Cappadocia Journal of Area Studies

The June 2025 issue of our journal brings together our valued readers with five different articles. This issue contains a total of five research articles.

The first research article, written by Ramez Shuja, addresses the issue of women's rights in Afghanistan after the US. The article, which investigates the effects of the Taliban administration's return to gender equality, also sheds light on a current issue with its analysis based on the years 2021-2025.

The author of the study titled Russian Energy Policy in the Putin Period: Reflections on Disagreement and Conflict Processes is Seda Sevinç Cilasun. In this research article, produced from the doctoral thesis study put forward by our author at the Department of Eurasian Studies at Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University, firstly the energy profile that determines Russia's current energy actor is outlined. Then, the policies and strategies that were effective in the process of making energy one of the basic components of foreign policy in Russia under Putin's administration are discussed.

The third research article, written by Emre Altınışık, deals with the economic analysis of the opium trade in Asia between 1830-1918, while the fourth research article belongs to Onur Çelik and reveals the theoretical foundations on the classification of political regimes. Our author, who deals with totalitarian, authoritarian and democratic regimes, sheds light on us, our valued readers, by also addressing the theoretical framework with its current reflections.

The last research article, written by Can Ulusoy, presents a comparative analysis of the New Life Movement, an ideological quest in Nationalist China, with Kemalism, and makes an important contribution to both the literature on Chinese political history and the global effects of Kemalism. Our author, who presents an original and up-to-date study in terms of examining the interaction between Chiang Kai-shek’s “New Life Movement” and Kemalism in 1930s–1940s China in this detail for the first time, examines both the ideological debates within the Chinese Nationalist Party and the diplomatic contacts made during his visits to Turkiye, and discusses the modernization projects of the two single-party regimes in a comparative manner.

We would like to thank all the authors who have contributed to this issue of our journal by sending their works, and all the referees who have worked hard in the evaluation process of these works; we hope that the ongoing interest in our journal from the national and international academic community will continue.