The only region in the world without a security framework must at long last set about the task of creating one

 

The Middle East is once again the theatre for one of the world’s major crises- this time ...

On May 8 the governments of Italy and Turkey held in Rome their second Summit. Accompanied by the Ministers of Foreign and European Affairs, Interior, Economy, Environment and Finance, Prime Ministers Mario Monti and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reviewed ...

Shortly upon arriving in Ankara, I was informed that Europeans in Turkey often feel like they are in Asia, while Asians often feel like they are in Europe.  As an American who has spent some time in Asia, I can definitively say that, on my visit to ...

At the turn of the new millennium, Turkey’s relations with the neighborhood, once deemed a liability, normalized. Thanks to a series of structural and ideational developments, Ankara entrenched a stakeholder role in its strategic environment. This ...

The reality of regional or sub-regional cooperation has increasingly become a fact of the 21^st century as many nations move towards closer cultural, economic, and political interaction, if not integration, at the regional level. The ...