Russia

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın Habertürk'te Yayınlanan Para Gündem Programı'na Katıldı 07.12.2020

07 Aralık 2020

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın, Para Gündem programında koronavirüs aşısı üzerinden yapılan tartışmaların sosyolojik boyutları, aşıların küresel dağıtımının nasıl olacağı, hükümet ve sendikalar arasındaki asgari ücret pazarlığı, Habertürk'ün RTÜK'e vermiş olduğu ceza, Türk siyasetinde yaşanan son tartışmalar, AB'nin Türkiye ile ilgili görüşeceği yaptırım kararı, Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan'ın Doğu Akdeniz'de devam eden süreçle…

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ODAK Suriye - IV : Rusya ve İran’ın Suriye Politikaları

11 Temmuz 2020

Panorama ile Güvenlik Portalı ortaklığında geliştirilen ve eş zamanlı yayınlanacak olan “Odak Suriye” programının dördüncüsü için sanal ortamda bir araya gelen Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın (Kadir Has Üniversitesi), Doç. Dr. Nihat Ali Özcan (TOBB-ETÜ) ve Dr. Kaan Kutlu Ataç (Mersin Üniversitesi), Suriye’deki son gelişmeleri ve Rusya’nın Suriye politikalarının neler olduğunu…

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Panorama Söyleşileri - Kamuoyu Algıları Çerçevesinde Türk Dış Politikası

29 Haziran 2020

Panorama Söyleşileri kapsamında sanal ortamda bir araya gelen Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın (Kadir Has Üniversitesi), Prof. Dr. Mitat Çelikpala (Kadir Has Üniversitesi), Prof. Dr. Sinem Akgül- Açıkmeşe (Kadir Has Üniversitesi) ve Soli Özel (Kadir Has Üniversitesi) Türk Dış Politikası Kamuoyu Algıları Araştırması 2020 Sonuçları‘nı 24 Haziran 2020 tarihinde düzenledikleri bir Panorama canlı yayında tartıştılar.

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Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın NTV'de Yayınlanan Yakın Plan Programına Konuk Oldu 18.06.2020

18 Haziran 2020

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın, NTV'de yayınlanan Yakın Plan programında, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Heyeti'nin Libya'ya yaptığı ziyareti, Libya'da gelinen son noktayı ve Türkiye'nin gelecekte Libya politikasının ne olacağı, Libya'da çatışma sahasının durumu, Rusya'nın Libya'daki politikalarının neler olacağı ve Hafter sonrası başka bir aktörle yola devam edip etmeyeceği, ABD ve Türkiye'nin Libya'da ortak…

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Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın EKOTÜRK'te Ali Değermenci'nin sunduğu Dünyanın Halleri Programına Konuk Oldu

16 Haziran 2020

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın 16 Haziran 2020 günü salı günü Ali Değermenci'nin sunduğu Dünyanın Halleri programında Doğu Akdeniz'deki son durumu ve münhasır ekonomik bölge tartışmalarını, Rusya'nın Doğu Akdeniz ve Libya'daki faaliyetlerini, NATO'nun Rusya'nın Libya'daki ve Suriye'deki faaliyetlerinden rahatsızlık duyduğu açıklamasını Türkiye'nin Ulusal Mutabakat Hükümeti'yle beraber Libya'daki etkinliğini değerlendirdi.  

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Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın Habertürk'te Yayınlanan Para Gündem Programı'na Konuk Oldu 09.06.2020

09 Haziran 2020

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın, Habertürk'te katıldığı Para Gündem Programı'nda iç siyasette yaşanan siyasi partiler kanunu ve seçim yasalarında değişiklik hazırlıklarını, Ayasofya tartışmalarını ve dış politikada hareketlenen Libya ve Doğu Akdeniz meseleleri ile ABD ile ilişkilerin nereye doğru evrileceği hakkında görüşlerini paylaştı.

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ABD-Türkiye-Rusya Üçgeninde Güvenlik İlişkileri

04 Haziran 2020

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın, UİK ve Güvenlik Portalı tarafından yayınlanan "ABD-Türkiye-Rusya Üçgeninde Güvenlik İlişkileri" başlıklı programda hem Güvenlik Portalı hakkında bilgilendirme yaptı hem de ABD-Türkiye ve Rusya İlişkileri hakkında görüşlerini paylaştı.

