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Why Is Türkiye’s Conservative Community Silent On NATO?

The crux of the matter is this: if the institutional structures of conservative sociology are not going to speak out and express their views...

On Israel’s Systematic Sexualized Violence and the Silence That Enables It

Palestine is not a tragedy without an author. What is being done to Palestinians is targeted, state-sponsored, and deliberate. The rape of Amal ‘Ajlouni’s dignity in front of her children was an order carried out by a soldier who knew exactly what she was doing. The dog trained to rape...
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NATO 3.0: The Ankara Summit and Türkiye’s Role as a Central Country

Ultimately, the Ankara Summit represents a critical juncture at which NATO’s industry-driven reorganization intersects with Türkiye’s transformation from a peripheral country into a central country. The summit is not expected to resolve all existing tensions; rather, its principal function is to establish a roadmap for the next five to ten...
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The Codes of Turkish Foreign Policy

In the period ahead, the current global system dominated by great powers relying on numerical superiority and domination is expected to give way to a new world order shaped by the cooperation of multiple states that form alliances among themselves, seek common solutions to global problems, and unite around the...
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Turkey’s neo-Ottoman ambitions: Erdogan, Hamas, and threats to Israel

Is Turkey truly an appropriate member of the Gaza “Board of Peace?” Is its involvement in Syria genuinely beneficial to America? Is its half-century occupation of Northern Cyprus legal? What type of regional “peace” is Erdogan planning? Is the NATO Summit scheduled to take place in the Turkish capital on...
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Do Muslims Want Sharia Law in the West?

And here is where I see the critique made to Kholwadia as also valid. Not because of the argument made in the quoted articles, which I think is erroneous, but because I believe that original Islamic conceptions of property, liberty, and standing against oppression could help against the challenges that...
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Stop Mourning the Old NATO. Build the New One.

The Ankara Summit should serve as Europe’s graduation ceremony: the moment the continent accepts full responsibility for its own security and asserts itself as the center of gravity not only for its Eastern neighborhood, from Ukraine and Moldova to the Western Balkans and the South Caucasus, but equally for its...
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Is America Truly Becoming a “Zionocracy?”

The move to criminalize any criticism of Israel or the collective behavior of Jewish groups, if pursued aggressively at a national level, would have a devastating impact on the freedom of Americans to speak openly and honestly on issues like war and peace, for example. And of course that it...
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China Targets Japan’s Defence Industry

Export controls signal a new phase in regional rivalry. On Monday, 29 June, China’s Ministry of Commerce added 20 Japanese entities, including its National Institute of Defence Studies and multiple Mitsubishi-affiliated defence contractors, to its export control list in its latest step to stop its move towards re-militarisation....
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The Turkey-Israel Rupture

The realist instinct is not to dismiss the moral content of any of these claims — the Armenian genocide occurred, Turkey’s authoritarian drift is real, Israel’s conduct in Gaza has drawn serious international scrutiny — but to separate the claims from the timing of their deployment, and to resist the...
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NATO 3.0: Alliance or Military-Industrial Investment Fund?

NATO has never been merely a military alliance within the UN-based international order. It has always been an expression of the Western strategic worldview. Today it is becoming something even more complex: a system where security policy, industrial policy, technological power, and capital accumulation increasingly merge. The Ankara summit will...
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Ankara’s Summit of Fractures
In sum, this is the bare conclusion from Ankara: NATO is fractured, Europe is exposed, Trump is transactional to the
Infantino, FIFA and the Meddlesome US President
Absurdly FIFA, while declining to confirm whether any specific discussions had taken place between its various arms and the White
The American System Rejects Europe’s Economic Suicide
For the United States to be wealthy and strong, we must return to an American system that mines, grows, and
The geopolitics of energy storage: Who will control the batteries of the Middle East?
The future balance of power in the Middle East may therefore depend not only on who possesses the largest energy
On Israel’s Systematic Sexualized Violence and the Silence That Enables It
Palestine is not a tragedy without an author. What is being done to Palestinians is targeted, state-sponsored, and deliberate. The
Turkey’s neo-Ottoman ambitions: Erdogan, Hamas, and threats to Israel
Is Turkey truly an appropriate member of the Gaza “Board of Peace?” Is its involvement in Syria genuinely beneficial to
Do Muslims Want Sharia Law in the West?
And here is where I see the critique made to Kholwadia as also valid. Not because of the argument made
Is America Truly Becoming a “Zionocracy?”
The move to criminalize any criticism of Israel or the collective behavior of Jewish groups, if pursued aggressively at a
Why Today’s Tech War Needs Yesterday’s History
The international community is currently steering the boat by feeling the stones at the bottom of the river. It’s not
The Afghanistan Reckoning: Forever Wars and the Costs of Collective Forgetting
Over the past five years, not a single act of terrorism against the United States was carried out by a

The End of the Old Economic Order Is an Opening for the Left

For decades, the rules of the global economy — and the economics discipline — seemed fixed. But now, with Donald Trump’s help, the edifice is...

What Distinguishes History, Story, and Gossip from One Another?

What falls to the lot of human beings is not to possess truth, but to cultivate humility before it; not to consume it, but to...

Are We Back to 1914?

The Coming Storm, as described in Westad’s introduction, is a book in three interlinked parts. The first part is intended to describe the emergence of...

The World’s Gold Is Quietly Leaving London and New York

The world is more fractured than it was even a...

The Benevolent State: A Return to the ‘Common Home’

The Common Home-Beyt’ül Millet, embodies the ideal of our shared...

The End of the Old Economic Order Is an Opening for the Left

For decades, the rules of the global economy — and...

2026 Gibraltar Agreement: Can Spain Erode British Sovereignty?

Just across the Strait, Madrid also faces Moroccan claims to...

Thinking China Through “Order” – III

The Chinese, who emerged defeated from the Opium Wars, in...

What Distinguishes History, Story, and Gossip from One Another?

What falls to the lot of human beings is not...

The Dawn of the Modern Nationalist Age

Whereas Napoleon swept away the old age with brilliant military...

Thinking China Through “Ideography” – II

In that case, is “Chinese writing” truly inherently deconstructive? Certainly,...

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