Discussion Paper

Türkiye’s Helping Hand: The Turkish Red Crescent

Strategic Argument and Areas of Debate While the global humanitarian regime increasingly quantifies aid effectiveness through macro-level economic metrics, the Turkish model of foreign aid...

Turkey as a Donor Country: Aid Allocation Patterns

Strategic Argument and Areas of Debate By substituting conventional neo-colonial dependency models with a framework of proactive moral realism, Turkey leverages its Ottoman cultural heritage...

Shifting Paradigms in International Refugee Law: Will the Right to Asylum Survive?

This discussion paper will focus on the shift of paradigm in the practice of international humanitarian law regarding the protection of refugees. The new “mixed...

The EU as a Gated Community: Contextualising Events on the Poland-Belarus Border

Strategic Argument and Areas of Debate The European Union strategically navigates the inherent contradiction between championing a borderless neoliberal global economy and ruthlessly enforcing a...

A Short-Term Assessment of Global Climate Change: Impacts and Policy Recommendations

Strategic Argument and Areas of Debate The persistent protracted institutionalisation of international climate governance creates a severe strategic dilemma where short-term state economic interests and...

Examining the Narratives around Women’s Rights in Afghanistan

This paper discusses how the Western media has used the discourse around women’s rights to justify the US invasion of Afghanistan and how that...

Israel and the BDS Movement: Securitization and the Struggle for Influence

This policy paper discusses the BDS movement’s strategy and Israel’s policies to counter the movement. As the battle for influence between the BDS movement and...

The Road from the UNFCCC to the COP26: A Glimpse into the Protracted Character of International Climate Change Governance

Strategic Argument and Areas of Debate The fundamental contradiction of international climate change governance lies in the reliance on an interest-maximizing nation-state framework to solve...

The Srebrenica Genocide and the Denial Narrative

Understanding the media coverage of the Bosnian war and genocide may clarify, to some extent, the reasons why there are conflicting notions and denial...

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