Gencer Özcan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4121245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gencer Özcan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gencer |
| FAMILY NAME | Özcan |
| SIGNATURE | ÖZCAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Istanbul Bilgi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8334-4671 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs comes of age
When Joseph left out in the well
The study highlights the significant factors that shaped Turkey’s policy towards Egypt during the Arab Uprisings. In the light of seismic changes in Tunisia and Libya, the pace of events in Cairo transformed expectations among the AKP leadership into conviction that the Arab street is strong enough to lead the change in the country. However, the AKP administration failed to forsee the reactions to the shift in power in Cairo. The military coup ab…
Do New Democracies Support Democracy? Turkey’s Dilemmas
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), which prides itself on serving as a regional model of democratic governance, often pays lip service to human rights and democratic principles in its foreign policy. Yet when dealing with politically less than attractive regional partners, the AKP will frequently maintain public silence rather than risk harm to Turkish interests, particularly economic ones. Will the more robust human-rights poli…
Facing its Waterloo in diplomacy
The article deals with the decline in the military's influence on the foreign and security policy making process in Turkey. Turkey's harmonization process with the EU that gained momentum in the early 2000s and the US invasion of Iraq in April of 2003 seem to have played a key role in this transformation. While the EU reforms provided for the gradual elimination of legal prerogatives of the military, the increasing US influence in Iraq limited th…
Facing its Waterloo in diplomacy
The article deals with the decline in the military's influence on the foreign and security policy making process in Turkey. Turkey's harmonization process with the EU that gained momentum in the early 2000s and the US invasion of Iraq in April of 2003 seem to have played a key role in this transformation. While the EU reforms provided for the gradual elimination of legal prerogatives of the military, the increasing US influence in Iraq limited th…
Do New Democracies Support Democracy? Turkey’s Dilemmas
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), which prides itself on serving as a regional model of democratic governance, often pays lip service to human rights and democratic principles in its foreign policy. Yet when dealing with politically less than attractive regional partners, the AKP will frequently maintain public silence rather than risk harm to Turkish interests, particularly economic ones. Will the more robust human-rights poli…
Facing its Waterloo in diplomacy
The article deals with the decline in the military's influence on the foreign and security policy making process in Turkey. Turkey's harmonization process with the EU that gained momentum in the early 2000s and the US invasion of Iraq in April of 2003 seem to have played a key role in this transformation. While the EU reforms provided for the gradual elimination of legal prerogatives of the military, the increasing US influence in Iraq limited th…
Do New Democracies Support Democracy? Turkey’s Dilemmas
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), which prides itself on serving as a regional model of democratic governance, often pays lip service to human rights and democratic principles in its foreign policy. Yet when dealing with politically less than attractive regional partners, the AKP will frequently maintain public silence rather than risk harm to Turkish interests, particularly economic ones. Will the more robust human-rights poli…
When Joseph left out in the well
The study highlights the significant factors that shaped Turkey’s policy towards Egypt during the Arab Uprisings. In the light of seismic changes in Tunisia and Libya, the pace of events in Cairo transformed expectations among the AKP leadership into conviction that the Arab street is strong enough to lead the change in the country. However, the AKP administration failed to forsee the reactions to the shift in power in Cairo. The military coup ab…
Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs comes of age
Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Foreign policy (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works)