Strategic Patience and the Insanity of 'Lone Wolves'
Adopting a foreign policy with reference to strategic patience, Washingtons current stance against ongoing conflicts continues to create new problems for the region as well as at the global level
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Losing the War Against Terrorism
While trying to understand the causes and outcomes of the war in Iraq, the U.S. administration will need to deal with these multiple challenges and evolving situation on the ground at the same time.
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It is imperative to rethink how to frame security around the question of Israel-Palestine within policy-making circles.
Turkey's policy entrepreneurship within the G-20 has been weaker compared to similar middle powers, but holding the rotating presidency presents a golden opportunity to upgrade its activism in economic diplomacy platforms.
U.S. officials are eager to point their fingers at Turkey and blame Ankara for its inaction in the crisis in Kobani.
The analysis offers a local, regional and global landscape of key issues and actors in regards to the new rounds of the American brokered peace process between Israel and the Palestinian Authority under the Kerry Talks.
The Arab Spring and the Appropriation of the "War On Terror"
Since January 2011, Arab regimes have also employed the terrorism card to maintain their grip on government.
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The Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria and the Future of International Norms
Forget about the intervention against those who betray the norm, the United States does not even adopt a dissuasive strategy in Egypt; therefore, foundations of a period where the use of chemical weapons by authoritarian regimes would be treated as normal from now on have been laid.
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The world and Turkey, especially within the last five years, have experienced head-spinning events. In fact, the turbulent environment of the last five years does not indicate anything but an even more difficult year ahead.
In the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, the strategy that regional forces adopt will determine the future of the occupation in Iraq.
Bin Laden whom George W. Bush had declared would be captured "dead or alive" after the 9/11 attacks was killed by the Obama administration.
Political demonstrations in Tunisia and Egypt have sparked a century old discussion: Is Turkey a model for the Middle East?
Returning to Tunisia after 20 years in exile,the opposition leader Ghannouchi said Turkey provided political inspiration.
After 10 years of service as head of the Labour Party and the prime minister of Great Britain, Tony Blair left office yesterday. He leaves behind a mixed legacy. His unyielding support for Turkey’s EU membership has been crucial for improving relations between Turkey and the UK. But Mr. Blair has also been a staunch ally of the Bush doctrine. How will history remember him?
The meeting between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and President George W. Bush at the White House last Monday was expected to be a turning point for Turkey’s war on Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorism as well as for US-Turkish relations; at least some on the Turkish side thought so. While Prime Minister Erdoğan said he was happy with the outcome of the meeting, it is simplistic to interpret this as a watershed event in US-Turkish relations.
In one of his farewell speeches the outgoing Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer reiterated his belief that the regime in Turkey is in danger. He thinks that if Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan becomes president the secular principles of the republic will be jeopardized. President Sezer is not alone in this.
Iraq is like a miniature of the Middle East with its population structure and social characteristics. Each domestic actor in Iraq has relations with ethnic and religious groups in the neighboring countries.
