Russia hosted two important gatherings, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and BRICS (the five emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summits on July 8-10, 2015, in the Russian city of Ufa, as the simultaneous holder of the rotating chairmanships of both institutions. The timing of the…

Greece held a referendum on July 5 to decide the future of a country on the brink of economic collapse. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who came to power in January by committing himself to end the austerity measures that have strangulated the country since 2010, while also promising to keep…

Bu yazı 02.07.2015 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. Social movements and popular protests organized around them against government policies have become a part of global politics since the Occupy Wall Street movement. Although the immediate cause differs, they all have similar underlying motivations: The inability of governments to understand the…

Hepinize merhaba. Bugün DigitalTalks Pazar Sohbetleri’nde Kadir Has Üniversitesi Rektörü Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın ile birlikteyiz. Hocam merhaba, pazar günü sohbet davetimi kabul ettiğiniz için teşekkür ederim.İyi pazarlar Ozan. Eğitim çok geniş bir alan. Bugün sizinle daha çok dijitalleşme perspektifinden konuşmak ve değerli yorumlarınızı almak istiyorum. Uzun yıllardır akademik dünyanın…

Since the end of the Cold War, the nature of international conflicts has changed considerably. While there has been a steady decline in interstate warfare, intrastate conflicts have increased in number and ferocity. In some cases, these intrastate conflicts have overstepped the state boundary and became threats to their neighbors…