“Pull Your Car Over!” Ethnic Profiling in the Netherlands
The Dutch border police can use ethnicity as a criterion for selecting citizens for checks at the border. To the Netherlands’ court this is constitutional.
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Trump’s Double “Conflation” Problem
In such an “interconnected” and “intertwined” world, the economic sphere must have a certain degree of immunity from politics. Not…
Egypt’s Energy Activism as a Threat to Security in the Eastern Mediterranean
Egypt and its allies preferred to exclude the most important countries in the Eastern Mediterranean from the equation. Excluding Turkey,…
Tunisia in a Predicament: Echoes of the Tunisian Revolution Lingering
Blaise’s aphorism that ‘frustration at that failure has no more gruesome expression than Tunisia’s tide of self-immolations’ (Blaise, Self-Immolation, Catalyst…
Turkey’s Relationship with Pakistan and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
With the BRI and CPEC aimed at enhancing economic integration and prosperity in the region, it surely provides a firm…
Another Bumpy Week in US-Turkey Relations
The continued U.S. insistence on the use of the general category “Kurds” to describe the YPG forces in northern Syria…
Can Germany’s Non-Permanent Seat at the UN Security Council Bring Reform?
Germany already had established together with Brazil, Japan and India the so-called G4 group in order to support the mutual…
US-Turkey Cooperation in Syria Requires Serious Strategy
Going forward, the central question will remain the same: what is the U.S. strategy in Syria? With or without U.S.…
Do Historical Analogies Make Sense to Understand the Yellow Vest Movement in France?
Despite all these comparisons, it is commonly believed that the Yellow Vests constitute an unprecedented phenomenon. And currently, Macron’s power…
How the Presidential Systems in the US and Turkey React Differently to Budget Issues
The longest government shutdown occurred under President Bill Clinton and this had costed the government billions of dollars. A government…
How will Oman Respond to the U.S. Sanctions on Iran?
With its years of experience in neutral policies, one would consider that Oman would find a way to respond to…
Discourse of Fear in Indonesia: Upcoming Presidential Elections
Prabowo asserted that if he does not defeat incumbent president Jokowi in the upcoming April 2019 elections, the nation will…
Lack of Sensitivity against Discrimination in Germany: The Gedeon Affair
Subsequent to some warning words by the President, Gedeon attacked the President by stating “she could lead a parliament that…
Mohammad bin Salman’s Communication Strategy and PR Work to Survive
The investments made in the lobbying works and the U.S. and Russia will not be enough to save the Crown…
Yellow Vests and Little Red Riding Hood
Having come to Brussels for a conference organized by far-right groups in a way reminiscent of the wolf disguised as…
Seven Challenges for New CDU Leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer needs to clarify her relations with Angela Merkel. Even though she underscores her own career path by pointing…
Populism: The New Wave of “Magic” in Europe?
The country that elected Macron for a revolution is now pushing him to the edge for another revolution.
Yellow Vest Protests and the Constraints of Modern Democracy
The yellow vests uprising is not an identity movement. This very aspect is the actual threat posed against the state since…
What does the French Democracy Crisis Indicate?
Macron represents himself as the voice of the liberals against authoritarian nationalists for the 2019 European Parliament elections. However, the…
