T urkey, once a model for Muslim-majority countries, has been going through an authoritarian backslide since the last several years. This trend peaked following the failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016. The post-coup…
F ifty years ago, a fierce war between Israel and its neighbours changed the map of the Middle East and transformed Israeli politics and its relations with the wider world.
The effects of that Six-Day…
T he Matryoshka, the famous Russian wooden doll which has another smaller doll within it, and yet another, and then another, and so on. Innocuous by itself, the doll represents a type of cultural…
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T he recent Kurdish referendum in Iraq may have wide-reaching repercussions that are of great importance when considering the future of the Middle East. Experts have surmised that Iran will be the…
I n mid-September, together with former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, chairperson of the Committee on Foreign Affairs at the German Bundestag Marieluis Beck, and former US Ambassador to NATO Alexander Versbow, I…
T he Catalan government is determined to go through with its plans to hold an independence referendum. With the country on the verge of a constitutional crisis, a negotiated solution becomes crucial.
On 1 October,…
T he referendum in Kurdistan on Kurdish independence from Iraq has, to say the least, stoked anxiety in regional and international capitals as to what comes next.
Secession would threaten the legitimacy of Iraq’s territorial integrity,…
T he International Exhibition in Astana has shown the world the Kazakh commitment of being a leader of the future energy revolution. However, EXPO 2017 Astana is not only a project with enthusiastic origins…
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F ormer Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi called for an end to the Iranian nuclear deal known as the GCPOA at a rally held in New York this week.
“In the European Parliament,…