ABD-Türkiye ilişkilerinde, hem liderler hem kamuoyu düzeyinde karşılıklı algılar önemli rol oynamaktadır. Devletlerarası ilişkilerin sağlamlığına rağmen Türkiye kamuoyu ABD’nin Türkiye ve Orta Doğu’daki varlığına her zaman şüphe ile yaklaşmıştır. Diğer yandan, ABD kamuoyunun Türkiye ile ilgili bilgisi ya oldukça kısıtlıdır, ya da önemli nüanslardan yoksundur. Türkiye ile ABD toplumları arasında karşılıklı anlayışı engelleyen bilgi ve […]

Suriye’deki iç savaş ve Orta Doğu’nun çeşitli ülkelerinde yaşanan geçiş dönemi dikkatleri Irak’tan uzaklaştırdı. Ancak bu esnada Irak da siyasi ve ekonomik açıdan kritik günlerden geçmekteydi. Irak’ın bölgesel güç olabilme potansiyeli, iç politikasındaki belirsizlikler, ayrışmalar ve ülkeyi nasıl bir geleceğin beklediğine dair tartışmalar sonucunda gölgede kaldı. Irak, dış politikasında, iç dinamiklerini ve nüfus çeşitliliğini nasıl […]

[doc id=25886]In the summer of 2012, the Hollings Center awarded a small grant to Mary Marshall Clark of the Columbia University Center for Oral History (CCOH) and Lucine Taminian of the American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII). The grant intended to facilitate the development of guidelines for the ethics and methodologies of collecting oral […]

Perceptions have weighed heavily on U.S.-Turkey relations and how American and Turkish leaders and the general public see one another. Despite an often robust bilateral relationship with the US, Turkish public opinion has always been skeptical of U.S. involvement in Turkey and the Middle East. On the other hand, U.S. public opinion on Turkey is usually uninformed […]

Central Asia is the region that isn’t exactly a region. The republics trade globally, but relatively little with one another. Their border and customs policies remain highly dysfunctional despite well‐meaning international aid programs. And much of the new infrastructure in the region has developed to serve national territory, rather than to better connect states to one another. Central […]

The Hollings Center for International Dialogue cohosted an event entitled “Quo Vadis Egypt?” with the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) on September 19, 2013. Following the event, Hollings Center Executive Director Michael Carroll spoke with two of the speakers about recent events in Egypt and their projections for the future. Interviewees include Omar […]

J. Edward Conway, a Hollings Center small grant recipient, recently published findings from his small grant project in the Eurasian Dialogue. His article, “Encouraging dialogue on the misunderstood and understudied,” explores themes from a Hollings Center conference, “Competing Mediation in the Middle East and Central Asia,” and his follow-on event. [gview file=”http://eurasiandialogue.org/downloads/Perspectives_on_Central_Asia_nr2.pdf” save=”1″]

The Hollings Center Small Grants Program partnered with KIMEP University in Almaty to sponsor a roundtable entitled, “Kazakh Perspectives on Chinese Investment: A Roundtable Discussion.” The results of that event, held in February 2013, were published in a report by KIMEP University. [gview file=”http://www.hollingscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Hollings-KIMEP-Final-report-ENG.pdf” save=”1″]

June 17, 2013 Kadir Has University, Istanbul By Aslı Mutlu, Program Coordinator Please click here for a printer friendly PDF version of this page. The Hollings Center for International Dialogue and The Center for International and European Studies (CIES) co-organized a panel discussion on the “Iranian Election Results of 14 June and their Wider Implications” as part of […]

Interview by George Gavrilis Archaeology and the preservation of Afghanistan’s heritage is a subject that is generally absent from popular knowledge in the United States, even after more than a decade of deep U.S. involvement in the country. What knowledge exists in the public sphere tends to be rooted in the memory of the destruction of […]