Mehmet Emin Cengiz | 20 September 2022 | TR
The Turkish-Iranian geopolitical rivalry has been growing increasingly tense as of late. Although the two countries have different political directions, priorities and conflicting interests
Mohammed Sinan Siyech | 24 August 2022
In recent decades, China has fast emerged as a rising regional if not global superpower with its military spending and technological advances among the best in the world. Simultaneously, the nation has also been taking a more aggressive and pro-active foreign policy to establish its presence globally. Amidst these ventures
Mehmet Alaca | 22 August 2022 | TR
Amid Iraq’s months-long ongoing government formation crisis since the 1 October 2021 general elections, the Iraqi parliament has recently passed a law that criminalizes relations with Israel. Although the law at first glance seems to have covered up the political dead-lock and gathered all the rival groups in support of the law, it is in fact in closely related to the both domestic and regional relations surrounding Iraq
Betul Dogan Akkas | 02 August 2022
Biden's fruitless visit to Saudi Arabia and beyond: the elephant in the room remains Last month US President Joe Biden visited the Middle East, including Israel, the occupied West Bank and Saudi Arabia, in [...]
Mehran Haghirian 
Henrietta Toivanen | 27 July 2022
The regional diplomacy taking place in the Persian Gulf must not be dismissed Donald Trump’s trip to Riyadh in May 2017 kickstarted the most tension-filled era in the Persian Gulf region. These tensions lasted [...]
Omar Munassar | 20 July 2022
President Biden's Trip to the Region and its Impact on Yemen Despite once referring to Saudi Arabia as a “pariah,” United States (US) President Joe Biden recently found himself forced to visit the country [...]
Larbi Sadiki | 18 July 2022
Tunisia Decides: A Constitutional Referendum-or a Referendum on Saied? Tunisians and outside observers wait anxiously for 25 July, when President Kais Saied plans to hold a referendum on his new constitution. This 25 July [...]
Mustafa Yetim | 04 July 2022
While Lebanon has long been divided between the 8 March and 14 March blocs since the assassination of Rafiq Hariri, leading Sunni figure and then Lebanese Prime Minister
Zubir R Ahmed | 22 June 2022
Relations between Iran and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) have gone through a number of stages. Before 1991, Iran supported the Iraqi Kurdish struggle against successive Iraqi regimes
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
