Turkey Steps Up Counter-Cyber Attack Efforts
Cyber wars between Russia, the United States, China, and in some cases North Korea, are good examples of this.
Sino-Soviet Split Redux under President Trump?
Perhaps the most important geopolitical puzzle since the collapse of the Soviet Union 25 years ago has been whether the United States will reorient its grand strategy to contain and encircle another rising great power, which is most likely to be China.
Turkey’s Double-Edged Strategy to Bring Regional Stability
The Turkish attack has also shaped the war on Daesh to the advantage of other players involved in Syria, notably, the United States.
The Geopolitical Crisis in the Caucasus, Ukraine, and the Middle East
This was the main expectation of Turkey from the United States.
The End of the Turkish-American ‘Alliance’ after the Failed Coup?
In order to assess the geopolitical dimensions of the failed coup in Turkey, first of all, one has to acknowledge that there is a near consensus in Turkey that the failed military coup was executed by the followers of Fetullah Gülen, who has been living in the United States since 1999.
Deconstructing the Gülenist Coup Attempt: A Political Economy Perspective
Adherents of the movement constituted a powerful web of institutions that extracted capital and human resources across a wide geography that spans from Latin America to Sub-Saharan Africa and from the United States to Central Asia.
The US Army Special Forces in Syria
The United States pursues its national interests with four main instruments: power, peace, prosperity and principles.
Sykes-Picot: The Symbol of Western Imperialism in the Middle East
the United States and Russia, follow the same logic of the Sykes-Picot and attempt to decide the fate of the Middle East by taking into consideration their own interests rather than those of the indigenous peoples.
Increasing Cooperation Between Ankara and Washington on the Syrian Issue: How About Revisiting the Safe Zone Idea?
Last week, just before President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to the United States, U.
On Nationalism, Ethnicity and Ethnicity Regimes
Every state by definition and by United Nations’ definition and international law definition implies a nation of its own
Well, let me move to the second question.
Russia in Syria
Assad’s troops participated to the international coalition led by the United States during the Second Gulf War against his old enemy, the Baathist Saddam Hussein.
ISIL: Horror and Terror Revisited
ISIL is a reflection of the situation created by the United States and, later, by Iran in the region.
Why “November 13th” can not and should not become a French “9/11”
At first glance, there are indeed many striking similarities between the two terrorist attacks and the way they both traumatized the United States of America in 2001 and France in 2015.
Downing of the Russian Jet, the Syrian Civil War and Turkish-Russian Relations
What probably explains the timing of the Russian military intervention in Syria in Fall 2015 were a series of defeats that the Assad regime suffered in the summer of 2015 against the opposition forces that are supported by Turkey, France, and the United States in some cases.
