objectives, the UN has had to find ways of encouraging international co-operation designed to cope with certain economic, political and social problems that could not be resolved by individual states alone. These problems are varied, and are subject to an evolutionary le…
The Ottoman ‘School’ of International Law as Featured in Textbooks
The Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d’histoire du droit international is an interdisciplinary journal on the history of international law with a broad outreach. It is placed among the top international law journals which are regularly consulted by all international lawyers with a general interest in the history of their field. It provides a forum for the emerging and expanding scholarship that takes a historical approach to ex…
An Inquiry into the Turkish ‘School’ of International Law
This paper seeks to examine major Turkish textbooks of public international law, focusing particularly on a small number of core areas in this discipline: historical origins and basic features; formal sources; main subjects; the law of territory; international law and development. These textbooks show a strong inclination towards Eurocentrism and positivism due to their denial of the vigour of ‘soft law’, as manifested for instance in UN General …
Dispensing with Tradition? Turkish Politics and International Society during the Özal Decade, 1983-93
L'A. examine le role du Premier ministre (1983-89), puis President de la Republique turque (1989-93), Turgut Ozal, dans l'evolution politique et culturelle de la Turquie. D'une part il met en evidence en quoi l'action politique de T. Ozal s'inscrit dans la continuite des projets politiques et de l'ideologie de ses predecesseurs ; d'autre part il tente de comprendre l'originalite de son action politique et la coherence d'orientations souvent consi…
Fifty years on
As is well known, the United Nations (UN) has been at the forefront of endeavours pertaining to the progressive development of international law for over 50 years. To realize its objectives, the UN has had to find ways of encouraging international co-operation designed to cope with certain economic, political and social problems that could not be resolved by individual states alone. These problems are varied, and are subject to an evolutionary le…
An Inquiry into the Turkish ‘School’ of International Law
This paper seeks to examine major Turkish textbooks of public international law, focusing particularly on a small number of core areas in this discipline: historical origins and basic features; formal sources; main subjects; the law of territory; international law and development. These textbooks show a strong inclination towards Eurocentrism and positivism due to their denial of the vigour of ‘soft law’, as manifested for instance in UN General …
An Inquiry into the “Effective” United Nations Security Council Resolutions Relating to the Middle East within the Past Decade
The Ottoman ‘School’ of International Law as Featured in Textbooks
The Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d’histoire du droit international is an interdisciplinary journal on the history of international law with a broad outreach. It is placed among the top international law journals which are regularly consulted by all international lawyers with a general interest in the history of their field. It provides a forum for the emerging and expanding scholarship that takes a historical approach to ex…
A Critique of Western Modernity and the Narrative about Turkey as “Model State”
İlk sayısını Haziran 2011'de çıkaran İnsan & Toplum Dergisi, yılda iki kez yayımlanan, hem Türkçe hem de İngilizce yazılara yer veren hakemli bir dergidir. İnsan & Toplum, akademik yayın dünyasında görülen iki temel eksikliği duyumsayarak yola çıktı. Bunlardan biri, kendi disipliner sınırlarına hapsolmuş akademyanın insan ve toplumu birbirinden izole ederek ayrıştırarak çalışma yapmasının bir teamül haline gelmiş olmasıdır. İkincisi de, disiplinl…
Introduction
Today, the Zionist occupation of Palestine and the continued dislocation of Palestinians for nearly a hundred years through brute force – combined with the former’s discursive hegemony over its victims – remain as major obstacles to the construction of a peaceful and stable international political order in the Middle East. The so-called Palestinian problem remains the key to understand the failure of the Middle Eastern sub-system to produce susta…
“The World is Bigger than Five”
The World is Bigger than Five": Substance and Context T he world is bigger than five (in Turkish dnya beten byktr)" is now a well-known motto, which has been consistently used and popularized by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan since 2013, when he was prime minister. It could possibly be viewed as a follow-up to Turkey's overall critique of the United Nations (UN) system in the course of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) rule sinc…
A Critical View of the Scholarly Discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian Problem
The scholarly discourse about Israel has at least two defects. First, although it is a colonial-settler state that has occupied the entirety of the former British Mandate of Palestine, it is still by and large treated as a “normal” state in the literature; and secondly, even the progressive scholars – who are very critical of Israel for is subjugation of Palestinian rights and massive breaches of human rights – have mostly confined their critique…
Rethinking the Palestinian Problem and the ‘Right Strategy’ for Palestinian Liberation
The Palestinian tragedy is not simply a matter of one nation-state suppressing another nation that has been deprived of its legitimate right to establish its own state. It is also an ‘international problem’ granting that it has regional, international and global dimensions which implicate the hegemonic world system. Besides, Israel’s aversion to a peaceful posture vis-à-vis the outside world is a threat to international peace and security as defi…
Uluslararası Hukuk Bağlamında Birleşmiş Milletler’in Batı ve Doğu Kudüs’ün İsrail Tarafından İşgaline Yönelik Tutumu
Bu makalede, uluslararası barış ve güvenliğin korunması hususunda kendisine aslî bir sorumluluk yüklenmiş olan Birleşmiş Milletler ’in (BM), Filistin topraklarının önce Siyonist terör grupları, sonra İsrail tarafından işgali karşısında almış olduğu tutum, hususiyetle Batı ve Doğu Kudüs’e odaklanılarak ele alınmaktadır. Burada ortaya konan bulgular, hem Soğuk Savaş boyunca hem de sonrasında Güvenlik Konseyi’nin ve Genel Kurul’un Siyonist devletin …
Turkey’s Voting Preferences in the UN General Assembly During the AK Party Era as a Counterchallenge to Its ‘New’ Foreign Policy
This article traces the Turkish voting preferences in the UN General Assembly during the AK Party era between 2002 and 2020. It seeks to understand as to whether there is a congruence between Turkey’s critical view of international society as epitomized by Tayyip Erdoğan’s motto, 'The World is Bigger Than Five', and the way Turkish representatives voted during the same period in the UN General Assembly on questions such as nuclear disarmament, se…
Israel’s Fateful March
This article delves into the legal discussions surrounding the crisis unleashed by the military operation launched on October 7, 2023, in Southern Israel by Palestinian forces of the resistance based in Gaza. Israel considered this a “terrorist attack,” asserted the right of self-defense, declared war on Gazans, and started the continuous and indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza. As a result, Gaza has become the new Dresden, in which thousands have…
Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Politics (7 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · History (5 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · International law (4 works)