by Michael Stone | May 4, 2017 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics, Migration & Integration
As an indirect consequence of the Syrian conflict and the broader security environment in the Middle East, Europe has faced a serious refugee and migrant crisis in the last couple of years.1 This required intensive traffic between Western policy-makers and the Turkish...
by Michael Sanchez | May 4, 2017 | Commentary, Fighting Organised Crime and Terrorism, Radicalisation & Polarisation
Our understanding of terrorism is mostly shaped by politicians, who sometimes arbitrarily use this term to stigmatise even people who are opposing their policies. Terrorism or terrorist violence, however, is just a violent tactic that is used by insurgent groups, and...
by Isa Haskologlu | May 4, 2017 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
The Great Depression of the 1930s had caused traumatic and devastating economic effects on citizens. The events of today’s international world, especially tendencies of states after the 2008 Economic Crisis, are only confirming the saying that “The history repeats...
by Hasan Suzen* | Apr 28, 2017 | Commentary, Defence & Security, Political & Hybrid Warfare, Research
The aim of this study is to propose a model by comparing “fixed force composition and classical HQ structures” with “a New modular design” that could increase and enhance capabilities and capacity of armed forces, in particular flexibility, adaptability, agility, and...
