Spirited Away: A Glance at Hayao Miyazaki
Spirited Away (the original title: Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi) is Hayao Miyazaki's animation which was made in Japan in 2001. The movie made a huge success all over the...
The First Ten Years of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)
Ten years after its establishment on June 15, 2001, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), successor to the original Group of Five (Shanghai Five), is still in a state of flux....
An Analysis of Chinese Naval Deployments in International Waters
Our focus here is to try and explore China‟s previous naval deployments so as to gain a sense of this country‟s foreign policy themes when it comes to the navy....
Rare Metals Industry and Pollution: Assessing Chinese Authoritarianism in the 21st Century
While China‟s economic rise is to be commended the CCP elites have been growing concerned about how to properly manage the stark economic gap between rich and poor (Gini coefficient...
CAIRO “Ready to change its fortune…”
Cairo, the capital city of Egypt, who is under strong global impact has been examined in this volume. Egypt is a transcontinental country which is located at the intersection of...
Palestine Refugees in Today’s Middle East
To say that we are witnessing momentous and historic events in the Middle East is to state the obvious. To even the most casual observer, it is clear that developments...
The Mediterranean Climate Change Initiative: Realism or Idealism?
Regional strategic cooperation has the exceptional advantage of bringing together states and policy makers that share common concerns, ponder upon same risks and challenges, and aim at bridging differences in...
Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict in the Scope of Accelerating Iran-Armenian Relations
At present, the international community‟s preoccupation with Middle East Unrest overshadows a new trend in Iranian Armenian political relations affecting the South Caucasus. The officials and former civil servants of...
The Death of Osama Bin Laden: Islamophobia Goes to America
It was a bullet that killed a terrorist and revived a presidency. On the morning of May the second 2011, the world woke up to the breaking news of Osama...
Interview with Prof. Gerd Nonneman
It seems that Bahrain and Libya is occupying a central place on the discussion on Arab insurgency and its causes and possible effect on the Middle East. What do you...
Reintegrating the Taliban after the Death of Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda leader, was killed by US forces in Abbottabad, near Islamabad, Pakistan on 2nd May 2011. Nearly 10 years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks coordinated by al-Qaeda,...
What to Expect from Turkey’s New Secular Leadership
Turkey's opposition Republican People‟s Party (CHP) has been undergoing an important and profound transformation since May 2010, which began with the resignation of Deniz Baykal, the party‟s chairman for more...
The Revolt in North Africa in Global Perspective: How Neoliberal Policies Triggered Widespread Poverty and Unemployment, and Perhaps an Arab “Caracazo‟
In the aftermath, life turned upside down in Tunisia and the fire that Bouaziz lit burned until it engulfed the entire country from town to town. He died an agonising...