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Odak Suriye Programının İkinci Bölümü Yayınlandı

24 Mayıs 2020

Panorama ile Güvenlik Portalı ortaklığında geliştirilen ve eş zamanlı yayınlanacak olan “Odak Suriye” programının ikincisi için 14 Mayıs 2020’de sanal ortamda bir araya gelen Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın (Kadir Has Üniversitesi), Dr. Kaan Kutlu Ataç (Mersin Üniversitesi) ve Oytun Orhan (ORSAM), Suriye’deki son gelişmeleri ve Suriye-Rusya-İran üçgeninde neler olduğunu tartıştılar.

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Deciphering the Turkey-Russia Relationship

11 Mayıs 2020

The relationship between Turkey and Russia has transformed from open hostility during the Cold War to compartmentalization in the 2000s, and competitive cooperation during the last decade. These developments created concern among Turkey’s allies who started wondering if Turkey was changing axis or being lost to Russia. Turkey’s acquisition of…

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Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın Habertürk'te Para Gündem Programına Konuk Oldu 31.10.2019

01 Kasım 2019

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın konuk olduğu Para Gündem programında ABD Temsilciler Meclisi'nin Türkiye'ye karşı almış olduğu tavır üzerinden ABD-Türkiye ilişkilerini, Suriye'de Rusya ile varılan mutabakatın ön şartı olan 150 saatin bitmesinin ardından güvenli bölgenin nasıl kurulacağı gibi meseleler hakkında görüşlerini paylaştı.

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Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın Habertürk Ana Haber Yayınına Konuk Oldu 23.10.2019

24 Ekim 2019

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın, konuk olarak bağlandığı Habertürk Ana Haber'de, Türkiye'nin Barış Pınarı Harekatı'nı takip eden süreçte ABD ve Rusya ile yapmış olduğu anlaşmaları değerlendirdi. Suriye'den yeni bir safhaya geçiliyor mu ve aktörlerin bundan sonraki pozisyonları neler olacak soruları hakkında görüşlerini aktardı.

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Turkey ‘on a balancing act between NATO and Russia’

16 Temmuz 2018

Turkey remains fully committed to NATO in practice, and has no willingness to distance itself from the Alliance, according to international relations expert Prof Mustafa Aydın, who adds that the country at the same time develops good relations with Russia “to balance its relations.” “From the Turkish perspective, there is a growing feeling that Turkish…

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Armenian struggle for change

26 Nisan 2018

The resignation of the newly appointed Armenian Prime Minister  Sargsyan'>Serzh Sargsyan on April 23 after 11 days of mass demonstrations by the public have briefly brought back the sparkle of colored revolutions of the early 2000s to the Caucasus.  The situation could not be more different. The Armenians took to the streets on April 13 to “reject Serzh”…

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Syria at a crossroads

05 Nisan 2018

The Syrian civil war has entered its eight year with no sign of ending soon. On the contrary, the further entanglement of regional and international actors in the conflict hints at a likely continuation of violence. The humanitarian aspect of the civil war has already become the biggest ever crisis…

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Escalation in the spy game

29 Mart 2018

In the highly competitive and globalized atmosphere of international politics, states routinely use human intelligence, as well as technology, to gather information about each other. Although data collection methods and techniques have diversified with the advance of technology, traditional methods of sending spies abroad or recruiting high placed foreign nationals…

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Güney Kafkasya ve Rusya

29 Mart 2018

The situation in the Southern Caucasus, Russia's activities, the role and interests of Turkey, Iran, the European Union and the United States in the region were discussed at the College of Europe in Natolin by Dr. Tracey German from King's College in London, Yana Zabanova from the University of Groningen,…

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Putin reloaded

08 Mart 2018

Hardly anyone notices these days, but Vladimir’s Putin’s Russia is heading towards another presidential election, or more correctly re-election, on March 18. The vote will mark a new era for Russia, not because there is any doubt that current president Putin will comfortably win a fourth term, but because he…

