Burak Kadercan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4153361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Burak Kadercan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Burak |
| FAMILY NAME | Kadercan |
| SIGNATURE | KADERCAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Naval War College |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-5380-9950 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Explaining the territorial trap
Territory and territoriality lie at the heart of both world politics and International Relations (IR) theory. In terms of IR theory’s geographical assumptions, one of the most influential studies to date has been political geographer John Agnew’s 1994 article on the ‘the territorial trap’ (TTT). While Agnew’s original insights and subsequent research has reached canonical status in political geography, mainstream IR scholarship has yet to fully e…
Exploring the “Military Time
What is the relationship between civil–military relations and the emergence as well as diffusion of military innovations? More precisely, how do civil–military relations affect a state's capacity for adopting military innovations? While both topics, military innovations and civil–military relations, have individually attracted considerable scholarly attention, very few studies deal with them in tandem. This study builds on the existing research o…
Territorial logic of the Islamic State
While scholars and experts unanimously identify the group also known as Islamic State (ISIS) as a ‘territorial’ organization, there is little systematic analysis in International Relations (IR) research on the subject. This paper deals with two specific questions: How can we conceptualize ISIS’ territoriality, that is, the ways in which the group envisions the relationship between space and society; and How has its particular territoriality affec…
Territorial design and grand strategy in the Ottoman Empire
Territorial design and grand strategy in the Ottoman Empire. Territory, Politics, Governance. How could the Ottoman Empire preserve intrastate peace and stability from its emergence in the 14th century until the 19th in regions – especially the Balkans and the Middle East – that later became hotbeds for ethnic, religious, and sectarian conflict while at the same time fighting numerous interstate wars? This paper offers a novel explanation for thi…
Territorial designs and international politics
Territorial designs and international politics: the diverging constitution of space and boundaries. Territory, Politics, Governance. The debate about the role and direction of territory and territoriality – especially with respect to the politically and socially constructed nature of territory – has been evident within political geography and political science, as well as in other disciplines, for some time. Interdisciplinary interaction over the…
Nationalism and war for territory
How did the rise of nationalism affect patterns of interstate wars? The conventional wisdom in mainstream security studies tends to treat the rise of nationalism as a ‘force amplifier’ that allowed states to wage war on an unprecedented scale, leading to deadlier—and, consequently, less frequent—wars. By building on emerging interdisciplinary research on territory and territoriality, this essay suggests that there was a second mechanism—complemen…
The Turkish Military as a Political Actor
During the summer of 2013, as hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets to criticize Mohammed Morsi's Freedom and Justice Party for its increasingly autocratic and “Islamic” posture, the Egyptian military under General Sisi toppled the government and suspended the constitution. By contrast, what did not happen in Turkey when hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets in June 2013 to criticize then Prime Minister Recep T…
Triangulating territory
The relationship between the political and socially constructed nature of territory (or, territories’ ‘constitutive properties’) and international politics has recently attracted substantial attention from scholars hailing from political science as well as political geography and critical international relations. The conversations across these scholarly traditions, however, leave a lot to be desired. The question then becomes, how can we, if at a…
Busting Myths – Five books on The Cuban Missile Crisis in Its Fiftieth Anniversary
The study of international politics has evolved in reference to the great power wars, with every major conflict marked as a turning point in global history. Consequently, the crises that trigger th
Strong Armies, Slow Adaptation
Why are some states more willing to adopt military innovations than others? Why, for example, were the great powers of Europe able to successfully reform their military practices to better adapt to and participate in the so-called military revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries while their most important extra-European competitor, the Ottoman Empire, failed to do so? This puzzle is best explained by two factors: civil-military rela…
Making sense of survival
The assumption that ‘states' primary goal is survival’ lies at the heart of the neorealist paradigm. A careful examination of the assumption, however, reveals that neorealists draw upon a number of distinct interpretations of the ‘survival assumption’ that are then treated as if they are the same, pointing towards conceptual problems that surround the treatment of state preferences. This article offers a specification that focuses on two question…
Military Competition and the Emergence of Nationalism: Putting the Logic of Political Survival into Historical Context
This essay aims to make a contribution to the conversation between IR and nationalism literatures by considering a particular question: What is the relationship between interstate military competition and the emergence of nationalism as a potent force in world politics? The conventional wisdom among international security scholars, especially neorealists, holds that nationalism can be more or less treated like a “technology” that allowed states t…
Triangulating territory
The relationship between the political and socially constructed nature of territory (or, territories’ ‘constitutive properties’) and international politics has recently attracted substantial attention from scholars hailing from political science as well as political geography and critical international relations. The conversations across these scholarly traditions, however, leave a lot to be desired. The question then becomes, how can we, if at a…
Territorial designs and international politics
Territorial designs and international politics: the diverging constitution of space and boundaries. Territory, Politics, Governance. The debate about the role and direction of territory and territoriality – especially with respect to the politically and socially constructed nature of territory – has been evident within political geography and political science, as well as in other disciplines, for some time. Interdisciplinary interaction over the…
Strong Armies, Slow Adaptation
Why are some states more willing to adopt military innovations than others? Why, for example, were the great powers of Europe able to successfully reform their military practices to better adapt to and participate in the so-called military revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries while their most important extra-European competitor, the Ottoman Empire, failed to do so? This puzzle is best explained by two factors: civil-military rela…
Territorial design and grand strategy in the Ottoman Empire
Territorial design and grand strategy in the Ottoman Empire. Territory, Politics, Governance. How could the Ottoman Empire preserve intrastate peace and stability from its emergence in the 14th century until the 19th in regions – especially the Balkans and the Middle East – that later became hotbeds for ethnic, religious, and sectarian conflict while at the same time fighting numerous interstate wars? This paper offers a novel explanation for thi…
