W e are now entering “The Age of Encounter” — as argued by Hans Kribbe in The Strongmen.[1] In other words, it is an age of encounters with other “great powers” and seemingly irrational and…
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T he Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - that is threatening the very principles of sovereignty and democracy - has abruptly challenged the European security order, just as the continent was rising again…
S yrian refugee crisis has led the EU to revise its refugee policies and unveiled the EU’s political vulnerabilities and incapacity to overcome it on its own. Additionally, this problem demonstrated the asymmetric strategic…
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26 January 2021, 11h00-12h45 CET
Both the current COVID-19 pandemic and new geopolitical dynamics have highlighted the need for a stronger, assertive and united European foreign and security policy. As emphasized in…
T he relations between African countries and the European Union rely on an old story, beginning not only with the colonialism, hence, this old linkage has shaped the relations and created narratives still present…
T he European Union, through the countries of the E3 - the UK, France and Germany - as well as the European High Representative for External Affairs, played a critical and central role…
*This Opinion is co-authored with Mustafa Y. Karabayir.
A s he approaches his twentieth year in power, President Erdogan's popularity is at an all-time low, 38 percent approval rate[1], and significant socioeconomic and political indicators,…
M ultilateral diplomacy, defined as the practice of collegial engagement of countries to develop and implement diplomatic solutions to supranational problems, is at a turning point in its history. The structure of the…
R ecently, Mevlut Cavusoglu raised a few eyebrows in both Athens and Brussels. Following a few tensionless months in Eastern Mediterranean, the Turkish foreign minister threatened to use all available means, unless Cyprus’s…
O n 23rd of May, Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s brazen clampdown on his opposition came once more under heavy international criticism, after a Ryanair plane, flying from Athens to Vilnius, was forced to land in Minsk…