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The White House Ukraine summit was a humiliation for Europe

Before entertaining Europe’s leaders, Trump called Putin for a catch-up. After they had departed, Trump called the Russian leader again to give him an...

Francis Fukuyama? Let’s Move On!

Although the book has been translated into Turkish as İnsan Ötesi (“Transhuman”), that translation is incorrect. İnsan Ötesi corresponds more closely to transhuman, whereas Fukuyama deliberately uses the term posthuman in the title—precisely because he sees transhumanism as one of the most dangerous ideas in the world. And as our...
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Continental Power, Maritime Power, and the Fight for a New World Order

For Washington, a scenario that leaves it alone and defeated would be a tragic conclusion to the last 80 years. At the end of World War II, it had earned friends across the globe. But that moral capital, gained at great cost, is being squandered. Like Napoleon’s France avant tout,...
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Truth and the Roosting Place of Public Intellectuals

One more point must be added: this “roosting place” is like when Trump, first in Alaska and then at the White House with European leaders lined up before him, boasted of being a peacemaker worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize, while at the same time sending in the National Guard...
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Turkey’s Long Game

Turkey has begun normalizing relations with Armenia, secured its North African front, and prioritized mutually beneficial defense ties with the British, French, and Germans. But that isn’t all. Creating a strong foreign legion component, making mutual defense treaties with protectorates providing the fighting manpower in return for Turkish weaponry and...
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The Spendthrift

Nowadays, talking about and criticizing stinginess has become much easier; what’s truly difficult is to talk about wastefulness and extravagance in a consumer society where consumption defines everything, and the command “The more you consume, the happier you’ll be!” echoes from all sides. I don’t know whether anyone will listen,...
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The Alaska Summit: Putin and Trump’s Vision of Peace

Trump appears less concerned about the prospect of a truncated Ukraine subordinated to Russia. His major concerns seem to lie elsewhere, perhaps in the Nobel Peace Prize he covets. But the United States may have to guarantee the security of Ukraine against future Russian attacks, something that Trump has hinted...
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Writing the History of Lies and Public Intellectualism

These distinctions provide essential reference points for investigating post-truth mechanisms in American politics, as well as for understanding where to look for similar dynamics in the Turkish context. They are not concerns that can be addressed merely by chasing after U.S. foreign policy in the name of public intellectualism....
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China-EU Summit

Half a century after the establishment of relations between China and the EU, and against a backdrop of deteriorating transatlantic relations, the European Union and China held their 25th summit in Beijing. It is worth noting that the summit could not have been held elsewhere, as Chinese President Xi Jinping...
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Long Wave Theory, Globalisation’s End, and the Coming Crises: An Interview With William Jefferies

William Jefferies is Senior Lecturer at SOAS University of London and author of the recently published War and the World Economy: Trade, Tech and Military Conflicts in a De-globalising World. Jefferies sat down with Federico Fuentes, from LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, for this wide-ranging discussion on the usefulness...
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Bringing Human Nature Back In

Liberals need to recognize that while autonomy is a human good, it is not the sole human good that trumps all other ends that people choose. Part of the human experience lies in coming to terms with limitations, both those that apply to us as individuals, and those that are...
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Long Wave Theory, Globalisation’s End, and the Coming Crises: An Interview With William Jefferies

William Jefferies is Senior Lecturer at SOAS University of London and author of the recently published War and the World Economy: Trade, Tech and Military...

Numbers in History: the case of Latin America

History is always hungry for facts and it is precisely these facts that are difficult to establish with the required confidence. To dig up and...

The ‘Reading Crisis’ in Perspective

I am concerned about this collective decline in reading. I worry about what fragmentary, short-form reading online is doing to our ability to evaluate claims...

The Miser

This connection is plainly visible in those who, having chosen...

‘Raising a Child in the Grave’

The cemeteries of the whole world are filled with the...

From Atlanticism to Pacificism

The Atlanticists will undoubtedly cry foul about such a shift...

Andrew Feinstein: ”It’s Military Keynesianism”

Interview with Andrew Feinstein on Germany’s role in the international...

In Israel’s genocide of Gaza we see the face of five centuries of western colonialism

With everything in us, let us push for the agony...

Rethinking the Politics of Money

If independent, technocratic central banks are not conducive to democracy,...

İbrahim Kalin: Great Traditions Begin to Die When They Stop Asking the Right Questions

At the time serving as Presidential Spokesperson and now the...

The Limits of France’s Racial Memory

The paradox is that while Black stories are now the...

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