Ümit Seven | 08 March 2024
On March 2, 2024, the United States (US) conducted its first airdrop of humanitarian assistance for Gaza. Three C-130 cargo planes dropped food in pallets over the Mediterranean coast of southwest Gaza.[1] This airdrop [...]
Ümit Seven | 14 June 2022
This paper examines the approaches to providing humanitarian assistance and post-conflict reconstruction in the Syrian civil war with a focus on Western states and Russia. It first demonstrates the divergent approaches to early recovery
Ümit Seven | 24 August 2021 | AR
The Fall of Kabul: Foreign intervention, state-building, and political legitimacy In October 2001, the United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan on horseback to oust the Taliban. In a few months, the Taliban regime [...]
Ümit Seven | 07 March 2021
Christopher Phillips, The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East. The conflict in Syria shortly assumed regional and global dimensions following the first protests in the southern city of Deraa in [...]
