Year End Notes - 2008
Towards a new conjuncture in the international scene        7
Reşat Arım

2008: Turkey and EU: Towards a "Make or Break" Year     9
Seyfi Taşhan

Turkey's Southern and Eastern Neighborhood                               15
Oktay Aksoy

The International System at crossroads?.............................. 19
Reşat Arım

Turkey-European Union Relations in the Context of Identity
Debate.............................................................................. 25
Gokhan Akşemsettinoğlu

Non-state actors and human rights: An ongoing debate.......... 45
Nezir Akyeşilmen

The Turkish Policy of Opening up to Africa............................ 67
Kenan Tepedelen.................................................................. 67

Regional   Cooperation   -   Indispensable   Tool    For   Euro-
Atlantic Integration Of Southeast Europe:............................ 75
Nedzad Hadzimusic

Turkish-Russian Roundtable On a Global Framework October
10th and 11th, 2008........................................................... 83

Turkey's Policy towards Iraq in the post-Saddam era............. 85

Year End Issue - 2008
Tank Oğuzlu

Russia and Iranian Nuclear program..................................... 93
Vladimir Sotnikov

Palestine - Israel................................................................ 101
Irina Zvyagelskaya

Turkish-Russian cooperation in Eurasia.................................. 103
Oktay Aksoy

Energy Issues.................................................................... 105
Necdet Pamir

Turkish-Russian    energy    cooperation:    are    there    many
prospects?......................................................................... 111
Natalia Ulchenco

Points  of  Convergence  and   Divergence  in  Turkish     and
Russian Foreign Policies....................................................... 117
Ali Karaosmanoglu

Global Political Challenges:................................................... 121
Concurrence   and   Divergences   in   Russian   and   Turkish
Foreign Policy Strategies..................................................... 121
Vyacheslav I. Shlykov

Diverging point in foreign policies of Turkey and Russia:
Cyprus............................................................................... 133
Reşat Arım