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Messages from Moscow

23 Şubat 2018

International forums that bring policy makers, experts and journalists together have become important platforms in the post-cold war era to deliver political messages and induce debate in a semi-friendly atmosphere. The Munich Security Conference or Davos Economic Forum have become such occasions, and are eagerly attended by policy-makers and analysts.…

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‘Operation Olive Branch’

25 Ocak 2018

Turkey’s long-awaited operation to “eliminate all terrorist elements” in the Afrin district in Syria’s northwest, called “Operation Olive Branch,” started at around 5 p.m. on Jan. 20 with Turkish air forces striking targets across the region. This is Turkey’s fourth military operation in Syria since the start of a civil…

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Trump’s national security strategy

28 Aralık 2017

Starting from his election campaign, United States President Donald Trump has been a controversial politician, drawing attention with his unprecedented statements, actions and tweets. While he is about to complete his first year in office amid constant talk of wrongdoing and possible impeachment, Trump has already demonstrated that he would…

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Putin’s gambit in Syria

30 Kasım 2017

Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Sochi, Russia, on Nov. 22. The trilateral summit was an important juncture in finding a viable political solution for Syria’s six-year civil war, which has claimed nearly half a million lives. Since the early…

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The ‘Iron Silk Road’

09 Kasım 2017

The Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway line went into operation last week with a ceremony at the Port of Baku, attended by the presidents of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The 826-kilometer rail link, also known as the “Iron Silk Road,” added another layer to the existing infrastructure projects between the…

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Quo vadis Turkish foreign policy

27 Temmuz 2017

The Center for Turkish Studies (CTRS) at Kadir Has University has released the results of its annual Public Perceptions on Turkish Foreign Policy survey last week. It was conducted in 26 cities across Turkey with 1,000 people between June 6-30, and shows the public’s perceptions on foreign policy are generally…

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Helmut Kohl’s united Germany and Europe

22 Haziran 2017

Former German Chancellor and statesman Helmut Kohl, the longest-serving postwar Western leader, died at the age of 87 on June 16. Tributes from world leaders showed that Kohl was mostly remembered for his contribution to today’s Germany and European integration. As the architect of the reunification of East and West Germany, he…

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European security in the Trump Era

01 Haziran 2017

The NATO summit in Brussels on May 25, three days after the Manchester suicide bomb attack, was an important gathering not only because it brought together the newly elected Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron and Theresa May with other leaders, but also because they decided to step up NATO’s role in the…

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Security challenges of the internet age

18 Mayıs 2017

Rapid advances in information technologies and the increase in the use of internet has created a very complex system; i.e. the “internet of things” (IoT). It refers to the connectivity of devices like refrigerators through embedded network software, enabling them to interact with the external environment via internet. As a result,…

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The return of nuclear nightmare

04 Mayıs 2017

North Korea’s nuclear testing and missile development program and U.S. opposition to it has recently turned into a credible threat not only to East Asia, but also to international security. As the frequency of missile and nuclear tests by North Korea have increased substantially in recent years, many experts now…

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Back to basics in Turkish foreign policy

27 Nisan 2017

Situated in the middle of a crisis-prone neighborhood, Turkey can hardly ignore developments around itself for long. But that is exactly what has happened, as it has been focused on domestic politics since 2014 with a seemingly constant election cycle. Although the possibility of holding another early election is still being…

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Power struggle in the Black Sea

30 Mart 2017

Since the Russian annexation of Crimean Peninsula in March 2014, the Black Sea has become one of the areas of confrontation between Russia and the West. In response to Russian aggression towards Ukraine, NATO leaders decided in the Wales Summit on Sept. 4-5, 2014 to increase the Alliance’s deterrence capability…

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Türkiye’de muhafazakâr, dindar ve milliyetçi taban büyüyor

01 Mart 2017

Trump’ın ABD başkanlık koltuğuna oturmasıyla başlayan yeni süreçte belirsizlik dönemi halen sürüyor. Henüz seyri tam çizilemeyen Türkiye-ABD ilişkilerini, enerji konusunda öncelikli konu olan ancak tıkanan Kıbrıs görüşmelerini, artan sağ ve sol popülizmin seçimler arifesindeki AB’ye etkilerini, Rusya meselesini, yaklaşan referandum dahil Türk halkının siyasal sosyal eğilimlerini Kadir Has Üniversitesi Rektörü…

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The logjam in Syria and Iraq

23 Şubat 2017

A few days ago, the Iraqi army launched its second offensive in the last six months to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) that has controlled the city and its surroundings for almost three years. Although the first operation by the Iraqi forces, with…

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What’s happening in Ukraine?

