by Yasin YAVUZ | Aug 13, 2017 | Commentary, Fighting Organised Crime and Terrorism, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics, Radicalisation & Polarisation
The structural factors behind Middle East rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia are so deep and it’s very difficult to overcome the problems in the near future.[1] Except the temporary peace like term between 1941-1979 when Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ruled Iran, the...
by John Quartz | Aug 9, 2017 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
In line with the universal ban on use of force, relations in military field are subject to more limitations than relations in other fields. One of few exceptions of military involvement in another country is the consent of that state. In this analysis having state...
by Onur Sultan | Aug 8, 2017 | Book Review, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
Buzan, Barry., & Waever, Ole. (2003). Regions and Powers. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Barry Buzan and Ole Weawer’s work “Regions and Powers” can be cited as an important book attempting to lay the foundations of regional security dynamics in a given...
by Sebastian S. Stolberg | Jul 30, 2017 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
Turkey is willing to buy S-400 missile defence system from Russia and there are some serious recent developments regarding this deal. Recent Developments On July 14, 2017, Bloomberg published a detailed article about that deal. The main points of the deal...
by Nele Marianne Ewers-Peters | Jul 24, 2017 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
On 25 May 2017, NATO leaders met in Brussels to celebrate the opening the new headquarters in Boulevard Léopold III. The location of the new headquarters is historically very significant: during construction four unexploded bombs from both the First and Second World...
by Nicolas Del Ferro | Jul 5, 2017 | Geopolitics & Great Power Politics, Research
The Balkan Peninsula, being located on the border line between East and West, Islam and Christianity, communism and capitalism (during the Cold War), has proven its strategic importance by playing great roles in both World Wars. Moreover, in many times, Balkans itself...