By Yıldıran Acar, Political Scientist Changes in international politics do not always begin with major agreements or historic declarations by world leaders. Sometimes a single statement is enough to challenge the assumptions behind a policy that had previously seemed unquestionable. Recent statements from Lithuania and Kazakhstan, in my view, are signs of such a period. In Lithuania, discussions over the ...
The threat of a global war… It is no longer hidden from view. Everyone is talking, writing and debating about what is approaching. Every other day, Trump threatens to wipe Iranian civilization off the face of the earth. The Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, through which roughly 30 percent of the world’s oil trade passes, have been ...
No holding deal between the US and Iran, the war in Ukraine facing expansion and continuing crises in Europe: The very basis of a 500-year-old order are being shaken, with uncertainty ahead. The old order has collapsed, and a new one has yet to be built. The tremors continue. No deal holds between Iran and the US The agreement between ...