16 Şubat 2017

It has been more than three years since Ukrainians gathered at Maidan Square in Kyiv on the night of Nov. 21, 2013, to demand closer integration with Europe and the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych. As the protests spread and Yanukovych refused to sign the Association Agreement with the EU,…

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Trump presidency testing the world

02 Şubat 2017

It has been only two weeks since the inauguration of Donald Trump as the president of the United States, but he has managed to create division and distrust not only among Americans, but also across the world. With his first few acts as president, he already disproved those who thought…

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Good riddance, 2016

29 Aralık 2016

As the year comes to an end, looking back might provide insights for the challenges ahead. 2016 will be remembered as a watershed year in the future for the international system. The unpredictability of change, fear of the unknown and the horrors of unabated violence around the world have stamped…

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Desperation in Syria

08 Aralık 2016

It has been six years since the so-called Arab Spring hit North Africa and the Middle East. The subsequent uprisings that began with popular anti-government protests in several countries for equality, representation, and better life conditions turned into a deadly civil war in Syria, after security forces used excessive force…

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Trump stump in foreign policy

17 Kasım 2016

Following the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president on Nov. 8, debate on his foreign policy priorities have become the trending topic with their repercussions for the United States and beyond. Although he never explained the details of his policy choices throughout the election campaign, his off-the-cuff remarks about…

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Global challenges for the new US president

10 Kasım 2016

After a heated campaign, Americans elected Donald Trump on Nov. 8 as the next president of their country. The result is also important for the international community because of the United States’ global reach. The contest between a Republican businessman and a former Democrat senator and secretary of state presented…

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The internet shutdown

27 Ekim 2016

Millions of people all over the world woke up on Oct. 21 to a direct threat to their lifestyles and work. When they tried to go through their social media accounts first thing in the morning, as most of us do nowadays, they could not manage to connect, as the…

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Russia’s quest for power

20 Ekim 2016

The international system has been evolving ever since the bipolarity of the Cold War ended. As the unipolar U.S. moment was short lived, and none of the international powers has enough capacity to unilaterally dominate its peers, a somewhat multipolar world system is slowly emerging. Under such conditions, Russia, since…

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Restoring NATO’s deterrence

14 Temmuz 2016

The heads of state and government of the 28 NATO member countries gathered in Warsaw on July 8-9, along with Montenegro, whose membership is going to be ratified soon, and 26 partner countries and representatives from several international organizations. The Warsaw Summit was a landmark gathering for NATO due to…

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Progress in fighting against ISIL

23 Haziran 2016

The most recent offensive against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Iraq and Syria has paved the way to retaking several sites held by ISIL for a long time. Last Friday, the Iraqi army and the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), made up of mainly Shia militias,…

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Towards NATO’s Warsaw summit

19 Mayıs 2016

The official activation of NATO’s first land-based ballistic missile defense system in Deveselu, a former air base in southern Romania, on May 12, has added another layer to the already strained relationship between Russia and the West. The security assessments for the eastern and southern flanks of NATO have been…

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The geopolitics of energy resources

14 Nisan 2016

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

07 Nisan 2016

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…

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Towards a new Cold War

18 Şubat 2016

The rapid changes and escalated tension in the Syrian civil war have been occupying international agenda for a very long time. Indeed, it has become a crucial issue for global security with its convoluted social, economic, humanitarian, military, and geostrategic aspects. The complexity of the situation was once again reflected…

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Russia’s new strategic posture

