Tag: EU

Interview with Professor Hakan Yavuz on The Torn Republic: Turkey’s Search for Civilizational Identity (Oxford University Press, 2026) 

Your book is organized around four major historical moments: the Early Republic, the Cold War, the Özal period, and Erdoğan’s neo-patrimonial era. How should readers understand the scope and ambition of this book? This book should be read as a major interpretive history of modern Turkey. In that sense, it enters into conversation with two classic works: Bernard Lewis’s The Emergence of Modern Turkey and...

After UNIFIL: A New Watch Over Southern Lebanon

  In Lebanon, the question of who possesses weapons is never merely a security issue. It is also a question of who governs, who protects the country, and who has the authority to decide between war and peace. This is why the approaching end of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, commonly known as UNIFIL, is generating an unusually sensitive debate. The issue is...
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The new US National Security Strategy will clash with reality

  It’s no secret that Donald Trump has a soft spot for Europe. He might not exactly be in love with the European Union (EU), ...

A Pragmatic Reset in EU–Turkey Relations

Turkey and the EU are going through a honeymoon of sorts. Friedrich Merz’s recent trip to Ankara capped a season of renewed engagement between...

The Trump-Putin Charade

Now that Gaza is done and dusted,  Donald Trump appears to be getting ready to settle another war, Ukraine. But do not hold your...

Europe’s New Geometry in the Age of Trump

A hundred days into Donald Trump’s second presidency, the contours of transatlantic relations have shifted dramatically. US foreign policy, once anchored in multilateralism, now...

The Collapse of Türkiye’s Central Asia Policy

  A critical development revealing the current state of Türkiye’s relations with the Turkic Republics of Central Asia must not go unnoticed. According to a BBC...

Europe’s Response to Trump: Time to Grow Up?

Three years ago, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting the largest-scale and deadliest war in Europe since 1945. However, Ukraine’s heroic resistance—bolstered by military and political...