US's Asia Policy after Withdrawal from TPP

The already weakened ties with allies in the region due to former U.S. President Obama's policies may receive another blow after the U.S.'s withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, unless Trump is quick to take action to fix ties

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US's Asia Policy after Withdrawal from TPP
Erdoğan Keeps the Momentum in Africa

Erdoğan Keeps the Momentum in Africa

Erdoğan's principal messages to African leaders focus on establishing long-term social and economic partnerships on the basis of mutual respect and common benefits through capacity building, entrepreneurship and human development

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Relations between the Trump team and the media may further sour in the coming days. The international system and regional crises are also not making Trump's job easier.

The Trump administration's Middle East policy runs the risk of aggravating the existing chaos in the region. Under the current circumstances, countries without serious domestic problems stand to benefit from the wind of change.

The Trump administration must adopt a reasonable policy both in domestic and foreign platforms and not allow the world to become a place where every actor loses in the end

Surely, Trump, an unusual political figure with his personality, political rhetoric and style, will leave an unforgettable mark in U.S. politics, yet, whether it will be good or bad is uncertain

Further Factors Shaping Trump's Foreign Policy

Trump’s tweets and phone conversation with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen demonstrated he wants to shake things up in regards to China

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Further Factors Shaping Trump's Foreign Policy
Bracing For the Trump World'

Bracing For the ‘Trump World'

While the whole world braces itself for potential surprises to be displayed by the Trump administration, U.S.-China relations will be especially critical from both a global geopolitics and political economy perspective

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When considering the Russian state as European and Western, the world may face a renewed global confrontation between different Western/European power blocs

Although the incoming Trump administration's strategy in the global arena remains blurry, it is certain the world will be never the same after the inauguration ceremony

After the inauguration ceremony on Jan. 20, the most critical issue on the Trump administration's desk will be efforts to put the U.S. back into the game of reshaping the new balance of power

The diversity of the cyberattacks demonstrated to the incoming Trump administration that it must try to stop any possible attacks, while improving its ability to be pro-active and retaliate

Trump is totally unpredictable and his victory was unprecedented so any analysis is unlikely to predict future U.S. foreign policy

The future seems almost dark for Western values which are under attack by the revival of racism, populism, Islamphobia and xenephobia in societies

It was no secret that the Obama administration has long maintained the strategy of pursuing controlled confrontation with Vladimir Putin's Russia via micro-conflicts in multiple confrontation zones such as the Asia-Pacific, Ukraine and Syria

Trump will not simply bring forward the pragmatic framework of the U.S.'s grand strategy which was suppressed during the Obama period, but attempt to fully renew the ideological framework as well

The Trump administration's decisions over economic statecraft and geoeconomics will be determinative for the future of U.S. foreign policy

Turkey will continue to resist speculative attacks orchestrated by domestic and international investors with an optimal mixture of prudent governance and counter-speculative moves made by key market players

Globetrotting may make Japan more visible up to a certain point. More important is discussing and debating the potential options in foreign policy.

Defining Erdoğan's political vision, which has found a wide response in Turkey, as "ethnic or Islamic nationalism," is a big mistake. Erdoğan's political vision could be described as "civic nationalism" at best.

The kind of foreign policy the new U.S. administration adopts will be the new topic of debate with Donald Trump's presidency