07 Ocak 2016

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the last day of 2015, approving a document that updates and replaces Russia’s existing National Security Strategy (NSS) paper, which had been in force since 2009. The updated strategy paper essentially summarizes Russia’s national interests and defines its strategic priorities for the…

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Hybrid warfare and international security

24 Aralık 2015

The international security agenda and the theoretical ways to study it have expanded tremendously since the end of the Cold War. Once the strict control of the global east-west military ideological rivalry lifted, various new threats and ways to analyze them emerged. These were the issues discussed in a three-day…

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Ignore at your own peril

19 Kasım 2015

The series of coordinated gun attacks and suicide bombings in multiple targets in Paris and Beirut on Nov. 13, 2015, killed at least 170 people and severely wounded several hundred. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility of both attacks in France and Lebanon, once again…

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A quagmire for everyone

12 Kasım 2015

As predicted, Russia started to feel the ugly face of the Syrian quandary. After a flashy entrance, Russian forces are settling in for a long haul and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) affiliates are biting them. The most direct attack, befitting a radical extremist group, came on…

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US ramblings in Syria

15 Ekim 2015

The Russian military build-up and bombing in Syria has added to the already existing tension between Russia and the West since the former’s occupation of Crimea, and has prompted a new confrontation area on NATO’s southeastern flank in addition to difficulties on the eastern flank. Russia’s deliberate violations of Turkish…

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Mind games in Syria

08 Ekim 2015

The civil war in Syria has entered a new phase with the active involvement of Russia. In reality, Russia has been part of the conflict on the margins since the outbreak of the crisis through its support of President Bashar al-Assad, both with its arms supply and diplomatic clout in…

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The Iranian deal

23 Temmuz 2015

After years of thorny negotiations, Iran and the P5+1 countries, consisting of five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany, finally reached an agreement on July 14 to control Iranian nuclear enrichment program. Regardless of the heavy criticism from hardliners on both sides and regional powers, especially Israel, the Joint…

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Quest for a multipolar world order

16 Temmuz 2015

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…

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Electric Yerevan

02 Temmuz 2015

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…

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Sports vs. Politics

18 Haziran 2015

Azerbaijan is currently hosting around 6,000 athletes from 50 countries for the first European Games, a new sports event modeled after the Olympic Games. The games kicked off in Baku on June 12 and will continue until June 28, amid criticisms ranging from the cost of the games to human…

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Geniş Karadeniz Havzasından Uluslararası Sisteme Meydan Okumalar

27 Mayıs 2015

Geniş Karadeniz havzasında yaşanan siyasi istikrarsızlıklar, 1989’da Berlin Duvarı’nın yıkılması ve 1991’de Sovyetler Birliği’nin dağılması ile sona eren Soğuk Savaş’ın ardından uluslararası sistemi zorlayan en ciddi sıkıntıların başında geliyor. Rusya ve Batı’yı (Avrupa Birliği ve ABD) 21. yüzyılda bir kez daha karşı karşıya getiren son Ukrayna krizi ve takip eden…

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NATO Siber Suçları da İçeren Hibrit Tehditleri Değerlendirdi

22 Mayıs 2015

Türkiye’nin ev sahipliğinde 13-14 Mayıs 2015 tarihlerinde Antalya’da gerçekleştirilen NATO Dışişleri Bakanları Zirvesi’ne paralel olarak düzenlenen “NATO Gençlik Zirvesi”ne katılan Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın, NATO üye ülkelerinden toplantıya katılan geleceğin liderleriyle, değişen uluslararası güvenlik gündemi ve NATO’nun söz konusu tehditlerle başa çıkma yöntemleri konusunda görüşlerini paylaştı. NATO Gençlik Zirvesi’nin açılışını…

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A sliding of democracy

09 Nisan 2015

Bu yazı 09.04.2015 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. When the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union dissolved, a new era of democratic expansionism was heralded, as Francis Fukuyama declared the end of history, optimistically assuming human ideological evolution had ended and liberal democracy ultimately triumphed over the authoritarianism of…

