Russian Foreign Policy in the Middle East under Putin: Can Bears Walk in the Desert?
Putin saw volatility in the Middle East as an opportunity to expand Russian influence whilst keeping the gaze of the West away from regions with greater strategic importance to Russia.
Review – Debating Humanitarian Intervention: Should We Try to Save Strangers?
The authors tackle the ethical issues surrounding humanitarian intervention and the principles of sovereignty and non-intervention – from two competing standpoints.
Interview – Gary Kent
Secretary of the all-party parliamentary group on the Kurdistan region, Gary Kent, discusses the group, Iraq and the Kurdish independence referendum and its consequences.
Conflict and Migration in the Middle East: Syrian Refugees in Jordan and Lebanon
The Syrian crisis has transformed Middle Eastern migration. New refugee camps has given a new dimension to the debate on the forms of refugee settlement.
To Avoid a Syrian Quagmire: Turkish-American Compromise and Cooperation
Negotiation and compromise between both governments and the SDF are explored as the path forward for the United States, Turkey, and anti-Assad forces.
Turkish-U.S. Strategic Relations and the Syrian Civil War
The U.S. should not neglect Turkey’s security concerns in Syria, while Turkey must be ready to see the Kurdish people play a role in Syria’s political transition.
From Styria to Syria: A Return of a Thirty Years’ War?
In IR debates, an epistemic challenge to the Westernist and the radical Orientalist orientations could come from a clear-eyed reassessment of our past wars.
Interview – Selim Koru
Analyst Selim Koru shares his views on Turkey’s relations with Russia and its Western allies, its approach to Islamic State, the Kurdish PKK and the peace process.
No Longer Fit for Purpose: Syria and the International Normative Architecture
The British-French-American attacks on Syria show the impotence of the UN in checking war crimes by Syria and preventing the illegal use of force by major powers.
Turkish-American Relations and the Kurdish Thorn of Syria
Turkey’s fight against the YPG and capture of Afrin serves as a catalyst for the expansion of Turkish power in Syria and puts poor Turkish-U.S. relations at further risk.
