Hassan Ahmadian | 23 November 2020 | AR | TR
Bidens Iran Policy The 2020 U.S. presidential election has been of peculiar importance for Iran. Though Iranian leaders expressed indifference to the results, they also indicated that a change in Washington’s Iran policy would [...]
Furkan Alperen Sonkaya | 27 October 2020
Although Libya’s armed rebellion was successful in toppling down the autocratic regime of Muammar Gaddafi, it failed to secure a peaceful transition of power or maintain stability and unity in the country. The emergence of two rival administrations in 2014, the UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli and the Tobruk administration with the House of Representatives (HoR), paved the way for a multi-actor civil war across the country.
Thembisa Fakude | 19 October 2020
The recent announcement by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain to normalise relation with Israel did not come as a surprise. It has been expected for a long time by observers of the [...]
Omer Aslan | 01 October 2020
The Egyptian Army during the COVID-19 Pandemic Despite the insistence that ‘nothing will ever be the same’ after the COVID-19 pandemic, currently there is more continuity than otherwise in various issues around the world. [...]
Aly El Raggal | 01 September 2020 | AR | TR
Egypt has been withdrawn and pre-occupied with its internal affairs and the after-effects of the revolution, resulting in the destabilization of its internal security by the arms smuggling coming from Libya. In 2014, Egypt [...]
Anton Mardasov | 01 September 2020 | AR | TR
Russia’s strategic agenda in the Eastern Mediterranean is shaped around the same factors that determined Soviet conduct there: the region’s geographic role as a foothold for influencing political and economic events and the trade [...]
Selin Nasi | 01 September 2020 | AR | TR
Escalating political tensions that are sparking fears of a hot conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean go beyond a competition to control energy and natural resources. Instead, the tensions reflect a multilayered, geopolitical power struggle [...]
Sinan Ulgen | 01 September 2020 | AR | TR
German mediation between Turkey and Greece should be considered as a serious diplomatic engagement. Traditionally, the US has acted as a mediator and facilitator in disputes between Ankara and Athens. However, nowadays under the [...]
Mitat Celikpala | 01 September 2020 | AR | TR
The East Med gas has been defined as a positive game-changer for almost last two decades. Those resources are presumed to be newly introduced elements or factors that would change the existing energy equation, distribution, or situation through cooperation in the Mediterranean and even in the Middle East and Europe.
Thembisa Fakude | 28 August 2020
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in Ethiopia continues to create political tensions between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia. The GERD is a $4 billion hydroelectric project on the Blue Nile in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region of Ethiopia about 15 km east of the border from Sudan (1). The construction of the dam started in 2011.
