Security & Conflict
Cashing in on Counterterrorism: The Kuveyt-Turk Participation Bank Case
On June 13, St. Francis Assisi, a California-based nonprofit mutual benefit corporation, on behalf of Assyrian Christians, filed a complaint in the Northern District...
Anxiety in Ankara: Assassination, Geopolitics, and Democracy in Turkey
On December 19, 2016, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, was assassinated by Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, an off-duty police officer, in Ankara during...
Why is Europe able to manage its decline, while Asia is (still) unable to capitalize (on) its successes
How to draw the line between the recent and still unsettled EU/EURO crisis and Asia’s success story? Well, it might be easier than it...
The curious case of a Russian hacking
Ever since Donald Trump won the elections, the Democrats who have been (or ‘were’) very magnanimous about the fact they would accept the election...
Manufactured Bogeyman: Trump, Mainstream Media, and Russian Hacking
The current America media coverage in the West on the Russian-hacking scandal has largely been used to further portray President-elect Donald Trump as either...
Turkey’s Independence Struggle
W e are witnessing terrorist organizations using a tool in the war between countries. Turkey has been fighting PKK terrorist organization for...
Is the U.S. fighting terrorism or manufacturing it?
P resident Obama's final foreign policy speech at MacDill air force base in Tampa, betrayed its purpose through the venue. The Tampa,...
THAAD MAD BAD, Pt. IV: Great Power Geostrategic Play in the South China Sea
T here is a fascinating interplay that goes on today on the global level when it comes to foreign affairs. On the...
Additional considerations on the Uyghur issue
X injiang is the leverage for China's future strategic destabilization. In fact, while we can see a shift of the US strategic...
India-Israel attuned ambitions
W hile coming to power on May 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi concerted efforts to infuse a new momentum in Indo-Israel relations....