Month: March 2014

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Soner Cagaptay Turkey's Kurdish problem, a long and bitter conflict, has taken a vicious new turn in recent weeks as ordinary Kurds and Turks have started fighting in the streets....

Paul Goble  The theft of the sign, “Arbeit Macht Frei,” which hung over the entrance to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz has not only sparked international outrage but also called...