International Security and Terrorism analyses contemporary issues in international orders. This book assesses the terrorist attacks which were organised in African, Asian, European and Middle Eastern countries in detail. Therefore, it provides a comprehensive understanding for academics, practitioners, researchers, students and readers who are interested in international security and terrorism. It utilises data about casualties, attack types and countries that exposed terrorism. The book critically examines terrorism, traditional counter-terrorism tactics, securitisation and the new terrorism. It focuses on religiously-motivated terrorist groups, e.g. al-Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram and al-Shabaab.

Aytaç Kadıoğlu is an assistant professor of politics and international relations at the Middle East Institute, Sakarya University. Kadıoğlu received his BA at Istanbul University, MA in International Relations at the University of Leicester and Ph.D. in International Relations at the University of Nottingham. His expertise includes security studies, conflict resolution, international terrorism and counter-terrorism studies.

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.

Bu kitap, parlamentolarda diasporaların temsilinin karşılaştırmalı olarak ele alındığı önemli bir çalışma olarak ciddi bir boşluk dolduracaktır. Türkiye’nin yurt dışında yaşayan seçmenlere oy kullanma hakkını yaygın olarak kullandırmaya başladığı  2014 yılından beri giderek artan katılımla beraber parlamento temsil hakkının da tartışılmaya açıldığı dönemde gelecek için ışık tutacak bir çalışma olacaktır.

Mehmet KÖSE

Yurtdışı Türkler ve Akraba Topluluklar Başkanlığı’nın (YTB) eski Başkanı

Sağlıklı bir diaspora politikası olmayan devletler genelde sağlıklı bir göçmen politikası da üretemezler. Göç olgusunun her geçen gün arttığı bir dönemde diasporanın temsili meselesi Türkiye için kilit konulardan birisidir. Bu kitap karşılaştırmalı bir açıdan Türkiye için örnekler sunmakta ve diasporanın mecliste temsilinin sistemsel, hukuksal ve siyasi olarak nasıl mümkün olabileceğine dair kapsamlı bir yaklaşım geliştirmektedir. Türkiye’de alanında ilklerden olan bu kitabı siyaset bilimi ve uluslararası ilişkilerle hem teorik hem de pratik olarak ilgilenenlere özellikle tavsiye ederim.

Doç. Dr. Mehmet ÖZKAN

Center for Global Policy, Washington DC, ABD