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
Hamidreza Azizi | 17 June 2022
Russia’s need to focus on the war in Ukraine is likely to lead to a period of closer military coordination, if not cooperation, between Iran and Russia in Syria. In a long-term perspective
Mehmet Alaca 
Bekir Aydogan | 17 June 2022
After Lebanese Elections: Another loss for Iran? what stands next for lebanon after key elections Suffering a deep economic crisis with 80 percent of its population living below the poverty line, only 41 percent [...]
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
Jonathan Fenton-Harvey | 07 June 2022
As influential regional powers with substantial energy links to the world, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been forced to adapt to an increasingly multipolar world, one where the United States (US) is perceived as facing declining influence vis-a-vis China and Russia
M. Nurullah Gulec 
Fatih Kırşanlı | 31 May 2022
Rampant sectarianism, external intervention, corrupt politics, and the legacy of a devastating civil war have all contributed to generating severe political, social, and economic vulnerabilities in Lebanon.
Mohammed Sinan Siyech | 27 May 2022
Yemen has been roiled by conflict since 2014 when the Houthis, an Islamist movement that emerged from Northern Yemen in the 1990s, led protests against the then president Abdur Rabi Hadi Mansour. The protests were motivated by the rising fuel and food prices as well as the unstable administration that had just replaced long time president Abdullah Ali Saleh due to the corruption during his tenure
Kamaran Palani 
Khogir W. Mohammed | 12 May 2022
Despite seven months passing from its early parliamentary elections, Iraq has yet to see a new cabinet. The country is witnessing yet another political quagmire that seems to have mired all the main powers in the country
Ömer Özkizilcik | 05 May 2022
How Turkey's anti-PKK Operations Moved from Southeast Turkey to Iraq: Context, Outcome, and Role of the KRG For a brief period from 2013 to 2014, it seemed that Turkey and the Kurdish militant group [...]
