Turkey’s Strategic Reset: Engagement instead of contention
‘The EU loves to portray itself as a pan-European project. However, it stubbornly rejects and systematically demonises the only two European countries that have...
Multiple Choice:The SCO Finds Its Way
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization has intensified its focus on regional economic initiatives like the China-led Silk Road Economic Belt and the Russia-lead Eurasian Economic...
Strategic Hatred: How Putin Maneuvers with Radical Islam
This case study provides an analytical commentary on the article written by Prof. David Bukay in ‘Modern Diplomacy’ on the issue of why Islam...
Yellow Light Deterrence: Poor American Strategy in the South China Sea
In 2001, in response to an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreement with China regarding conduct in the South China Sea, Odgaard (2001)...
The China-Russia axis and Eurasia
The profound connection between the Slavs and the Asian races has a prominent place in the long-standing tradition of the Eurasist doctrine. At philosophical...
The Greatness of a ‘Normal’ Iran: The Real Challenges for a Post-JCPOA
The recent Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreements between Iran and the international community will, no doubt, have a major impact on Iranian...
The Ass and the Elephant: Russia and the American Presidency
Whether one truly believes in the old adage that the President of the United States is the ‘leader of the free world’...
Syria’s ‘Competing Interventions:’ Much Ado Accomplishing Nothing
The Syrian conflict has led to the failure of the Syrian state, which has had consequences for not only the Middle East, but a...
The Eurasian project and the geopolitics of Brexit
With specific reference to Brexit - an issue that we have analyzed extensively - we need to define both its effects on Europe's new...
A Coup And a Very British Coup: The Chaos of Brexit
In 1952, a group of army officers mounted a successful revolution in Egypt. King Farouk was sent into exile and his son Fuad put...