Northern Sea Route: A Game Changer for Russia?
Throughout the twentieth century, we see the growing importance of oil to the growth of the global economy. In the unlikely event of the discovery of a major feasible alternative...
Even Among Business Conservatives the Case for a Carbon Tax is Accepted
Taxing carbon has been seen as a bad idea by business and financial conservatives for a long time. But it seems with the Paris global climate agreement on the agenda...
Turkmenistan: What’s Behind Sudden Manat Devaluation?
Turkmenistan rang in the New Year by dramatically devaluing its national currency, the manat, and introducing a steep levy on the price of petrol. The scale of the devaluation –...
What’s The EEU And What Are Its Chances?
Five years ago, Moscow had every reason to feel secure about its neighborhood. Ally Kazakhstan was settling in as the first post-Soviet state to chair the Organization for Security and...
Predictions for 2015
Making predictions or forecasts about a national or the world economy is fraught with failure. There are so many variables to consider and the data available are often inadequate and...
Methodological differences of the PKK, KCK and HDP
Since the PKK was established an illegal, armed organization, it has always been revolutionary in the way it obtained its results regardless of a transformation from separate state to democratic...
The Clash of Powers or The Dawn of a New Era?
“As I have said before, our two nations are trying to do something that has never been done in history, which is to write a new answer to the question...
UNESCO as an Ethno-Political Entrepreneur: The Need for Emancipating LAVASH
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), more specifically the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, has recently decided that lavash is an intangible cultural...
Anatomy of the PKK: Violence and Self-Interest
It might be quite bold to say, but the PKK does not care about anything but the existence of Kurdish cantons in Syria. It cares about this much more than...
The Big Picture in Syria is Bigger Than Any One Group
The Middle East has been persevering not because the leaders of Middle Eastern countries are just and legitimate, but because the people who live there still have hope for the...
Nongovernmental Humanitarianism In Turkey: The Quest For Internationalist Virtue
The last decade has been a golden age in the history of Turkey`s international humanitarian initiatives. Today, Turkey`s humanitarian aid organizations, both state institutions and civil society organizations, operate in...
Ebola and ISIS: Threats Derive from Fear
The threats posed by Ebola and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) might be perceived as enemies of humanity. One of them is a disease and the other...
Austerity, the Hardworking and the Feckless
About two years ago, the current UK finance minister George Osborne commented that ‘hard-working people’ left for work every morning while ‘behind the blinds’ of the house opposite people on...
Religiously Framing Turkey’s Humanitarian and Cultural Diplomacy
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, in explaining the rationale behind the presence of multiple institutions in running Turkey's foreign affairs, articulated that "the multi-faceted foreign policy of Turkey could not be...
Turkey is paying for decades of divisive politics as it fights to end its civil war
When armed conflict becomes a fact of everyday life, and generations grow up knowing nothing else, imagining life in a state of peace is hard work. The fragile state of...