Every 10 November, Türkiye pauses at 09:05 to commemorate the passing of Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Türkiye. Eighty-seven years after his death, his ideas, leadership style and statecraft remain strikingly relevant—not only for Türkiye, but for a world once again drifting into geopolitical turbulence.
Today’s international system is neither fully unipolar nor genuinely multipolar. As Amitav
Acharya aptly puts it, it resembles a multi-room theatre more than a chessboard.
Following the end of the Cold War, Pax Americana established a US-led global order.
Washington set the rules through its political, economic, and military reach, while its allies-often enthusiastically—reinforced this architecture.
The European Union (EU) has structured its migration management in the post-2015 period
largely on a security-centric approach. Following the 2015 refugee crisis, the EU's migration
management strategies have largely focused on border control and externalization policies,
leading to human rights violations and deviations from international protection standards.
Edward Said famously observed that the ‘East’ exists not as a geographical fact but as a constructed image in the Western imagination.
This image continues to permeate the contemporary political discourse.
The following words by Tom Barrack, the US Ambassador to Ankara and Special Representative for Syria, reignited debates over the sociopolitical foundations of Middle Eastern politics:
“There is no such thing as the Middle East. There are tribes and villages in the region...
Army installations within the lower 48 states will have operating nuclear microreactors starting in the fall of 2028 if the Army’s Janus program moves forward on schedule. The addition of nuclear power will diversify the energy sources available on military bases and provide a critical enhancement to their resiliency, the Army says.
We are at the beginning of developments where the Metaverse environment, which brings together the virtual and real worlds, is becoming three-dimensional, and where studies in the field of cyber intelligence will provide intelligence platforms with vastly different functions, potentially revolutionizing our overall perspective on intelligence.
The Turkish Petroleum Corporation’s (TPAO) international subsidiary, Turkish Petroleum Overseas Company (TPOC), will participate in offshore oil and natural gas exploration in Pakistan’s Northern Indus C Offshore Basin located in the Indian Ocean.
Lao Tzu says, “Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Misunderstandings and ill-conceived calculations can push even great powers into situations they never intended to enter. John Bolton—who served as U.S. national security advisor during President Trump’s first term—recently said in a talk at the Harvard Kennedy School that “the United States misunderstood China.“
China’s vision of global hegemony has become a central feature of the 21st-century geopolitics. Russia is often cast as a partner in this project. Both governments argue that a more multipolar and fairer international order is attainable, being less a new construction than a partial restoration of what they claim the global system should be.
Istanbul hosted a highly significant event in the academic field of intelligence studies from October 10 to 12, 2025. The “International Congress on Intelligence Studies,“ organized by the National Intelligence Academy, brought together 250 academics from Turkey and around the world.
Development of domestic technology is an important feature for technological sovereignty. This is particularly the case for Deeptech. Deeptech refers to innovations rooted in breakthrough science and engineering — including quantum computing, advanced materials, robotics, artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and clean-energy technologies.
For the public good, TASAM invites researchers to submit academic articles, analytical essays, and policy briefs that analyze political, economic, security, and societal transformations at global and regional levels, contributing to the national and international academic and policy-making community.
Turkey's ascent as a significant global player has been markedly evident in its strategic
engagement with Africa, particularly in the Horn of Africa. As a rising middle power, Turkey has expanded its influence through a comprehensive approach that includes diplomatic, economic, and military dimensions.
India today finds itself at the intersection of multiple geopolitical currents. Its active engagement in both the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the BRICS group reflects its desire to balance great power politics with the imperatives of economic growth and regional stability. While the SCO and BRICS are often mentioned together as vehicles of the 'non-Western' or 'Global South' agenda, they are distinct in structure, scope, and purpose.
Every war serves as a catalyzer, it accelerates some of economic, social and strategic processes while it inhibits others. Since the collapse of the USSR, Russian – Ukrainian relations were often undefined from both sides and now, the war made the situation durably clear.
This study aims to analyze Turkish military presence in Africa in its new roles as a peace and security provider. Türkiye's military presence in Africa has sparked debates regarding Türkiye's great power status and the underlying lofty ambitions, as well as the potential linkages with other patterns and out-of-area military operations.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping economies, governance, and everyday life. But democratization means more than deployment—it means empowering every citizen, in every language and community, not just elite urban users. Here the access to those who have and those who have not is also a question of avoiding India’s “AI for All” approach illuminates how inclusive AI can democratize power, rather than centralizing it in global tech monopolies ( a form of techno feudalism).
In an age where every decision - operational, strategic, or customer-centric - is influenced by data, Data Governance has emerged as a critical discipline. Organisations worldwide collect, process, and store more information than ever while leveraging advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI to interpret these data streams.
Türkiye is becoming a key defense partner in Africa, offering affordable and effective support, but it must manage ethical and diplomatic challenges to sustain its role
Türkiye's relationship with the African continent has witnessed a notable escalation in recent years, commencing from the early 2000s.
This analysis compares two academic papers discussing various aspects of China’s ascent as a global power. The first study, by Zweig et al. (2020), examines the return of domestic talent to and from China, investigating obstacles encountered by overseas scholars upon re-integrating into domestic institutions.
Nowhere is this more visible than in India’s active engagement with two seemingly divergent platforms: the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD) and BRICS. While QUAD — comprising the United States, Japan, Australia, and India — is viewed as a response to China’s assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific, BRICS — a grouping of now 10 countries with Brazil, Russia, China, and South Africa as the original acronym, which now also includes Indonesia, Ethiopia, Iran, Egypt, and United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Concentration of wealth and income inequality has been another reason for increasing discussion of Neomedievalism. Interruption of major chokepoints, significantly disturbed global trade, has also caused concerns of back-sliding into the pre-globalization land-based era; possibly a form of Neomedievalism. Global trade has been over the last decade shifting more towards on-land and region based trajectories.
This paper delves into details of the arguments surrounding the nomenclature “Sea of
Japan” which has been a source of contention between Japan, South Korea, and North
Korea. Beginning with analyzing the early origins of the nomenclature, the paper includes
studying various surveys of global antiquarian maps and international references to the “Sea
of Japan.
BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) emerged as a significant platform with the ambition of becoming the voice of rising powers in the global system, aiming in particular to highlight the demands of the Global South. However, it is evident that BRICS is still not a fully institutionalized international organization. It lacks a fixed headquarters, a permanent secretary-general, a binding founding charter, or clearly defined decision-making mechanisms
The Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) has emerged as a formidable force influencing the geopolitical and security landscape of Afghanistan and the broader South Asian region. The paper hypothesizes that ISKP’s alliances and rivalries with key stakeholders such as Al- Qaeda, the Haqqani Network, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA).
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