By Mehmet Emre Öztürk Shinzo Abe was giant capable the political landscape from behind the curtain His death following an assassination seems prone to change political balances in both domestic and foreign affairs. Abe’s death has already changed the political dynamics within the Liberal Democrat Party LDP. It cannot be dismissed that the assassination has shaken the political centers that ...
Russia’s military operation against Ukraine triggered a wave of militarization in many European countries. Increased military spending and investment, discussions on conscription, attempts to join NATO and much more. French President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement on June 13, stating that France and Europe had switched to a “war economy”, can be read as the naming of these latest developments. That is the ...
On February 27, 2022, three days after the eruption of conflict in Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivered a policy statement in the German Parliament. He said “We are living through a watershed era. And that means that the world afterwards will no longer be the same as the world before”. In the Western world, Germany was considered to be ...