Energy has been the defining factor in human development and determining factor in the hegemonic structure of world politics. The fundamental role of coal and steam, as key ingredients of the Industrial Revolution, and global control of their trade in the 18th and 19th century by the British Empire led…
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Nagorno-Karabakh conundrum
The speed of the world politics as such that our attentions are diverted every day to a different part of the world, where a new, or sometimes not so-new, conflicts, crises, problems flare up. Most of the time, the world leadership, content with window dressing, fails to address their root…
devamıConfronting the past in Bosnia
It has been more than 20 years since the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, popularly known as the Dayton Accords, were signed at a U.S. Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, in November 1995 under the auspices of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Europe Richard…
devamıThe negotiations between Turkey and the European Union regarding the future of refugees flocking to Europe via Turkey was finalized on March 18, with a reconfirmation of the Joint Action Plan agreed to earlier on Nov. 29, 2015. According to the plan, the two sides aim to step up their…
devamıFollowing the latest news about intensified preparations to launch an operation against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Mosul, it has stepped up its assaults in various parts of Iraq in recent weeks. Most recently last week, it carried out a suicide attack with an explosives-laden…
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