Jabhat al-Nusra has long been one of the most militarily effective armed actors against the Syrian Ba’thist regime and it continues to play a...

The uprising against the decades-long Assad rule in Syria started as a series of peaceful demonstrations; however, the brutal crackdown of the...

What started as a peaceful protest in the spring of 2011 soon developed into one of the most vicious and internationalized conflicts of modern...

Turkish-German relations go back to the 16th century and have since then been sustained in different realms, such as the military, diplomacy and...

This paper examines the economic relations between Turkey and Germany, Turkey’s number one trade partner for over a century. It first ascertains...

The difficulty of rendering a meaningful image of the German media’s perception of Turkey lies in the general character of modern media itself –as...

In a crisis-ridden Europe Germany is at the center of the debate regarding the question of future power and leadership within the EU. Even those...

How did unbalanced civil-military relations affect democratization and political violence trends in the Middle East and North Africa? This article...

In the face of Europe’s biggest refugee crisis since WWII, many right wing and centrist politicians are using Islamophobia as a way to leverage...

The surge of Islamophobia in Europe has been linked with the growing popularity and agenda-setting power of the radical right. However, attributing...

In June 2015, Turkey’s governing Justice and Development Party (AK Party) lost its parliamentary majority after thirteen consecutive years in...

Although the Kurdish political movement has been participating in elections since 1991, never until June 2015 were they able to receive more than 7...

Washington’s Middle East policy is a shambles. The region’s turmoil fundamentally stems from the George W. Bush Administration’s disastrous...

Many expected the Arab uprisings to strengthen official and popular Arab support for Palestinian self-determination, and, for a time, they did....

This commentary discusses the ways in which Western counterterrorism policy in the Middle East resembles the Hollywood Film, Groundhog Day, in that...

The Iran nuclear deal has the potential to become a game changer in the Middle East by providing the opportunity for rapprochement between Iran,...

The Arab Spring offered Kurdish political actors in the region significant opportunities to advance their goals. Particularly in Syria and Iraq,...

In different ways, both the United States and Iran have engaged in nation-building in Iraq. The United States did so very explicitly, announcing to...

Iran’s response to the rise of ISIL has been driven by realpolitik rather than religious identity. ISIL threatens to undermine Iran’s regional...

Since the beginning of the 2000s the global energy landscape has undergone constant change. Various factors have affected both the demand and...

The logic of energy security is changing, with supply security being de-emphasized, governance and collective solutions are being increasingly...

The cancellation of the South Stream Project and the announcement of a new pipeline project in its stead, recently promoted and called the Turkish...

It is widely accepted that identities are stable and they are one of the main motivations for alliance formations. The recent political rivalry...

The most notable aspect of the 2015 Israeli parliamentary elections was that the incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has entered his fourth...