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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....
Backlash Deterrence: Effects of Russian Sanctions on Peripheral Europe
US sanctions throughout history have not always had the best success rate and the current sanctions against Russia may backfire on the United States,...
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...
The Wolves of Islamic Zealots: The Need for American-Russian Partnership
“Hellfire awaits you. Europe is shaking. Russia is dying.” These words uttered in an Islamic State (DAESH) propaganda video in November 2015 projected a...
Baby Steps: Trying to Reach Nuclear Global Zero
Non-nuclear weapon states have become increasingly disgruntled over what they perceive as the nuclear weapon states’ unwillingness to seriously commit to nuclear disarmament. ...
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...
The US strategic bet on India for a pivot Asia-Pacific Strategy
The geopolitical, geostrategic and the economic, significance of the Asia-Pacific region makes it an apple of everybody’s eye involving many powers struggling for the...