by Alexy Zender* | Feb 2, 2020 | Commentary, Political & Hybrid Warfare
Blockchain technology began to occupy public agenda with the expansion of crypto coins as an investment and payment method. Blockchain, which has the support of smart contracts as well as mathematical algorithms, is speculated to have great potential in many areas...
by Dr. Aziz Erdogan* | Jan 31, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Commentary, Disruptive Technologies
Background The Russian Defense Ministry stated that at least two service members were killed and four injured on 08 August 2019 following the blast at a testing ground on the northern coastline of Russia. On 12 August, the...
by Erman Atak* | Jan 22, 2020 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
Merkel highlighted two main results of the Berlin Conference; the first one is continuation of a fragile truce, which could turn into a permanent cease-fire through military committee negotiations of the warring factions and the second one is the re-commitment of the...
by Erman Atak* | Jan 14, 2020 | Commentary, Terrorism, Conflict and War, War and Conflict
Possibility of Turkish military intervention caused an increase in the external military support to Haftar. Despite his powerful words and Parliamentary approval to troop deployment plans, Erdogan is not able to send a decisive force to back GNA side. On the other...
by Bahri Kosar* | Jan 10, 2020 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
Never-ending tension in the Middle East escalated once again when the U.S. killed a crucial Iranian military figure, Qasem Soleimani, in Iraq months before the U.S. presidential election. Soleimani’s death, of course, outraged the Iranian government, not only because...
by Steven Blockmans* | Jan 9, 2020 | Commentary, Events & Activities, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics, Proceedings
Thank you very much for having me via video-link. Congratulations to the friends at Beyond the Horizon for mounting this impressive conference. I apologise for not being able to join you in person and would like to thank the organisers for allowing me to beam in from...
