ABSTRACT This commentary examines Ankara’s ‘safe zones’ in Northern Syria, as well as elaborating on whether creating safe zones in response to the...

Climate change has recently emerged as a major factor informing people’s decision to migrate and has increased the urgency of traditional reasons...

This paper takes a cursory and insightful examination of the socio-economic implications of the illegal migration to and from Libya. It aims to...

Kerala, the southernmost state in India, much researched for its high standard of living and a model of development, largely dependent on...

Today, soft power plays an important role in advancing states’ foreign policy goals. As one of the world’s emerging economic powers, Turkey pays...

Turkish-African relations have consistently exhibited strong growth since Ankara declared 2005 as ‘the year of Africa.’ Turkey’s growing economic,...

The commentary argues the Saudi-Qatari tensions lie in conflicting perspectives about the role of political Islam within the fabric of both states...

President Macron did decide to withdraw French troops from the Sahel last summer, leaving only special forces based in north Mali, he stated that...

Sudan, an African-Arab country, has in recent years been witnessing the political transformation process of the revolution-coup spiral. The...

In the last century, the importance of foreign trade, particularly net exports of goods and services, in achieving balanced and high-quality...

Following the Islamic Revolution, a number of leaders have served as the highest elected official of Iran, with the winner of the last presidential...

Israeli authorities have committed a wide range of human rights violations, including direct violence, land annexation and settlement building,...

The Palestinian tragedy is not simply a matter of one nation-state suppressing another nation that has been deprived of its legitimate right to...

In this commentary, I deal with how the governing conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) managed successfully to fundamentally reshape the...

While communal violence has been an ongoing and unfortunate reality for post-colonial and post-partition India, there’s no sidestepping the fact...

The commentary looks at the stance of France on the Second Karabakh war between Armenia and Azerbaijan and subsequently the Russian-brokered...

The rise of far-right parties in Europe and harsh propaganda against immigrants and Muslims are primary sources for the development of anti-Islam...

This commentary sheds light on some of the most creative online campaigns which have been launched to counter Islamophobia and overcome the...

Three-and-a-half-years into the crisis that struck the heart of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the 41st Gulf Summit, held on January 5, 2021,...

President Donald Trump’s attempted coup and insurrection’s political effects are set to continue in the future because the enabling conditions have...

This paper aims to forecast the route that Joe Biden, will take in his foreign policy toward the Eastern Mediterranean, by trying to analyze the...

The Eastern Mediterranean region is said to host five percent of the world’s known natural gas reserves. That stimulates tension when coupled with...

The Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict resolution process had experienced insurmountable deadlock due to the failure of the peace negotiations brokered by...

In this commentary, we advocate for a comprehensive framework to address the political, economic, and social challenges facing Libya. The proposal...