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20 May 2013 Monday
 
 
 
 
 
 
ORSAM - Centre for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies
The Centre for Strategic Communication (STRATIM)
EPC - European Policy Centre
Rethink Institute
Strategic Outlook
BILGESAM - Wise Men Center for Strategic Studies
SAM - Center for Strategic Research
IPC - Istanbul Policy Center
SDE - Institute of Strategic Thinking
SETA - Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research
GMF - The German Marshall Fund on Turkey
TESEV - Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation
TASAM - Turkish Asian Center for Strategic Studies
TURKSAM - Turkish Centre for International Relations and Strategic Analysis
USAK - International Strategic Research Organisation
European Stability Initiative
GPOT - Global Political Trends Center
EKOPOLITIK.ORG
IMPR - International Middle East Peace Research Center
Ankara Strategy Institute
When is it time to get serious about Syria?
This is well beyond a fair question, considering the situation in Syria. The enduring conflict and devastation in Syria exceeds many limits; it's a situation which can only be summed up with the term witnessed genocide. This is not the first time when human beings have been butchered before the eyes of the world, yet it should elicit our collective reflection and anguish nonetheless.
16 May 2013 /SÜLEYMAN ÖZEREN, USAK, 0
Syria's headache
On 5th of May Israeli Air Forces carried out an air raid over to prevent Hizbollah’s next strike to its borders through the Syrian territory. The mass media claims that, military jets had destroyed a military center and a party of missile rockets around the Damascus, district Jamrayya. Israeli authorities refused to give a statement about air raid to neighborhood country. According to Russia Today (RT) the prime aim of military jets was to attack headquarters of Presidential Guards and Syrian Intelligence Service. In total, 8-12 heavy bombs were dumped to Damascus.
10 May 2013 /FUAD SHAHBAZOV, STRATEGIC OUTLOOK, 0
Restoration of Iraq's Basra Marshes
Along with the water shortage in Iraq, the risk of destruction of the wetlands located in the south of Iraq has stayed on the agenda for a long time.
7 May 2013 /DR. TUĞBA EVRİM MADEN, ORSAM, 0
From the American Dream to the American Nightmare
The United States of America possesses the world’s largest economy, its strongest army, its most advanced technology and sophisticated weaponry. It has the potential to defeat a country many thousands of kilometres away in a war lasting only few months. But its strength conceals a great weakness: the struggle against terrorism.
7 May 2013 /PROF. DR. İHSAN BAL, USAK, 0
The Struggle Against Piracy: The Somalia Case And Turkey’s Position
Piracy and armed robbery at sea have always been detrimental to sea trade and transportation.
26 April 2013 /SADİ ÇAYCI, ORSAM, 0
The Symbolic Capital of Kazakh and Turkish Diplomacies Connecting Middle East and Central Asia
It is the utmost importance to comprehend the domestic politics in its relations with the international system especially in regard to Kazakhstan and Turkey. It is also for sure that within the international system, the negotiations occupy more attention than the space they occupy in the world politics. Experiencing negotiations come forward within the political economy of foreign policy making vis-à-vis the international organizations as in the case of Turkey’s longstanding negotiations with the European Union (EU) or Tajikistan’s negotiations with the World Trade Organization (WTO) having resulted in the former’s membership on March 2, 2013.
23 April 2013 /DANIYAR KOSNAZAROV, MURAT ÇEMREK, 0
Does Oil Split Iraq? Oil-Related Relationship between Turkey and the KRG
On the 10-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, the past decade is reviewed in many aspects. Nobody, nor any state, has doubts anymore about the fact of how wrong the US was for invading Iraq.
22 April 2013 /SERHAT ERKMEN*, ORSAM, 0
Aphrodite’s Gift: Can Cypriot Gas Power a New Dialogue?
Eastern Mediterranean tensions have risen since late 2011, when Greek Cypriots unilaterally began drilling in their rich offshore hydrocarbon reserves and Turkey responded with tough criticism and threatening naval manoeuvres. Contested maritime boundaries and exploration of natural gas deposits off the divided island are the sources of the current dispute, but tensions also result from the slowdown of UN-mediated Cyprus reunification talks.
11 April 2013 /INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP, EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, 0
War-Peace-Security triangle in the world and Turkey
Almost every day, when you watch the news, it is seen that there are many problems affecting the lives of individuals in international relations. The most important of these problems are wars or conflicts due to it is concerned with the right to life which is a fundamental human right.
2 April 2013 /ÖZNUR AKÇALI/DR. BURAK BİLGEHAN ÖZPEK, STRATEGIC OUTLOOK, 0
Plan B: Reset of the “Zero Problems with Neighbors” Principle
On 22 March 2013, official sources from Turkish Prime Minister’s Office confirmed that Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu expressed Israel’s apology for Mavi Marmara case (including for the death of nine Turks) in Gaza-bound flotilla in 2010.
25 March 2013 /ILGAR GURBANOV, STRATEGIC OUTLOOK, 0
The different logics shaping Turkey’s Approach towards EU membership
The anatomy of Turkey’s approach towards the European Union deserves a particular treatment at this time period, as Turkey has been formally negotiating its entry to the EU while the majority of Turkish people increasingly adopting skeptical attitudes towards the membership issue.
16 March 2013 /TARIK OĞUZLU, BİLGESAM, 0
Armenia’s second Sarksyan term
Polls and public research done in Armenia throughout the presidential election campaign confirmed that the winner of this most recent election would in fact be the then-current president, Serzh Azati Sarksyan.
13 March 2013 /MEHMET FATİH ÖZTARSU, STRATEGIC OUTLOOK, 0
Iran’s Policy Towards Syria: Security Implications of a 'Failed State' Scenario
Although turning Syria into a failed state will impose huge challenges on regional countries, it will nevertheless offer Iran many important opportunities on several fronts.
7 March 2013 /ALİ HUSSEİN BAKEER, USAK, 0
Turkey Acting in the Emerging World
The world is transforming at an unprecedented speed and Turkey’s efforts to accommodate itself in the emerging geopolitical configuration are attracting growing attention across the globe. A prime characteristic of the emerging global order is that no country is in a hegemonic position to set the rules and expect others to abide by them.
7 March 2013 /PROF. TARIK OĞUZLU, BİLGESAM, 0
Can we work it out: Prospects for regional cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean
The national elections in Israel and the elections on February 17 in the Republic of Cyprus might open a new chapter in cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean. Both countries are at the threshold of a new political period, where such issues as newly discovered substantial petrochemical deposits and their economic potential to turn these energy-poor countries to exporters of natural gas (most likely in liquefied form known LNG) to Europe and other global destinations.
21 February 2013 /ALEXANDER MURINSON, STRATEGIC OUTLOOK, 0
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