What Turkey wants
The shooting down of the Russian military aircraft, and the subsequent attack of the jihadist "Turkmen" on the helicopter sent from the base of...
10 Questions for the Future of Russia-Turkey Relations
Most of the world raised a curious eyebrow when news broke of a Russian military jet being knocked from the sky by Turkey, resulting...
Reconstituting Syria
Public discussion of the Syrian situation has tended to focus on the plight of the Syrian refugees and their effects on neighboring countries, the...
Europe’s new geopolitics following the Russian presence in Syria and Iraq
After the shooting down of the Russian Su-24 aircraft by a Turkish F-16 fighter, some analysts are envisaging a future scenario of waged war....
False Promise: How the Turkish-Russian Dilemma Unmasks NATO
There is no shortage of security threats to the NATO alliance: a resurgent and militarily active Russia; the territorial and global jihadist threat of...
Wishful Thinking: The Conservative Hold on Power in Post-JCPOA Iran
Within the Iranian domestic political scene the use of the nuclear program to affect elections has been in place for the past decade or...
The shooting down of the Russian plane
A Russian aircraft, a Sukhoi-24, which NATO calls Fencer, the low-flying tactical bomber - an aircraft considered better than our Tornado - was shot...
Beijing -Taipei Rapprochement or Rhetoric
Having series of conflicts, crisis and tensions in Taiwan Strait, it seems land bodies around the blue water are willing to forge a peace...
Russia: Attempting a Bridge to Africa
While Russia's interest in the sub-Saharan Africa is nothing new, Russian authorities have realized that it’s time to move back primarily to reclaim its...
Rethinking War on Terror
There is a claim constantly circulating the EU: ‘multiculturalism is dead in Europe’. Dead or maybe d(r)ead?... That much comes from a cluster of...