Poetry & Solidarity: The Making of My Palestine Consciousness
Growing up in Turkey, Burak Elmalı reflects on his earliest encounters with the Palestinian cause through Turkish literature,...
Academic Background
MA
Bogazici University • Political Science and International Relations
Total Contribution: 129
Great Powers, Climate Change, and Global Environmental Responsibilities
Great Powers, Climate Change, and Global Environmental Responsibilities, edited by Robert Falkner and Barry Buzan, is a significant...
Can BRICS Challenge the Western Order?
An enduring quote from Shakespeare’s Hamlet encapsulates a conflictual tension between reality and uncertainty: “We know what we are, but know not...
The Next US Move in the Middle East: A ‘Balancer’ or ‘Pax Americana’?
The Middle East is, once again, the scene of intriguing moves. From a Chinese-brokered Saudi-Iran rapprochement to Assad’s...
Facing the dragon’s fire: Why China is NATO’s new ‘global villain’
The West tries to portray the Asian giant as the root of all evil but the world’s second-largest...
Türkiye’s Masterclass Lesson in Realpolitik
On the eve of the historic NATO summit in Vilnius, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Türkiye, Prime Minister...
The US Narrative of Withdrawal from the Middle East Is a Fallacy
Over the past decade, the narrative about US retrenchment from the Middle East has been gaining currency. The...
Why Srebrenica Must Be Kept on the Top of the Memory
Today is the anniversary of one of the dark pages in modern history. Twenty-eight years ago today, at...
Don’t Expect Too Much from China in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The growing involvement of China in the Middle East continues to raise intriguing questions. It all started with Chinese President...
China in the Gulf: Challenger to America but not yet a contender
Despite a perceived sense of US disinterest in the Middle East amid China’s growing influence, the last chapter...