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Europe’s dream army

12 Mart 2015

Bu yazı 12.03.2015 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. Amid the debates over whether the Feb. 12, 2015, cease-fire agreement between Ukraine and Russian-supported rebels in the eastern part of the country will hold, and whether the rebels’ next target would be to connect with Russian-occupied Crimea, NATO members including the U.S.,…

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United western front on Ukraine

12 Şubat 2015

Bu yazı 12.02.2015 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. The fighting between government forces and separatists in eastern Ukraine has flared up again despite attempts to ease the tension through a cease-fire agreement, signed in Minsk on Sept. 5, 2014. After a December lull, the separatists renewed their attacks with not-so-hidden…

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Russian matryoshka politics

08 Ocak 2015

Bu yazı 08.01.2015 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a revised version of his country’s military doctrine on Dec. 26, 2014 to replace the document issued by his predecessor Dmitri Medvedev in February 2010. Although some might argue that it was just another official document release…

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Let the energy games start

18 Aralık 2014

Bu yazı 18.12.2014 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. Russian President Vladimir Putin created a sensation when he announced during a visit to Turkey on Dec. 1 that Russia would stop developing the South Stream Gas Project and would instead explore a new pipeline project to transport natural gas to Europe…

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'Enerji merkezi' olma yolunda bir adım daha

05 Aralık 2014

"Rusya'nın, Türkiye üzerinden Avrupa'ya gaz taşımak üzere planladığı yeni boru hattı, Türkiye'yi 'enerji merkezi' olma hayaline bir adım daha yaklaştırır." Kadir Has Üniversitesi Rektörü Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın, bölgeyi yakından ilgilendiren sorunları ve Putin'in Ankara seyahatini Al Jazeera Türk'e değerlendirdi. Bölgede yaşananlar, Ukrayna’daki durum göz önüne alındığında Putin’in ziyareti ne…

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The G-20 war games

20 Kasım 2014

The leaders of the 20 biggest economies of the world gathered in Brisbane, Australia on Nov. 15-16, 2014 for the annual meeting of the Group of Twenty (G-20). Although the intention was to discuss the state of the global economy and ways to expand it, the tension among member states,…

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Re-charging the superpower

06 Kasım 2014

While the U.S.-led coalition was busy bombing the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) forces in Iraq and Syria, a recent probe by the Russian Air Force all over NATO air space and beyond brought back memories of the Cold War and further increased tension between Russia and…

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Keeping NATO relevant

11 Eylül 2014

Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has been trying valiantly to reform itself to remain relevant in the face of ever changing global threats. Enlarged definitions of threat have been adopted without clear boundaries and accordingly NATO has transformed itself from an alliance of collective defense to a collective security…

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Energizing Cyprus

29 Mayıs 2014

Bu yazı 29.05.2014 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. The negotiations to find a fair and equitable solution to the Cyprus problem was resumed on February 11 after a two-year hiatus with a Joint Declaration of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders that provided an outline and main principles of the…

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Do we need a hegemon?

15 Mayıs 2014

Bu yazı 15.05.2014 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. The world systems theory, espoused by Immanuel Wallerstein, identified a number of hegemonic world powers, which had emerged one after the other since the 16th century, to dominate the international system for about a century, then declined and was replaced by another…

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What will become of Ukraine?

08 Mayıs 2014

Bu yazı 08.05.2014 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. Since the outbreak of the latest crisis in Ukraine in late November 2013, the tension has continued to worsen and the division among citizens has grown, pushing the country nearer to civil war with every passing day. Although the country has so far…

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The untenable quadrangle: NATO-US-Russia-Europe

24 Nisan 2014

Bu yazı 24.04.2014 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. Russian annexation of Crimea and the ongoing crisis in Ukraine has heightened security concerns of several countries from Baltic to Eastern Europe and from the Caucasus to the Central Asia. NATO’s inability to prevent violations of territorial integrity of its partners, first in Georgia and…

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While the international system is crumbling

17 Nisan 2014

Bu yazı 17.04.2014 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. The illegal annexation of Crimea and instigation of tension in eastern Ukraine by Russia are rapidly eroding the last vestiges of the international system, created within a hundred years of the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia back in 1648. What is at stake…

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Strateji ve Güvenlik

21 Ekim 2012

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