Turkey is expanding its strategic presence in the Indian Ocean Region through agreements with Somalia, involvement in regional disputes, and defense industry expansion. This growing influence, coupled with China’s presence, poses complex challenges for India, potentially limiting its regional policy space and requiring a recalibration of its Indian Ocean strategy.
The historical and political issues between Turkey and Armenia have been a major source of tension since the early 20th century. The events of 1915 remain one of the biggest obstacles to relations between the two countries, and in addition, Turkey's closure of its borders with Armenia and the lack of diplomatic relations have created a lasting status quo.
Meta-analysis is the systematic summarisation of a group of studies on a particular topic with the help of statistical methods (Paul & Barari, 2021, p. 1099). Meta-analysis, which is a systematic summarisation of individual studies on a particular subject with the help of statistical methods, is seen as a detailed literature review method in the most basic sense.
This article highlights the strengthening ties between Turkey and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, driven by economic diversification and regional de-escalation. Turkey's growing trade, investment, and defense cooperation with Gulf nations face challenges from local defense industries and regional geopolitics, including its relations with Iran and the U.S. While cooperation is likely to expand, it may remain largely transactional in the shifting regional context.
No matter how much the dynamism of the Syrian Civil War that started in 2011 has diminished, its economic, political and social effects for Turkey are still not removed, and in particular, it brings with it various risks that are increasing day by day. In addition, with the Taliban taking control of Afghanistan in 2020, the Iran-backed migration wave threatens Turkey's demographic structure.
This article discusses how Iraq's once abundant and balanced climate, characterized by plentiful rainfall, snowmelt, and thriving ecosystems like palm forests and marshes, has deteriorated due to global warming and dam construction. These changes have led to increased drought, desertification, and storms, creating new tensions in the Middle East and highlighting the need for regional cooperation to address these environmental challenges.
This article discusses how Iraq's once abundant and balanced climate, characterized by plentiful rainfall, snowmelt, and thriving ecosystems like palm forests and marshes, has deteriorated due to global warming and dam construction. These changes have led to increased drought, desertification, and storms, creating new tensions in the Middle East and highlighting the need for regional cooperation to address these environmental challenges.
The world is going through testing times. Global challenges are everywhere. Poverty is persistent. Income inequality is widespread. Environmental degradation is stinging. Migration and security concerns are rampant. Global warming is unabated. We are all experiencing that sinking feeling. The old world is going down. It is however taking such a long time for it to be buried once and for all. This is mainly due to the absence of a rising “brave new world”.
Since 2000, when Vladimir Putin came to power as President of Russia, Moscow has begun to use a complex ecosystem of information, disinformation and misinformation as a global tool that it has placed at the centre of its national security strategy. This ecosystem played an important role in helping the Kremlin achieve its strategic objectives during critical periods, such as Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the launch of a large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
The United Nations Security Council, as the primary body responsible for maintaining international peace and security, has faced challenges in recent years due to geopolitical divisions, structural defiencies, and the misuse of veto power by permanent members. Efforts to reform the Security Council have been hindered by procedural hurdles, divergent member state positions, and uncertainties over potential enhancements.
The island of Cyprus has had an important geopolitical and cultural position throughout history and has been under the influence of different civilizations. However, in the second half of the 20th century, the fate of the island was shaped as one of the intersection points of international politics. Especially since the 1950s, the Cyprus issue has deeply affected the dynamics of relations between Turkey and the Soviet Union, one of the important actors of the Cold War period.
The book War in the Gardens of Babylon. Middle East after the Iraqi War published in 2004 by TASAM – Turkish Asian Center for Strategic Studies – edited by Bülent ARAS, is a collection of different perspectives on a number of serious Middle Eastern problems. Bülent Aras compiled articles of outstanding authors explaining the aftermath of September 11 terror attacks and Iraqi War.
The eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf region remain an extremely turbulent and unstable neighborhood, where a “Hobbesian“ security environment prevails. There is a general failure of governance and a long list of frequently interacting – and in some cases interconnected – security problems, including several protracted conflicts (1). However, there have been notable exceptions where regional powers have strengthened, and new actors have emerged, driven primarily by economic motivations.
