by Fatih Yilmaz | Jun 22, 2022 | Commentary, Social Inclusion & Integration
European and OECD countries remain among the main destination points for refugees from all around the world. Since the 2015 Syrian refugee crisis, Europe has been experiencing another mass flow of refugees from Ukraine; the total number recorded is currently 5 million...
by Fatih Yilmaz | Mar 9, 2022 | Commentary, Ukraine Crisis Horizon
Europe and the Western World has been experiencing a big new wakeup call after Russian Armed Forces initiated its invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Putin announced a “special military operation” to “demilitarise and denazify” Ukraine...
by Fatih Yilmaz | Aug 29, 2020 | Book Review
James J. Coyle’s book “Russia’s Border Wars and Frozen Conflicts”[1] focuses on four conflicts on the periphery of the former Soviet Union, namely Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Nagorno-Karabagh. Coyle examines origins and execution of Russian military and political...
by Fatih Yilmaz | Nov 28, 2018 | Commentary, Geopolitics, Geopolitics & International Security
What happened? On Sunday, Russian Coast Guard vessels fired at and detained two Ukrainian small armed boats and a tugboat with their crews (leaving a number of Ukrainian crews wounded) off the Crimean coast on their way from Odesa to Mariupol Port. Russia...
by Fatih Yilmaz | May 5, 2017 | Book Review, Geopolitics, Geopolitics & International Security
The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy* As European Union is currently having a hard time with several internal problems, such as BREXIT and the rise of national populist parties against the union, it is worth reviewing the famous book “The United States...
