Dimitar Bechev | 07 January 2021
The launch of the Transadriatic Pipeline (TAP) has spearheaded the export of gas from the Caspian to Italy and Southeast Europe and inaugurated the much-discussed Southern Gas Corridor
Kamaran Palani | 06 January 2021 | AR
Youth disillusionment with the heavily politicised system of governance in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) is not new. What is new is that young people’s anger and frustration now present a serious challenge to the KRI’s internal legitimacy
Omer Aslan | 07 December 2020 | TR
For the last two years, several members of the League of Arab States (LAS) have taken incremental steps to bring Syria back under the LAS tent. Oman never cut diplomatic ties with Syria, and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain reopened their embassies in Damascus. Several other Arab states such as Algeria, Iraq, Tunisia, and Lebanon have been calling for Syria’s return to the League
Leonid M. Issaev 
Andrei Zakharov | 05 November 2020
The Republic of Yemen, the current borders of which were carved in 1990, was the embodiment of the aspiration of two formerly existing Yemeni states, the Northern and the Southern, for political unity with the preservation of regional specificity. Nevertheless, the Civil War in 1994
Can Kasapoglu | 02 November 2020 | AR | TR
Amidst the Mediterranean turmoil, the Turkish Navy stands in the middle of current political-military affairs. In league with Turkey's burgeoning technological and industrial defense base, the navy has been acquiring new capabilities. Furthermore, Turkey's sea-power deterrent has been gaining a new geopolitical horizon through the widely-debated Blue Homeland concept. This brief focuses on the main pillars and trajectory of the Turkish Navy's transformation through a strategic lens
Mitat Celikpala | 01 October 2020 | AR | TR
The Eastern Mediterranean is one of the hottest issues that has occupied the agenda of both international security and politics lately. The intense competition has entered a new phase with some recent developments
Mohammed Sinan Siyech | 10 September 2020
The civil war in Yemen has now been raging for a full five years with the complicated, multi actor conflict taking place across multiple geographical regions of the nation
Nikolay Kozhanov | 06 August 2020 | TR
The negative impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the hydrocarbon producers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is raising serious questions about the need to change the focus of Gulf energy security from
Jonathan Fenton-Harvey | 29 July 2020
COVID-19 has spread rapidly in Yemen, although this has gone largely under-reported. The health system in the country has collapsed due to five years of war
Ahmed Mohsen | 20 July 2020 | AR | TR
The role of governments in managing the COVID-19 pandemic crisis is what determines the outcomes in each country, among other significant factors
