Libya’s Political Atmosphere Is a Gordian Knot
As it is known, accessing the Mediterranean has been a consistent and significant goal of Russian foreign policy, which seeks to challenge NATO’s naval supremacy and the U.
Turkey Closes Airspace to Russian Planes Flying to Syria
Turkey also took a similar decision for the passage of NATO warships for a preplanned exercise in the region.
The Contested Waters of the South China Sea
Read: Taiwan amidst the Emerging China – US Cold WarPreviously, in 1994, Ukraine was given security assurances for abandoning its nuclear weapons by the signatories of the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances.
Why Turkey Is Conducting Operation Claw-Lock in Northern Iraq Now
Some of the challenges Ankara faces are the protests by Baghdad and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), restrictions on necessary military hardware by NATO allies, the geographic depth and height of the PKK hideouts, and the proximity of the Qandil Mountains to the Iranian border.
The United Kingdom and Denmark intend to Relocate Refugees to Rwanda
Reaction from human rights organizations
The Asylum Partnership Agreement proposed by the Home Office in the UK is in violation of asylum law and the Geneva Convention, to which the UK is a signatory.
Islamophobia and the French Presidential Election
She wanted to take France out of the military wing of NATO, but De Gaulle also did so in 1966.
How the Russia-Ukraine War Turned the Political Climate in France Upside Down
Read: France under Macron: All Citizens Can Criticize the Republic Except MuslimsAfter three years in which the most discriminatory laws of the Fifth Republic were enacted and anti-Islam and anti-Muslim hostility turned into a state policy, “immigrants, Islam, and Muslims” were at the forefront of the propaganda during the election campaigns.
South America: Left-Wing Candidates Score in Politics
Later, in 2006, he was re-elected as a senator in an election that saw the second highest voter turnout in the country.
De-Dollarizing Trade: How the Global Trade Finance Gets More Nationalized
-led sanctions on Russia after it launched a “military operation” in Ukraine “to prevent it from joining NATO.
Ukraine’s Military Transformation between 2014 and 2022
Ukraine’s deepening ties with the West and its ambitions to join NATO were harshly criticized by Moscow.
Hungary Election: War in Ukraine Provokes Passive Voters
The opposition mainly stood for a pluralistic political system and the repairing of alliances with the EU and NATO.
Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks: Turkey as the Peacemaker
While President Erdoğan called on NATO to take concrete action instead of merely uttering words to deter the Russian aggression, he also criticized practices such as firing a Russian conductor in Germany and banning Russian literary works in Italy in the name of sanctions against Russia.
American Political Opportunism and the Long Overdue Rohingya Genocide Determination
Myanmar is a signatory to the interstate treaty Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) or Genocide Convention.
Intelligence in the Russia-Ukraine War
Read: How the Ukraine War Will Give China More LeverageOn the other hand, Ukraine seems to have accurate and timely intelligence by NATO member states.
The Geopolitics of Russia-Turkey Relations amid the Ukraine War
For Russia, Turkey’s signing of a contract for the procurement of S-400s as a NATO member is valuable.
Russia-Ukraine War Pushes for New Defense Calculations
and other countries to raise its defense spending to 2% of the GDP, which is the guideline and expected target for all NATO members.
Power Politics and Moral Accountability
One after another, they spun a series of dubious and contradictory geopolitical projects—The Global War on Terror, democratizing the Greater Middle East, the pivot to East Asia, joining maritime zones to form an imaginary Indo-Pacific theater, and, through it all, the steady expansion of NATO into post-Soviet territories.
Ukraine: The Lesson Japanese Policy-Makers Won’t Learn
has a treaty obligation to protect Japan should the country be invaded, whereas there were never any concrete assurances of protection or even NATO membership to Ukraine (publicly at least).
The Urge to Kill to Survive: Russia’s Imperialist Expansionism Explained
The first group of states are the ones that became NATO members after 1997, that were once the former “Allies of the Soviet Union” and that proceeded with their democratic transition.
Russia’s War in Ukraine and the Global Struggle for Power
Above all, it appears that Putin is considering compensating for his country's conventional weakness vis-à-vis NATO with Russia’s massive nuclear weapons.
