The War Over Germany’s Imams
By Paul Hockenos | 02 July 2010 For decades, no one in Germany took much notice of the imported Islamic holy men in their midst. Turkey's Presidency of Religious Affairs sent imams...
Marx Awakes as China Rises
By Walter Russell Mead | 23 June 2010 Most of the headlines that blare at us from newspaper pages and internet sites are noise. Much of the breathless commentary that we get...
Iran Special: Mousavi, Karroubi, and the Strategy of “We Are Still Standing (for the Revolution)”
By Prof. Scott Lucas | 24 June 2010 And so another statement, accompanied by a picture of the two men warmly greeting each other, from Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi. The...
Feminised International Politics: three cases from Latin America
By Dr. Guy Burton | 18 June 2010 What role and impact do women have on politics and international affairs? Nearly a century ago, when suffragettes demanded the vote, a number of...
Turkish Dilemma
By James Traub | 16 June 2010 My son wants to study a non-European language that's going to matter in the future. He has been contemplating Arabic or Hindi. But after the...
Afghanistan Special: New Report on Pakistan’s Intelligence Links with Insurgents (Waldman)
By Prof. Scott Lucas | 14 June 2010 There has been a lot of media furour over the last 48 hours about a new report about the relationship between Pakistan’s Inter Services...
Obama’s National Security Strategy: Israel*
By Prof. Inderjeet Parmar** | 04 June 2010 Without trying to be ironic, President Barack Obama's administration issued a helpful factsheet alongside the NSS, released at the end of May 2010. In...
Israeli banditry on the high seas: Options for the OIC*
By Abdullah al- Ahsan** | 09 June 2010 More than a week has passed since Israeli armed forces butchered a number of peace activists in the Mediterranean who were carrying emergency supplies...
Two Cheers for Multilateralism
By James Traub | 09 June 2010 Let us now praise modest achievements. The U.N. review conference for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty concluded at the end of May with a 28-page document (pdf)...
Turkish Vision of Regional and Global Order: Theoretical Background and Practical Implementation
By Prof. Ahmet Davutoglu | 01 June 2010 Preface We, as members of CESRAN, attended the conference entitled “Turkey’s foreign policy in a changing world” held at the St Antony’s College...
Democratic Opening, Martyrs and Journalism
By Cemil Cengiz | 01 June 2010 The leading political party of Turkey, AKP (Justice and Development Party) has launched a series of solutions to the problems concerning the Kurdish minority in...
Republic of Fear
By Soner Cagaptay | 12 March 2010 Last week's arrests in Turkey of dozens of high-ranking military officers mark the country's latest step toward authoritarianism. Neither Europe nor the United States...
What’s Really Behind Turkey’s Coup Arrests?
Dr. Soner Cagaptay 25 February 2010 For the last several decades, the Turkish military was untouchable; no one dared to criticize the military or its top generals, lest they...
Ankara Seems Favouring Tehran in the Nuke Issue
Mehmet Ali Birand 03/February/2010 I want to have your attention to some other issues today because we have had enough with the usual. Let me share you a matter...
Cry, the Beloved Country: Haiti between Slavery and Imperialism[1]
The long history that ‘binds’ the US and Haiti together! Bülent Gökay[2] Tens of thousands of people in the Haitian capital city of Port-au-Prince are dead and hundreds...