Tag: Syria

A NATO Win for Erdogan  

NATO’s Ankara Summit is over and, as expected, the winner is Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Turkish host has a lot to be happy about.  First, the summit put on display his special relationship to Donald Trump.  Trump made it clear that he showed up at the Bestepe Palace largely thanks to his ties to Erdogan.  In the run-up to the summit but also in Ankara,...

NATO’s Out-of-Area Strategy

As is known, NATO is a military alliance established after the Second World War to protect the military security of the West against communism and Soviet expansionism. Beyond being merely a military alliance, NATO is a war machine that has also assumed the mission of maintaining the West’s political, diplomatic, strategic, and even cultural superiority. In the 1990s, when the Soviet system collapsed and...
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A Social Contract for Syria

  With the end of the Baath regime, Syria has entered a totally new era. However, stability has yet to be achieved among the country’s...

The Collapse of Turkey’s Balance Policy and the Return to “Precious Loneliness”

The year 2024 may be recorded in history as the year when the balance policy, which has formed the backbone of Turkish foreign policy...