The 2024 U.S. Arctic Strategy is a comprehensive document aimed at safeguarding U.S. security and defense interests in the Arctic region. The Department of Defense (DoD) is guided by this strategy to ensure that the Arctic remains a stable region, secure the U.S. homeland, and protect vital national interests.
The ongoing political struggle in the African Sahel pushed France to withdraw its military special forces from Central Africa, Burkina Faso, Mali, and lately in Niger, a geopolitical setback for Paris. Following the military coup against ousted President Mohammed Bazoum last summer is the consequence of recent Paris’s failed African Sahel strategy and West Africa foreign policy at large.
Russia backed separatists fighting against the Ukrainian army in the war that started in 2014 and annexed Crimea from Ukraine. On 24 February 2022, Russia escalated this war and invaded Ukraine. This was the most devastating attack on a European country since World War II. Türkiye as a neighbouring country has made the “most intense efforts“ to end the war through talks “based on international law.“ Türkiye’s not anti-Russian but pro-Ukrainian stance allowed her to maintain a delicate balance.
Although there is no clear definition of education security, China and Türkiye have explored this issue in the process of educational modernization consciously or unconsciously. Typically, in Türkiye, religious and moral education has become a compulsory subject after a long period of debate and adjustment, while in China, the connotation of moral education has expanded and the ideological and political education has developed.
The World is changing, under the pressing resurgence of strategic hypercompetition and growing geopolitical crisis. New threats are constantly emerging and old ones are resolutely coming back from the past, driven by new technological integration. The current conflict in Ukraine reminds us of how hybrid strategies do not exclude high intensity conflicts from their spectrum but include them as an extreme and integrated element of an irregular and blurred continuum of competition.
Türkiye's initiative called "Asia Anew," declared in 2019 to re-establish stronger ties with the Asian continent, which has ancient connections and has become the economic and geopolitical center of the world in the 21st century by hosting rising global powers, is a reflection of an entrepreneurial foreign policy concept that necessitates innovation.
Despite a strong historical and cultural background, the relations between Türkiye and the Middle East, or more narrowly, Türkiye and the Gulf Countries, where strategic dialogue is still evolving, need to transform from a fragile axis into a cooperation axis that adapts to new balances, roles, and alliances. When viewed with vision and sagacity, this has been tested in various crises that the spirit of history and time has reminded us of for a long time.
Concerns should be taken into account about how comprehensive international military strategies contribute to regional security crises on the continent of Africa. There are views suggesting that Africa's inability to properly strengthen its military capacity due to existing problems in both the industry in general and the defense industry in particular creates a ground for overly interventionist and neo-colonial tendencies.
With the rapid advancement of technology and the widespread adoption of digital transformation processes, the importance and complexity of cyberspace are increasing. In this new technopolitical cyberspace, Turkey's role and strategic position are becoming increasingly prominent. Turkey is developing itself in areas such as artificial intelligence, deepfakes, and cybersecurity and using these technologies in line with its strategic interests.
Humanity lives on rising or falling land masses (lithosphere) in the middle of the water sphere that makes up 72% of the Earth's surface, shaped by various terrestrial dynamics. The land masses forming the natural habitat of humanity constitute only a small part of the Earth's surface. The fundamental commonality of all these land masses is that they each have the nature of an "island." The size of islands varies. Some islands are continental, hosting multiple states and nations.
The world is going through a critical phase, where boundaries are being pushed excessively in almost every aspect. Various social and political structures such as family, society, and the state, including the individuals themselves, are facing a profound security crisis, both in terms of mind and body.
With all its co-events, the Istanbul Security Conference, to be held for the tenth time this year, will be organized on November 21-22, 2024, with global participation under the main theme of "Technopolitics New World: Security of Security - Mind, Generation, Family, Faith, and State Security" by TASAM National Defense and Security Institute (MSGE)
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