Author: Political Reflection

by Dr. Mark Meirowitz* As a result of the momentous events confronting the world community and its leadership, there has been a great deal of analysis and reflection on what...

by Dr Rahman Dag* Rise of leftist and rightist populist movements and political parties, the reluctance of international cooperation over climate change, perceived refugee threats in the Western world and...

by Prof. Cenap Çakmak* The coronavirus crisis has in a matter of months paralyzed the interstate system which was working modestly, particularly in certain areas. As students of the IR,...

by Dr Hüsrev Tabak* The cosmopolitan karma. China has recently introduced harsh restrictions on international flights, stepped up its border control measures, and temporarily suspended the foreign nationals’ entrance to...

by Ralitsa Trifonova & Marian Karagyozov If the assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani, the powerful commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, on 3 January 2020,...

Uzbekistan, Central Asia’s most populous nation, gained independence in 1991 and since then pursued a policy of economic self-reliance and sought to balance its diplomatic ties with the West and...

Almost 25 years have passed since Samuel Huntington published his seminal article Democracy´s Third Wave, further expounded in his 1991 the book The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth...