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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...

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

The world is more fractured than it was even a few years ago, and dollar dominance is slipping. So what does everyone own instead? China is pushing for international use of its yuan… and you can see a flicker of it in the payments data. But it is not a...
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The Benevolent State: A Return to the ‘Common Home’

The Common Home-Beyt’ül Millet, embodies the ideal of our shared humanity. And as a great whole, in the sense of the widest borders of the Seljuk and Ottoman empires, the summary of the common values and principles of the shared home of ‘this country’ and, in the sense of everyone...
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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 collapsing. We talked to heterodox economist Ha-Joon Chang to understand dying dogmas and emerging alternatives....
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2026 Gibraltar Agreement: Can Spain Erode British Sovereignty?

Just across the Strait, Madrid also faces Moroccan claims to the exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, plus a string of Mediterranean islets and a Lilliputian peninsula: the Chafarinas, Alhucemas, Perejil/Leila and Alboran islands, as well as the Peñon de Vélez de la Gomera. While Spain rejects the premise of any...
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Thinking China Through “Order” – III

The Chinese, who emerged defeated from the Opium Wars, in which calling the British 夷 = yi had been prohibited, will themselves no longer be called “barbarians.” It is precisely international law that produces this belief, and international “order” is the “order” that serves to sustain it....
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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
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
We became the late 18th Century British. What now?
As James Wilson noted in a 1774 pamphlet, the obedience owed to the king had followed from his protection; without
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
Ideology: What Is It, Why Have It?
Ideology: What Is It, Why Have It?
1922 – 1942 – 1992: The Three American Food Aid Efforts That Saved Russia
It is as if, far from being enemies, America and Russia were acting as rivals dividing up the world—or at
Should BRICS+ Lead the Global South?
Leadership of the Global South has gradually declined since the 1980s. Many hope BRICS+ will fill the vacuum, but its
A Taiwan Crisis Is Coming—and Xi May Not Wait
There are steps the US should be taking to prepare. Trump should conclude a planned $14 billion arms sale to
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

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...

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,...

Neuroscience and Paul Ricoeur’s Challenge

Neuroscience operates from a third-person perspective. It looks at the...

Silent Disaster In Sudan: Who Will Be Held Accountable?

The Sudanese are not expecting a miracle from the world....

Peter Thiel’s ‘Dialog’ network was super-secret. A data leak changed that

“It’s just wild to me how this once again shows...

What’s the role of the G7 in a G-Zero world?

The biggest factor in deciding the G7’s future may not...

Over 160 Years After Abolition, Anti-Black Racism Still Structures US Economy

Scholars Michele Holder and Jeannette Wicks-Lim share their analysis of...

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