tarafından desteklenen, "27-M-16" numaralı " Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi'nde Öğrenim Gören Uluslararası Öğrencilerin Kente ve Üniversiteye Uyumu: Tehditler ve Fırsatlar" başlıklı projenin gözden geçirilmiş, güncellenmiş ve genişletilmiş halidir ve adı geçen projeden türetilmiştir. *This article has been reviewed, updated and expanded with the project titled "Adaptation of Foreign Students to the City

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Beyond his low popularity and lack of experience in governance, Donald Trump is already one of the most “out of type” presidents of the American history. Despite the fact that he just spent almost one and a half year on the presidency, his domestic and foreign policy approaches dominate the agenda of international public opinion. In particular, his discourses on American foreign policy’s approach towards the international system offer great aggression. In other words, on the basis of discursive, Trump’s foreign policy approach accords with the classic approach of American foreign policy which is mostly based on offensive realism. On the other hand, in the practice, Trump faces various internal and external difficulties to realize his foreign policy approach. Besides these difficulties, Trump’s practical foreign policy implementations dramatically decrease the prestigious of the States and harm the historical “American Exceptionalism” image. This paper aims to produce a comparative approach to Trump’s foreign policy between theory and in practice. According to the findings of this study, Trump considers the American foreign policy as an instrument to consolidate his domestic power and popularity. On the other hand, use of the American foreign policy as a “political card” does not appear as a rational option to maximize the power capacity of the United States.

In the modern history, Arab Spring was one of the most important merciless challenge to military dictatorships all around the Middle East. All the dictators lost their rotten thrones sooner or later except Bashar el-Assad. There are many political or strategic explanations regarding how Assad still partly protects his power and still represents Syria in the position of presidency. On the other hand, sometimes "perfectly" designed international politics fall behind while interpreting the "destined" side of international relations. In other words, sometimes "expect the unexpected" which is the famous formula of Murphy Laws determine the critical developments in international relations. This paper aims to investigate the Assad's survival based on the Murphy Laws which is considered as one of the natural extension of post-positivist theory in international relations. In order to support the arguments of this paper, other historical developments are also adapted to the study.

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