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Syria after Assad Between American Conditionality and Russian Recalibration

Syria after Assad: Between American Conditionality and Russian Recalibration

The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024 forced a fundamental recalibration of Syria’s external relationships, particularly with...

Shattered Status Quo Iranian Resilience and the Limits of U

Shattered Status Quo: Iranian Resilience and the Limits of U.S. Strategy

The nearly 50-year-long tension between the United States and Iran has culminated in a broad, high-intensity conflict. The visible dynamics that...

Syria in the Making One Year of Struggle for Recognition

Syria in the Making: One Year of Struggle for Recognition and Territorial Unity

Approximately one year after the fall of the Assad regime, Syria has made concrete progress in securing international recognition and stabilizing...

The Geopolitics of Connectivity and the Development Road Project

The Geopolitics of Connectivity and the Development Road Project

This article explores the growing significance of connectivity in contemporary geopolitics, using the Development Road Project led by Türkiye and...

Unfolding Hegemony Why Saudi Arabia Is Israel s Next Target

Unfolding Hegemony: Why Saudi Arabia Is Israel’s Next Target Post-2026 Iran War

Following the 2023 Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, Israel has pursued an expansive, revisionist strategy to establish undisputed regional hegemony....

The Gaza Genocide From Bombardment Displacement and Starvation to a

The Gaza Genocide: From Bombardment, Displacement, and Starvation to a New U.S.-Israeli Occupation

This article discusses the genocide in Gaza since 2023, now widely recognized by scholars, as a distinctive case in which Israel has used military...

Warfare for a Dying World Order What the U S

Warfare for a Dying World Order: What the U.S.-Israel-Iran War Means

Contemporary warfare increasingly reflects an international environment in which military force is deployed unilaterally and beyond established...

Contribution of an NGO to the Terror-Free Türkiye Initiative IHH

Contribution of an NGO to the Terror-Free Türkiye Initiative: IHH’s Perspective

In Türkiye, İHH has been particularly engaged with the Kurdish issue, a long-standing political, social, and security challenge, addressing its...

Terror-Free Türkiye More than Eliminating Weapons from the Story

Terror-Free Türkiye: More than Eliminating Weapons from the Story

The new political process in Türkiye, initiated by Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), and the aim for a...

A Türkiye-Specific Model for Ending Terrorism Terror-Free Türkiye

A Türkiye-Specific Model for Ending Terrorism: “Terror-Free Türkiye”

This commentary explains the basis on which the Turkish authorities launched a new political initiative, called Terror-Free Türkiye, which aims...

Path to Peace Principled Negotiation for Azerbaijan and Armenia

Path to Peace: “Principled Negotiation” for Azerbaijan and Armenia

This commentary examines the application of basic provisions of the principled negotiation method in the ongoing Armenia-Azerbaijan peace talks....

Algeria s Diplomatic Mobility toward New Regional and International Prestige

Algeria’s Diplomatic Mobility toward New Regional and International Prestige

Algeria’s tumultuous geopolitical environment has often pushed its leaders to reshape the country’s foreign policy and military doctrine...

The UAE in Northeast Africa Navigating the Ups and Downs

The UAE in Northeast Africa: Navigating the Ups and Downs of a ‘By Any Means Necessary’ Policy

Evidence shows that the UAE’s interest in Africa gained significant momentum in the post-2010 period. Principally anchored around economic and...

The Hollow Promise of Recognition in the Shadow of the

The Hollow Promise of Recognition in the Shadow of the Genocide in Gaza

The recent wave of recognition of the Palestinian state comes at a moment when an unprecedented combination of Zionist settler-colonial eliminatory...

Geopolitical Implications of Israel s June 13 Attacks against Iran

Geopolitical Implications of Israel’s June 13 Attacks against Iran: Changing Regional Power Balances

This commentary analyses Israel’s simultaneous air, cyber, and covert strike against Iran on June 13, 2025, from a regional security perspective....

Reflection on ADF2025 AI as Silent Superpower and Influencer for

Reflection on ADF2025: AI as Silent Superpower and Influencer for Africa

The Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF) 2025 convened during a time of global uncertainty, marked by conflicts, trade rivalries, and escalating AI-driven...

President Xi Jinping s Perception of the Main Entities in

President Xi Jinping’s Perception of the Main Entities in Technological Innovation and China’s Technological Innovation System

China has developed a distinct technological innovation system through its innovation-driven development strategy, positioning enterprises as key...

The Global Data Supply-Chain for Artificial Intelligence and Its Paradoxes

The Global Data Supply-Chain for Artificial Intelligence and Its Paradoxes

Data are a crucial aspect of deep learning models and the groundwork for contemporary artificial intelligence. While it is common to point out...

AI Technologies in Intercultural Communication Opportunities or Consequences

AI Technologies in Intercultural Communication: Opportunities or Consequences?

This paper examines the application of technologies in the context of intercultural communication to determine the opportunities and consequences...

Digital Geopolitics and U S -China Competition

Digital Geopolitics and U.S.-China Competition

The wide range of digital technologies, coupled with their strategic indispensability, not only reshapes traditional international relations; it...

Key Advances in the Research Development and Innovation Ecosystem of

Key Advances in the Research, Development, and Innovation Ecosystem of Türkiye

This commentary outlines Türkiye’s significant progress in advancing its research, development, and innovation (RDI) ecosystem, led by TÜBİTAK in...

Türkiye s National Technology Move amid Global Shifts

Türkiye’s National Technology Move amid Global Shifts

This commentary examines Türkiye’s National Technology Move as a timely and determined response to major shifts in the global industrial and...

From Dictatorship to Transition Syria s Future in a Changing

From Dictatorship to Transition: Syria’s Future in a Changing Middle East

On December 8, 2024 the nearly 60-year-long Baathist dictatorship in Syria, led by the Assad regime, came to an end following a 12-day military...

BRICS and the Challenges of the International System Ahead

BRICS and the Challenges of the International System Ahead

The evolving international system is undergoing significant structural transformations, marked by shifting economic power, geopolitical...

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