Basheer Nafi | 23 December 2015
Turkey's past tussles with Russia offer no guarantee of similar outcomes today, while geopolitics, rather than history, also holds lessons for Egypt
Mohammad Affan | 23 December 2015
The first Egyptian parliamentary elections since the military coup were conducted between October 17th and December 2nd this year. Although many observers have underestimated this election and its political significance, it nonetheless offers important insights into the nature of the evolving authoritarian regime in Egypt and clues as to the future of its democratic transformation.
Dimitar Bechev | 18 December 2015
Before the downing of the jet, Turkey failed to reap significant trade benefits from the Western sanctions on Russia.
Galip Dalay | 18 December 2015
Theocratic apocalypse and secular totalitarianism are strange bedfellows when it comes to their visions for political space and active citizenry.
Basheer Nafi | 14 December 2015
It does not seem that Putin has accomplished any of his own objectives
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 06 December 2015
More than 50 intellectuals, experts, activists and politicians gathered Saturday for the launch of the Common Action Forum, a Madrid-based NGO aimed at providing a research and development platform for ideas and practical steps to make political and international systems more fair and equal.
Basheer Nafi | 04 December 2015
It is unlikely that the Syrian people will join the anti-IS war unless they have a state that unites their will
Galip Dalay | 12 November 2015
Beneath the euphoria and much vaunted hype of Kurdish unity as a result of the Kurdish fight against ISIS, the seeds of discord and dangerous rivalry have been planted. This rivalry, which is reminiscent of the old bloody and perilous rivalries in Kurdish politics, is taking place along two axes: on the regional setting between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Kurdistan Worker Party (PKK), and within the context of the KRG between the KDP and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).
Galip Dalay | 12 November 2015
Turkey’s ideology and state identity is an amalgamation of secularism, Turkish nationalism and a Western orientation
