CENK: A Journal of Defence, Security, and Strategy is a Türkiye-based journal that aims to be an interdisciplinary, multilingual, and global reference source on defense, security, and international strategy. Our journal is a publishing platform that focuses on scientific rigor with its double blind review system and facilitates access to information with its open access principle.
CENK will feature original, seminal, and guiding academic studies in fields such as defense industry policies, security studies, international relations, and strategy. CENK aims to make Türkiye's strategic wisdom visible on the regional and global stage through research that contributes to political decision-making processes and analyzes the ancient and the contemporary. In addition to contributing to strategy studies in Türkiye, CENK also aims to evaluate the theoretical and practical debates in the field on a global scale and to discuss the Türkiye case in comparison with different geopolitical contexts.
CENK is committed to making academic contributions to Türkiye's foreign policy, defense industry, and security architecture. With this mission, our publications will be a primary resource for academics, policymakers, defense industry representatives, researchers, students, and others interested in the field. In addition, we aim to deepen Türkiye's academic accumulation in the field of defense industry and fill the intellectual gap in this field with an interdisciplinary approach in our journal, which will also undertake the effort to expand the potential and opportunities of qualified publishing by blending universal knowledge with a national perspective.
CENK focuses on defense policies, security studies, strategic thinking, military transformations, cyber security, hybrid threats, regional crises, intelligence studies, and military-diplomatic relations. In addition to original articles based on both qualitative and quantitative research methods, the journal will also include theoretical analyses and book reviews. CENK will be published in Turkish and English in two issues per year, on June 30 and December 30. The journal welcomes contributions from experts, academia, and researchers in the defense industry.
CENK Journal has opened its call for papers for Issue 4, scheduled for publication on 30 December 2026. We invite authors to submit original scholarly manuscripts within the journal's scope before the submission deadline.
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The contemporary international landscape clearly demonstrates that international politics, security studies, and religion can no longer be examined as isolated fields of inquiry. The evolving security strategies of states, rapid technological transformations, regional power competition, and the changing role of religious movements in the modern world have become interconnected phenomena that demand comprehensive and interdisciplinary analysis. The articles included in this issue reflect this perspective by examining these complex dynamics from diverse yet complementary analytical viewpoints. Although the articles presented in this issue address distinct research questions, they converge around a common theme: the growing interdependence of security, religion, technology, intelligence, and international politics. As contemporary global challenges become increasingly multidimensional, understanding these complex phenomena requires analytical frameworks that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries.
CENK Journal has opened its call for papers for Issue 4, scheduled for publication on 30 December 2026. We invite authors to submit original scholarly manuscripts within the journal's scope before the submission deadline.
