Tarihten güncele Türkiye’nin Ortadoğu politikaları süreklilik ve değişim arz etmektedir. Cumhuriyet dönemi ve ardı sıra gelen uzun yıllar boyunca Türkiye’nin mesafeli bir politika güttüğü Ortadoğu, AK Parti iktidarları döneminde ihmal edilen bir coğrafya olarak görülürken bölge ülkeleriyle olan aktif ilişkiler önem kazanır. Arap Baharı sonrası bölge ülkelerinin dönüşmekte olan siyasi/sosyal yapısından etkilenen ve Ortadoğu’da daha kaotik bir duruma gelen Suriye’nin durumu sınır faktörü de göz önüne alındığında, birincil olarak Türkiye’ye tesir etmektedir.

AK Parti iktidarları döneminde(kuruluşundan üçüncü döneminin sonuna kadar)Türkiye’nin Suriye’yle işbirliğine dayalı kurduğu ilişkiler, yerini ihtilaflara bırakmıştır. AK Parti iktidarları döneminde Türkiye’nin “komşularla sıfır sorun politikası”nın başarılı bir şekilde uygulandığı Suriye’yle olan ilişkiler,Arap Baharı sonrası süreçte sarsıntıya uğramış,Türkiye Suriye sorununun bir parçası olmaya başlamıştır. Bu süreçte, Türkiye’nin Suriye rejimine yönelik politikası, gitgide sertleşerek daha “realist” bir veçheye bürünmüştür.

Economic cybercrime is one of the unwelcomed consequences of unprecedented intrusion of the Internet in our daily lives. Academic interest in understanding the causes and adverse impacts of cybercrime is growing. Opportunity perspective, which perceives individuals’ daily routines and lifestyles as the primary facilitator of victimization, has been widely applied as a theoretical and conceptual framework in cybercrime victimization research. However, this approach put the responsibility of the victimization on victims explicitly, which hampers the application of crime prevention and reduction efforts. This book presents the Contextual Vulnerabilities approach based on the significant findings of a doctoral study conducted at Durham University in the United Kingdom. Contextual vulnerabilities approach posits that cybercrime victimization is the outcome of the confluence of contextual factors that are mostly beyond victims’ control. This approach presumes that controlling individual (micro-level), macro-level and socio-cultural vulnerabilities may prevent cybercrime victimization. Though the preliminary goal of this book is to provide a new theoretical perspective to scholars researching victimization in cyberspace, I hope the wider audience would find it informative.

Intense competition, fast changing technology, increased and diverse customer demand, and fast and reliable services and goods delivery expectations have reduced the profit margins for products. To be able to obtain a sustainable economic success, companies search for ways to offer the existing products via innovative ways. Revenue management is a tool that helps firms in this purpose. On the other hand, to match and even exceed customer anticipations, firms need to understand customer preferences and offer products accordingly. Customers can now reach wide range of competitor products due to online services. Hence it became much more important to apprehend and integrate customer choices into decision support tools. At this point, choice models are used to mathematically understand the customer choice preferences among a set of presented alternatives. This book combines revenue management and choice models to present a methodology to understand customer choices and integrate these to revenue management methods to be able to offer the best set of products to the customers. Also real life applications for hotels have been presented for different methods that are discussed and also proposed in this book with respective algorithms. When combined with decision support tools, concepts presented in this book offers a significant revenue increase for companies.