Nationalism and war for territory
How did the rise of nationalism affect patterns of interstate wars? The conventional wisdom in mainstream security studies tends to treat the rise of nationalism as a ‘force amplifier’ that allowed states to wage war on an unprecedented scale, leading to deadlier—and, consequently, less frequent—wars. By building on emerging interdisciplinary research on territory and territoriality, this essay suggests that there was a second mechanism—complemen…
Exploring the “Military Time
What is the relationship between civil–military relations and the emergence as well as diffusion of military innovations? More precisely, how do civil–military relations affect a state's capacity for adopting military innovations? While both topics, military innovations and civil–military relations, have individually attracted considerable scholarly attention, very few studies deal with them in tandem. This study builds on the existing research o…
Territorial logic of the Islamic State
While scholars and experts unanimously identify the group also known as Islamic State (ISIS) as a ‘territorial’ organization, there is little systematic analysis in International Relations (IR) research on the subject. This paper deals with two specific questions: How can we conceptualize ISIS’ territoriality, that is, the ways in which the group envisions the relationship between space and society; and How has its particular territoriality affec…
Making sense of survival
The assumption that ‘states' primary goal is survival’ lies at the heart of the neorealist paradigm. A careful examination of the assumption, however, reveals that neorealists draw upon a number of distinct interpretations of the ‘survival assumption’ that are then treated as if they are the same, pointing towards conceptual problems that surround the treatment of state preferences. This article offers a specification that focuses on two question…
Military Competition and the Emergence of Nationalism: Putting the Logic of Political Survival into Historical Context
This essay aims to make a contribution to the conversation between IR and nationalism literatures by considering a particular question: What is the relationship between interstate military competition and the emergence of nationalism as a potent force in world politics? The conventional wisdom among international security scholars, especially neorealists, holds that nationalism can be more or less treated like a “technology” that allowed states t…
Making sense of survival
The assumption that ‘states' primary goal is survival’ lies at the heart of the neorealist paradigm. A careful examination of the assumption, however, reveals that neorealists draw upon a number of distinct interpretations of the ‘survival assumption’ that are then treated as if they are the same, pointing towards conceptual problems that surround the treatment of state preferences. This article offers a specification that focuses on two question…
Busting Myths – Five books on The Cuban Missile Crisis in Its Fiftieth Anniversary
The study of international politics has evolved in reference to the great power wars, with every major conflict marked as a turning point in global history. Consequently, the crises that trigger th
Strong Armies, Slow Adaptation
Why are some states more willing to adopt military innovations than others? Why, for example, were the great powers of Europe able to successfully reform their military practices to better adapt to and participate in the so-called military revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries while their most important extra-European competitor, the Ottoman Empire, failed to do so? This puzzle is best explained by two factors: civil-military rela…
Triangulating territory
The relationship between the political and socially constructed nature of territory (or, territories’ ‘constitutive properties’) and international politics has recently attracted substantial attention from scholars hailing from political science as well as political geography and critical international relations. The conversations across these scholarly traditions, however, leave a lot to be desired. The question then becomes, how can we, if at a…
The Turkish Military as a Political Actor
During the summer of 2013, as hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets to criticize Mohammed Morsi's Freedom and Justice Party for its increasingly autocratic and “Islamic” posture, the Egyptian military under General Sisi toppled the government and suspended the constitution. By contrast, what did not happen in Turkey when hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets in June 2013 to criticize then Prime Minister Recep T…
Territorial design and grand strategy in the Ottoman Empire
Territorial design and grand strategy in the Ottoman Empire. Territory, Politics, Governance. How could the Ottoman Empire preserve intrastate peace and stability from its emergence in the 14th century until the 19th in regions – especially the Balkans and the Middle East – that later became hotbeds for ethnic, religious, and sectarian conflict while at the same time fighting numerous interstate wars? This paper offers a novel explanation for thi…
Territorial designs and international politics
Territorial designs and international politics: the diverging constitution of space and boundaries. Territory, Politics, Governance. The debate about the role and direction of territory and territoriality – especially with respect to the politically and socially constructed nature of territory – has been evident within political geography and political science, as well as in other disciplines, for some time. Interdisciplinary interaction over the…
Nationalism and war for territory
How did the rise of nationalism affect patterns of interstate wars? The conventional wisdom in mainstream security studies tends to treat the rise of nationalism as a ‘force amplifier’ that allowed states to wage war on an unprecedented scale, leading to deadlier—and, consequently, less frequent—wars. By building on emerging interdisciplinary research on territory and territoriality, this essay suggests that there was a second mechanism—complemen…
Territorial logic of the Islamic State
While scholars and experts unanimously identify the group also known as Islamic State (ISIS) as a ‘territorial’ organization, there is little systematic analysis in International Relations (IR) research on the subject. This paper deals with two specific questions: How can we conceptualize ISIS’ territoriality, that is, the ways in which the group envisions the relationship between space and society; and How has its particular territoriality affec…
Exploring the “Military Time
What is the relationship between civil–military relations and the emergence as well as diffusion of military innovations? More precisely, how do civil–military relations affect a state's capacity for adopting military innovations? While both topics, military innovations and civil–military relations, have individually attracted considerable scholarly attention, very few studies deal with them in tandem. This study builds on the existing research o…
Explaining the territorial trap
Territory and territoriality lie at the heart of both world politics and International Relations (IR) theory. In terms of IR theory’s geographical assumptions, one of the most influential studies to date has been political geographer John Agnew’s 1994 article on the ‘the territorial trap’ (TTT). While Agnew’s original insights and subsequent research has reached canonical status in political geography, mainstream IR scholarship has yet to fully e…
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