Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Türkiye’s post-Cold War policy in the Black Sea, based on the vision of a Russian-Turkish duopoly of power, has lapsed. In this less predictable and more unstable environment, Türkiye will continue to pursue its balancing act between Russia and the West.
If Israel and Iran enter into conflict over Tehran’s nuclear program, one of the main losers may be Moscow.
Join us as Carnegie’s Matt Duss welcomes Agathe Demarais to talk about this important new book, the strategies states and firms use to evade sanctions, and how sanctions can even push states at odds with the United States closer together—or, increasingly, to Russia and China.
Karim Sadjadpour, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace senior fellow, joins Morning Joe to discuss how resistance to Iran’s mandatory hijab law has spread across the country.
The immense suffering and loss Turkey experienced as a result of the February 6 earthquakes led its neighbours to put aside deep-rooted disagreements and historic grudges to offer support and solidarity.
Without a political horizon and a set of mutually reinforcing commitments monitored by an external party, the chances that this will hold are very slim.
Turkey has been here before. The magnitude 7.6 earthquake that struck Turkey in 1999 exposed the ineffectiveness of the state and is generally viewed as the prelude to the political shock that brought Erdogan’s AKP to power in 2002. Maybe history will repeat.
But as Israel approaches its 75th independence day in May, the identity of the country and the borders that define it remain very much unsettled. This year may well hold both promise and peril for a country that has experienced more than its share of both.
Ahead of the EU-led donors’ conference, the political ambitions of Syrian and Turkish leaders extend far beyond humanitarian aid. Western governments must tread a fine line between human solidarity and rough politics.
The political shock of a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in 1999 brought the AKP to power. The current government’s mishandling of this earthquake may now lead to Erdogan’s downfall in the elections anticipated later this year.