Shadows and Faces: The little sparks of the upcoming war
This is a movie which can prove that a war scene between two brigades would probably not be more influential than seeing the beginning of war between two next-door neighbours....
Why North Korea is not, and should not be regarded as, a ‘Failed State’
Thousands of miles away from the relative tranquility of the UN Security Council in New York lies a volatile and turbulent nation. A cause of constant international concern, it is...
An Interview with Dr. Jean-Paul Gagnon On Democratic Theory and Politics
Dr. Jean-Paul Gagnon is a social and political philosopher specializing in democratic theory. In the light of recent developments around the world, I interviewed with Dr. Gagnon because of his...
BAKU – “Baku’s Planning: for what and who?”
Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan, has been examined in this volume. Azerbaijan stands at the crossing point of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a resource-rich country and...
Israel : The Risk of a New War with Arab Countries
On the 18th of August an attack launched by military commandos against buses in some Israeli towns north of Eilat in the Negev desert resulted in many victims, including some...
Important Step has been Made in Supply and Transit of the Shah Deniz 2 Gas
Turkey’s government has been affected by the postponement of the signing of a supply and transit deal on the gas from Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz second stage project (SD2). Ankara and...
Putin’s ‘Eurasian Union’: Geopolitical Repositioning
On 24th of September 2011, during the United Russia congress in Moscow Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ended all the speculations on his candidacy for the Presidency of Russia. Putin...
The Arab Spring and Calls for a Turkey-EU Foreign Policy Dialogue
The Arab Spring caught both Turkey and the European Union by surprise and led both actors to review their existing policies towards the Middle East and North Africa. It also...
The End of War? Global Citizenship and Changes to Conflict
This article is concerned with fleshing out a specific argument: that new, contemporary, global citizenship is possible grounds for the prevention of war as it was known in the 20th...
Turkish – Armenian Rapprochement: Renewed Interest?
The international media has shown renewed interest in the revitalization of Turkish-Armenian relations, which has spawned a number of conferences and meetings. It comes as no surprise that during the...
What is so Good About The Sopranos?
This review looks at what is quality television and what makes The Sopranos so successful. ―Quality Television‖ term has started to be used by critics and scholars after 1990s to...
The Missing Leader
Where is Jiang? As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was celebrating its 90th anniversary on July 1, 2011 one of the key things that fixated China Watchers was that former...
Interview with Dr. Alexandros Nafpliotis
Many Greeks believe that the dichotomy between a Greek civil service, which is perceived as slow, well-paid and overstretched and on the other hand of a private sector, which carries...
Conflict in the “South China Sea‟
The dispute in the „South China Sea‟ is, as widely known, a multistate affair. Cook (2011), in an interview with Ian Storey, showed that tensions have been escalating in this...
The Mistral Warship Deal: What’s in for France and Russia?
After two years of negotiations, Russia and France signed a treaty of military cooperation on June 17, 2011 under which two Mistral-class amphibious assault ships, together with their full technological...