Harun Karcic | 08 August 2022
Russia’s invisible hand in Kosovo The global media spotlight this week was briefly redirected from Ukraine to the Balkans, more precisely – to Kosovo. The latest flare-up in tensions was related to new rules [...]
Betul Dogan Akkas | 02 August 2022
Biden's fruitless visit to Saudi Arabia and beyond: the elephant in the room remains Last month US President Joe Biden visited the Middle East, including Israel, the occupied West Bank and Saudi Arabia, in [...]
Mehran Haghirian 
Henrietta Toivanen | 27 July 2022
The regional diplomacy taking place in the Persian Gulf must not be dismissed Donald Trump’s trip to Riyadh in May 2017 kickstarted the most tension-filled era in the Persian Gulf region. These tensions lasted [...]
Omar Munassar | 20 July 2022
President Biden's Trip to the Region and its Impact on Yemen Despite once referring to Saudi Arabia as a “pariah,” United States (US) President Joe Biden recently found himself forced to visit the country [...]
Larbi Sadiki | 18 July 2022
Tunisia Decides: A Constitutional Referendum-or a Referendum on Saied? Tunisians and outside observers wait anxiously for 25 July, when President Kais Saied plans to hold a referendum on his new constitution. This 25 July [...]
Mehmet Emin Cengiz | 22 October 2021
Lately, there has been an overt increase in the efforts to legitimize the Syrian regime and reintegrate Bashar Al-Assad into international politics following the fraudulent presidential elections held in Syria in May
Nabeel Odeh | 12 October 2021 | AR | TR
US Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Only the Latest Proof of the Liberal Order’s Decline As the last United States’ soldier left Afghanistan on August 30, the world witnessed one of the latest American foreign policy [...]
Sinan Hatahet | 23 September 2021 | TR
The Future of Assad’s Syria: The Land of the Hopeless Prior to the revolution, the Syrian regime’s extensive authoritarian toolkit combined many functions, including the provision of governmental subsidiaries, employment, universal health and education, [...]
Khaldoun El Charif | 13 September 2021 | AR
Lebanon from August 2015 to October 2019: Attempts to Rehabilitate a Nation Lebanon currently holds among the highest debt to GDP ratio in the world, and a banking sector pressured into collapse, as the [...]
Firat Kimya | 16 August 2021
Will the Arab uprisings end where they started? While it is still too early to present a definitive answer, the prospects for Tunisian democracy do not seem promising. On July 25, Tunisian President Kais Saied dismissed Prime Minister Hichem Mechici, as well as the justice and defense ministers, and suspended parliamentary activities for thirty days which was followed by a curfew to prevent people from going to the streets to protest. Even though Saied used the pretext of the government’s growing inability to address the economic hardships
