İbrahim KARATAŞ | 21 June 2022
This research elucidates characteristics of Qatar’s mediation diplomacy, one of the basic pillars by which the small state gains greater influence in regional and world politics. Qatar’s brokerage before the Arab Spring was largely successful and helped it obtain new friends and become known as a reliable partner by conflicting parties
Ömer Özkizilcik | 16 June 2022
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently announced that Turkey will soon launch a new military operation in northern Syria.[i] The announcement followed the debates on Sweden and Finland’s aim to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Turkish decision to block military and civilian flights to and from Syria
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
Mehmet Alaca 
Bekir Aydogan | 18 March 2022
Ethnic and religious minorities are given official quotas both in Iraqi and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) parliaments. While the given quotas are limited to certain numbers, some of the minorities do not have any quotas
Tiziana Corda | 17 March 2022
The wider Eastern Africa region, whose lands stretch from the Red Sea Basin to the Great Lakes area passing through the Horn, is a dynamic, complex, and evolving political space, rife with violent conflicts and humanitarian crises, but also opportunities piquing the interest of many extra-regional powers
Zubir R Ahmed 
Nawzad Abdullah | 21 January 2022
Strategic dialogue between Iraq and the US (United States) came to the conclusion that coalition troops should be withdrawn on 31 December 2021, with the coalition’s mission becoming a purely advisory role
Federico Donelli | 18 January 2022 | AR | TR
This brief analyzes Ethiopia's conflict dynamics and highlights some of its regional and global implications. The Ethiopian military's intervention in the northern region of Tigray in November 2020 has triggered
M. Nurullah Gulec | 20 December 2021
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has a persistent human capital problem which manifests itself in high unemployment and a low share of nationals in the labor force.
Selman Buyukkara | 01 December 2021 | TR
Fifteen years have passed since Hezbollah and the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), which both occupy a central place in Lebanon’s sectarian political system, signed a Memorandum of Understanding and formed the political alliance currently governing Lebanon. These two parties, which were ideologically and politically opposed
Firat Kimya | 16 November 2021
The crisis of democracy in Tunisia continues, as President Kais Saied declared an indefinite suspension of parliament, which he has depicted as a threat to the state. Amidst this crisis, the indecisive attitude of international democratic actors has disappointed many and created a power vacuum for MENA strongmen to extend their political influence on Tunisia
