by Samet Coban | Jul 10, 2018 | Geopolitics & Great Power Politics, Research
ABSTRACT Burden sharing has been one of the most hotly contested issues in NATO especially since the end of Cold War. Trump’s bitter statements about utility of the Alliance in the wake of his election and following urge by U.S. policy-makers to make Europe pay...
by Transatlantic Task Force | Apr 19, 2018 | Geopolitics & Great Power Politics, Research
By Angelo Jong, Ibrahim Genc, Joshua Saunders, Liseth Medina Vizcaino Abstract The Structural Synergies of Power (SSP) Method will be used in this global response strategy to explore the interlocking systems of power which have led to the creation of the...
by Onur Sultan | Jan 29, 2018 | Geopolitics & Great Power Politics, Research
Daesh is about to lose the whole territory it holds in Syria and Iraq once as big as the UK. The Salafi jihadist organization, ruling over 6 million population with an army of 30.000 in 2015, had benefited from sectarian and ethnic tensions and imposed its ideology...
by Alexander Jr. Ross | Jan 28, 2018 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics, War and Conflict
Operation Olive Branch, which started on 20 January 2018, has been advancing in multiple axes towards Afrin. On the 9th day of the operation, Turkish Forces together with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) units have not yet confronted by a serious resistance from the...
by Murat Caliskan | Jan 24, 2018 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
“There is nothing new under the sun” is a biblical idiom refers to the thinking that the essence of human life remains unchanged. It doesn’t mean that nothing changes. We cannot ignore the inventions in technology or the advances in various lines of social life....
by Sebastian S. Stolberg | Jan 8, 2018 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics, Modern Air & Space Power, Political & Hybrid Warfare
Increased tension over the past couple of years between West and Turkey has reached to another level after Turkey and Russia signed an accord for supplying S-400 surface-to-air missile batteries. The S-400 deal, reportedly worth some $2.5 billion and according...