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Americas Book Reviews

Book Review: The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment

CESRAN Int.24 March 2021

Julian A. Zelizer The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018, ISBN: 9780691160283, 368 pp., $ 21.05) The calendar showed 10th of...

Book Reviews Politics

Book Review: Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography

CESRAN Int.24 March 2021

Robert Irwin Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018, ISBN: 978-0-691-17466-2, 267 pp., $ 29.95) Ibn Khaldun (Wali al-Din ‘Abd al-Raḥman Ibn Khaldun) who lived...

China and Neighbourhood Turkey and Neighbourhood

China and Turkey: Escaping the Trap of the “Uyghur Issue”

CESRAN Int.24 March 2021

Hrvoje Ćiković* hrvoje.cikovic@mvep.hr The recurrent topic when considering the importance of improving multi-dimensional Turkish-Chinese relations is the complex issue of the Uyghur people, the Turkic and Muslim minority in China's...

Turkey and Neighbourhood

An Overview of Turkish Foreign Policy as 2020 Ends

CESRAN Int.24 March 2021

Dr Emrah Atar* emrah.atar@manchester.ac.uk The balance of the world is changing rapidly, and the ability of medium-sized or developing countries such as Turkey to keep up with this change is...

Americas Turkey and Neighbourhood

US Sanctions on Turkey’s Defense Industry Might Backfire, Here is Why!

CESRAN Int.24 March 202124 March 2021

Dr Ali Bakir* abakir@qu.edu.qa On December 14, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on NATO ally Turkey with the pretext of buying Russia's most advanced air defense system, the S-400. This...

Americas

Interview with Professor Scott Lucas

CESRAN Int.24 March 2021

Dr Ali Onur Özçelik alionur.ozcelik@gmail.com Question: Prof. Scott Lucas, thank you so much for accepting our interview request for the Political Reflection Magazine. It is a privilege for me to...

Europe

The Supremacy of EU Law over German Law: EU Law vs National Law

CESRAN Int.24 March 2021

Dr Sharifullah Dorani* Sharifullah.durrani@cesran.org Introduction This essay is in continuation of my previous two papers published by Political Reflection Magazine. The first paper dealt with how and why the notion...

Russia and Eurasia

The Fall of the Berlin Wall, the Collapse of the USSR and the End of Cold War A Chain of Surprises ‘Too Big’ to Be Predicted

CESRAN Int.24 March 2021

Marco Marsili* info@marcomarsili.it The fall of the Berlin Wall, on the night of 9 November 1989, marked the beginning of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of...

Governance Politics

Civil Society: An Alternative Model

CESRAN Int.24 March 2021

Dr Prasanta Kumar Sahu* sahu.pkjnu2010@gmail.com Introduction The disillusionment with the state in the twentieth century led to the reverse of civil society in democratic theory. Since most states failed to...

Governance

Public Diplomacy in Post Pandemic World Challenges and Perspectives

CESRAN Int.24 March 2021

Rohith Sai Stambamkadi* ifpdindia@gmail.com | director.ifpd@gmail.com Introduction If necessity is the mother of invention, certainly the present crisis mandates to re-conceptualise and re-envisage the practice of Public Diplomacy (PD). Though...

China and Neighbourhood

Setback for India: The China-Pak Economic Corridor

CESRAN Int.24 March 202124 March 2021

Daniyal Talat* Daniyal.talat2013@gmail.com India is a major regional player in South Asia and playing a double role as a close United States ally to counter Chinese influence in the region....

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CESRAN Int. Named again amongst the Top Think Tanks in the World

CESRAN Int.31 January 202131 January 2021

CESRAN International is pleased to announce that it has been named again amongst the world’s best think tanks. The 2020 Global Go To Think Tank Index ranked CESRAN International 75th...