Janna Abouelkhair | 08 July 2025
Israel has been ramping up its propaganda expenditure as a form of soft power. Earlier this year, its Foreign Ministry received an additional $150m allocated to shaping public opinion on Israel.
Ramzy Baroud | 14 April 2025 | AR
The United States’ approach to foreign policy, both in the Middle East and globally, can be largely understood through a binary framework: states and actors are categorized as either integral to US global security interests or as threats to those interests. This fundamental dichotomy permeates US political discourse, evident in frequent references to the security of Israel, Europe, and the Gulf States. These concerns are consistently rationalized through the prism of US national security.
Abdullah Yasir Atalan | 03 February 2025 | AR
Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office resurrects an “America First” approach at odds with the more multilateral style of his predecessor. Biden emphasized alliances and multilateral solutions during his term, but Trump viewed [...]
M. Nazmul Islam | 27 August 2024 | AR | TR
Since gaining independence from Pakistan in 1971, Bangladesh’s political culture has undergone various stages of transformation. Issues such as political autonomy, language rights, and discrimination were significant from 1947 to 1971. The political environment [...]
Mohammad Saleh Omer | 21 August 2024 | AR
For over a year now, Sudan has been in a tragic situation due to the ongoing war between the Sudanese army, led by General “Burhan,” and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by “Hemedti.”
Taqwa Nedal Abu Kmeil | 13 March 2024
After the war on Gaza, a complex and contentious issue has emerged at the forefront of U.S. foreign policy and domestic politics, the future of American military support to Israel
Taqwa Nedal Abu Kmeil | 17 November 2023 | AR | TR
In political analyses over the past years, an idea has become prevalent regarding the potential change in the composition of the international system and its potential impact, if it occurs, on the Middle East [...]
Mehmet Emin Cengiz | 10 November 2023 | AR | TR
The Arab Spring provided Turkey with a window of opportunity to project power in some Arab countries of the region that were traditionally neglected in Turkish foreign policy. Turkey’s pro-Arab Spring position drove a [...]
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 25 August 2023 | AR | TR
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has paid a visit to Iraq to hold meetings with leading political figures in Baghdad and Erbil. The trade volume, energy-related problems, water flow
Firat Kimya | 07 November 2022 | TR
The recent influx of Ukrainian refugees into European countries invites a reconsideration of the anti-immigrant position adopted by the European far-right. Unlike immigrants from MENA, Afghanistan, and African countries, Ukrainian refugees received a warm welcome from Europe. Despite the declining number of refugees from developing countries
