Omar Ashour | 01 August 2018 | AR | TR
This policy brief seeks to understand the sources of strength of armed non-state actors and to explain why stronger state actors have sustained difficulties in defeating them on the tactical
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 01 August 2018 | AR
A preparatory workshop for the task force “Transformation of Political Islam Movements since the Arab Uprisings” was organized in Istanbul on May 6, 2018. It aimed to find a common ground
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 30 July 2018 | TR
After the protests broke out in the first half of February 2011, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh made several attempts to reduce tension in the society. However, by that time a long-standing conflict
Richard A. Falk | 19 July 2018
In the days before the Turkish elections there were evident clashing fears and hopes mixed with predictions that mirrored these passions and which anticipated some kind of upset of the Erdoğan game plan for the [...]
Jonathan Fenton-Harvey | 18 July 2018
The recent cabinet reshuffle in the British government might mean a foreign policy that shifts even further to the right, with Palestinians and Yemenis bearing the brunt of those decisions. That is, if Theresa May's [...]
Galip Dalay | 18 July 2018
How will Turkey's foreign policy change under the new system? On July 9, Recep Tayyip Erdogan was sworn in as Turkey's first elected president with executive powers. His outright victory in the first round of the June [...]
Zeynep Koc 
Fatih Şemsettin Işık | 07 July 2018
How Turkish democracy is a welcome change for Syrian refugees "Citizenship means participating in the elections in a country and contributing to that country," said Joud Omar, a nine-year-old Syrian girl who has been living [...]
Mustafa Kaymaz | 19 June 2018
The results of the Iraqi general elections of May 12, 2018 caught many analysts by surprise. The Sairoon Alliance of the Sadrist Movement and the Communist Party won 54 of 329 seats. With 47 [...]
Jonathan Fenton-Harvey | 19 June 2018
As the international community drags its feet and consistently fails to find diplomatic solutions to Yemen's conflict, its population is dragged deeper into a humanitarian crisis with no end in sight. After initial diplomatic failure [...]
Rouzbeh Parsi | 07 June 2018 | AR
Donald Trump has exited the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and threatened Iran with economic warfare - the ultimate goal is regime change. Iran is still adhering to the JCPOA, their goal is increased trade with the European Union (EU).
