The recent incidence of war in the Caucasus has shown that, when facing deep domestic troubles, Russia and Turkey demonstrate strikingly different patterns of international behavior. While Russia has become…
Because of a perceived existential threat to the Turkish state, the teaching of any language other than Turkish in the formal education system has historically been forbidden through…
Years after the fall of the Islamic State hundreds of foreign terror fighters and their families remain detained in northeastern Syria. While the question of whether…
Since 2017, China has waged a repressive campaign against Uyghurs in an effort to destroy their ways of life. This essay considers compelled silence and compelled sound as a byproduct…
While the world struggles to break the back of a raging pandemic, regional conflicts of biblical proportion fueled largely by war and gruesome persecution have been quietly destroying no…
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen an escalation in tensions across the Taiwan Strait. Although the foundational aspects of the status quo remain intact, the pandemic has weakened them across the…
President-elect Biden and his foreign policy team have been mulling over US policy toward Iran for the past few months, and they will continue to do so. While much has…
The current state of the Internet parallels the call found in The Federalist Papers to reject authoritarianism by championing an open exchange among diverse peoples and regions. This analysis defends…
Turkey-Greece bilateral relations exemplify a stereotypical security dilemma. Since the discovery of hydrocarbon resources in the eastern Mediterranean, the bilateral tensions between Turkey and Greece have been exacerbated through enhanced…
Despite limited numerical strength, al Qaeda exercises sufficient leverage over contending Taliban factions and continues to cultivate an enduring interest in attacking U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan. To break the al…
