by Alexy Zender* | Dec 19, 2018 | Commentary, Energy Security, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
Turkey is looking for an alternative to the alliance formed around Cyprus By Alexy Zender[1] Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced on September 2018 that Turkey could begin drilling operations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the following months. As...
by Anne Speckhard | Nov 30, 2018 | Commentary, Fighting Organised Crime and Terrorism, Radicalisation & Polarisation
By Anne Speckhard*, Ardian Shajkovci** During its heyday, ISIS and other militant groups attracted 40,000 foreign fighters in an unprecedented migration of men, women, and children to the battlegrounds of Syria and Iraq. Now, with the near territorial defeat of ISIS...
by Fatih Yilmaz | Nov 28, 2018 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
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 Sebastian S. Stolberg | Nov 27, 2018 | Commentary, Peace & Conflict Management, Political & Hybrid Warfare
We have been witnessing baffling developments in the last month, which corroborate our earlier observations on deteriorating liberal world order. On 20 October 2018, President Donald Trump stated his intention to pull U.S. out of INF Treaty and build up its arsenal...
by Anne Speckhard | Nov 20, 2018 | Commentary, Fighting Organised Crime and Terrorism, Radicalisation & Polarisation
By Anne Speckhard*, Ardian Shajkovci** The Syrian civil uprising, abuses by Syrian President Bashar Assad, and calls from terrorist groups such as the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra, an offshoot of al Qaeda, resulted in an estimated 40,000 or more foreign fighters...
by Saban Yuksel | Nov 16, 2018 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
The negotiators have finally reached an agreement on the UK’s withdrawal from the EU on 14 November after months of hectic bargaining. The development hit the headlines and spread over the social media. Yet, is it really over? Do we know what has happened and what...
