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Article The Global Rivalry over Strategic Connectivity and the Emerging World Order: A View from Türkiye(2024) Eldem, TubaThe 21st century has witnessed the emergence of strategic connectivity as a pivotal domain in global politics, where infrastructure initiatives embody broader geopolitical ambitions. Central to this paradigm shift is China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—an extensive program encompassing a network of transportation routes, energy pipelines, digital infrastructures, and socio-economic engagements. This ambitious project, aiming to create a multifaceted matrix of global interconnectivity across continents and domains, has catalyzed an array of competitive and complementary initiatives from international actors, giving rise to a new era of “competitive connectivity,”. This paper examines the concept of strategic connectivity, showing how it qualitatively differs from earlier forms of global interdependence. Through a comparative analysis of major connectivity strategies—such as China’s BRI, the EU’s Global Gateway, and the G-7’s Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment—the study explores their objectives, scope, and strategic priorities. In doing so, it identifies key areas of convergence, such as the emphasis on infrastructure development and digital connectivity, while highlighting divergences, particularly in governance models and geopolitical objectives. The paper contributes to ongoing discussions about the future of global power dynamics, highlighting a shift from traditional geopolitical competition to a new form of geostrategic rivalry centered around connectivity, where great and aspiring powers use their networks to influence the movement of goods, capital, energy, ideas, and people to their advantage.Article Citation - WoS: 1International Cybersecurity Norms and Responsible Cyber Sovereignty(Istanbul Univ, Fac Law, 2021) Eldem, TubaInitially envisioned as a free and open communication space between people, free from state regulation and intervention, cyberspace has become a fundamental subject of national and global politics over the last decade. Allegedly state-sponsored cyber operations against Estonia in 2007, Georgia in 2008 and Iran in 2010 played an important role in turning cybersecurity into a national and international security issue. Although the development of cyber diplomacy and international cybersecurity law were left behind the militarization of cyberspace, nevertheless, there have been many international initiatives to adopt international cybersecurity norms in the past decade. Within the framework of the life cycle model of the norms developed by Martha Finnemore and Kathryn Sikkink (1998), this article aims to shed light on the emergence of international cybersecurity norms by focusing on the negotiations held at the First Committee of the United Nations for more than twenty years. The article argues that those negotiations held under the First Committee dealing with disarmament and international security issues indicate the first stage of the formation of international rules related to cyberspace, and the negotiations to be completed under the UN Open-Ended Working Group in 2021 is critical for the transition of international cybersecurity norms from the first to the second stage.