A New War on Terror?
Just when the threat of Islamist terrorism seemed to be successfully suppressed, the actions of Breivik bring awareness of the evil engendered by other extremist ideologies. When a Muslim terrorist...
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....
Kurdish Cover Strategy in the Manbij Offensive and the fight for a united Rojava
Since the end of May 2016, Syrian Democratic Forces have started offensive to liberate the city of Manbij from the “Islamic State” militants and unite all the territories of the...
Brexit: Implications for Counter-terrorism
Brexit will have negative consequences for counter-terrorism in the UK and in the EU. The UK will lose the possibility of enjoying the advantages the EU provides in this field...
Iraq: The Strategic Lessons of Chilcot
“The danger is, as ever with these things, unintended consequences” Prime Minister Tony Blair, 2002 It is 12 volumes and 2.6 million words in length and took 7 years to...
Brussels attacks: why do family members commit terrorism together?
It appears to be increasingly common that terrorist attacks not of the lone-wolf variety involve members of the same family. Some of them, like the San Bernardino attack last December,...
Repairing the Policy-Making Processes of the United States: The First Step in Improving Its Defense
Former US Department of Defense (DOD) Secretary Robert Gates explained on the January 21, 2016 Business Insider website that our military’s biggest weakness is sequestration, compounded by unpredictability in the...
Paris Bombing (13 November 2015) and Western “Terrorism” Policy
The bombing that took place in Paris with many casualties was a human tragedy and a political disaster for Western anti-terrorism policy. A day before ISIS suicide bombers in Paris,...
A New Wave of Turkey’s Return to the Arc of Crisis
Turkey’s relationship with the Middle East and North Africa has been quite controversial since the very proclamation of the Republic due to the new elite’s reservations about establishing close contact...
What the T-14 can tell NATO about a resurgent Russia
What the T-14 can tell NATO about a resurgent Russia The piece of advice Bismark accorded to the new German general staff after unification in 1871, “Russia is never as...
Islamic State, Afghanistan and Pakistan!!
The Baqiya wa Tatamaddad (remaining and expanding) strategic motivations of the Islamic State have created a commotion that needs to be examined objectively, particularly reports related to the terror organization’s recruitment...
Gendered (In)Securities: Refugee Camps in Southeastern Turkey
By Dr. Selin Akyüz* and Dr. Bezen Balamir Coşkun** Abstract Academic literature on security and securitization has been criticized for neglecting the significance of gender as a dimension of security....
Has China Made Its First Big Military Sale In Central Asia?
China has reportedly provided both Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan with sophisticated air defense systems, which would represent the largest Chinese military equipment deal thus far in Central Asia. Reportedly, China has...
The Gangs of Bougainville: Seven Men, Guns and a Copper Mine
It will be difficult to dispute that the international media determines which conflicts the world follows. Certain armed conflicts (mainly those which involve US or European interests), in the opinion...
Buddhism and Conflict Transformation: Philosophical and Conceptual Expansion Of The Nature Of Human
Since the1990’s peace research has witnessed the rise of conflict transformation as one of its key ideas. This paper explores how Buddhism can contribute to conflict transformation by examining how...