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- Spring 2025 / Volume 27, Number 2
Türkiye in a Technopolar World: An Emerging Digital World
Editor's Note
Editor's Note | Spring 2025
Emerging technologies are also transforming the political dimensions of state power and sovereignty. Technologies such as semiconductors, 5G infrastructure, cloud computing, and big data are no longer neutral tools of efficiency, they have become strategic assets wielded by states and corporations alike as instruments of foreign policy, economic leverage, and geopolitical coercion.
Commentaries

Geopolitical Implications of Israel’s June 13 Attacks against Iran: Changing Regional Power Balances
This commentary analyses Israel’s simultaneous air, cyber, and covert strike against Iran on June...
The Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF) 2025 convened during a time of global uncertainty, marked by...
China has developed a distinct technological innovation system through its innovation-driven...
Data are a crucial aspect of deep learning models and the groundwork for contemporary artificial...
This paper examines the application of technologies in the context of intercultural communication...
The wide range of digital technologies, coupled with their strategic indispensability, not only...
This commentary outlines Türkiye’s significant progress in advancing its research, development,...
This commentary examines Türkiye’s National Technology Move as a timely and determined response...
Articles
Although the nature of war remains the same, its characteristics have been dynamic throughout...
This paper examines algorithmic biases and ideological orientations in AI models through a...
The article examines AI regulation in BRICS countries through a typology of AI regulatory...
This research investigates the possibilities for constructing a holistic, accountable, and...
The rapid advancement of AI technologies offers transformative opportunities alongside...
The Eastern Mediterranean is one of the important points in the international arena where...
In 2021, Ian Bremmer coined the term technopolarity, signaling a world where big tech companies,...
The recent restructuring of global supply chains, along with growing concerns about food...
In an increasingly technopolar world, artificial intelligence (AI) is pivotal for national...
In an era where cybersecurity has become a defining element of global power competition and...
This article examines Türkiye’s strategic transformation into an emerging digital power within...
Although there is widespread convergence about the importance of artificial intelligence (AI),...
Review Article
Reshaping National Security and the Future of Warfare in the Age of Competitive Artificial Intelligence
National security in the age of competitive AI is evolving into a structure that transcends conventional threat paradigms, encompassing uncertainty, interdependence, and complex multi-actor dynamics. While the integration of AI into military strategy appears inevitable, ignoring its strategic and ethical consequences risks triggering irreversible security crises. One of the most urgent questions in the coming era of international relations, therefore, is how to preserve peace, security, and stability in a world increasingly defined by competitive artificial intelligence.
Book Reviews
Interestingly, Mapping the Fault Lines in Turkey-U.S. Relations goes beyond its direct focus and...
Arming the Sultan: German Arms Trade and Personal Diplomacy in the Ottoman Empire before World War I
The book argues that arms trade agreements in the last century of the Ottoman Empire were...
The book challenges the dominant mindset that historical colonialism is long gone, instead...
Once based on the bilateral symmetry of the Cold War, the logic of deterrence now faces layered...
The book argues that artificial intelligence (AI) is not only redefining the balance of power in...





























































































