A centerpiece of President Biden’s agenda was a government led effort to greatly reduce production and consumption of fossil fuels. One of the key policies Biden enacted to pursue this goal was ending...
The case of Bob Menendez and others like him
The European Union (EU) on July 15 imposed sanctions against five Israelis and three organizations in the West Bank under the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime. “The listed...
As the war in Ukraine continues, Russia, with the help of its ally Serbia, is provoking chaos in the Balkans to distract the West. The Kremlin’s goal is to exacerbate the existing perilous ethnic tensions...
If President Erdogan wanted to ratify Sweden’s accession, he could convene the Turkish parliament within a matter of days for a special session.
What would happen if he were to prevail in Ukraine?
Three Turkish state-owned banks suspended their use of the Russian payment system “Mir” — Moscow’s alternative to the Brussels-based SWIFT messaging service — on Tuesday. This move comes amid...
Seeking concessions to support Finland and Sweden joining NATO has done damage to Turkey’s standing in Europe and its long-term security interests.
Why Erdoğan suddenly has a problem with Finland and Sweden joining NATO.
If Turkey joins Syria and Lebanon as the third narco-state in the Eastern Mediterranean, this will only compound the region’s trafficking and money laundering problems, while also presenting illicit non-state actors greater opportunities to exploit.
The White House had to walk back his remarks that ‘we have a commitment’ to defend Taiwan against China.
Our allies responded after 9/11, and many stayed with us throughout our two-decade mission.
Turkey’s Erdogan hoped to secure another bargaining chip with the West by taking over running of Kabul’s international airport. Suddenly, it’s not looking so simple.
Excerpt Carsten Wieland, Syria and the Neutrality Trap: The Dilemmas of Delivering Humanitarian Aid through Violent Regimes (Bloomsbury, 2021) Bashar al Assad relied on Russian warplanes to ensure his...
During a two-day visit to Northern Cyprus last week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan escalated tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean by threatening unilateral action, including an indirect land grab,...
Real rapprochement between the US and Turkey may have to wait the result of Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections in 2023.
Turkey reportedly used its veto power within NATO on Wednesday to water down an official condemnation of Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko for forcing down a passenger plane to arrest Roman Protasevich,...
Turkey reportedly conducted an expected live-fire test on Friday of its Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile system. The test represents a troubling milestone in the steady deterioration of Ankara’s relationship...
According to John Hopkins University, Qatar has suffered at least 216 total deaths and 126,339 total cases
Although Morocco seems to have escaped the worst of the pandemic with a relatively low number of confirmed cases and deaths, the COVID-19 crisis has devastated the country’s economy. Morocco, which has...