When Strategy Overrides Solidarity: The Quiet Retreat on Northern Cyprus

In late 2024, a quiet but symbolically charged diplomatic shift appeared imminent: the Organisation of Turkic States (hereinafter: the OTS), a bloc increasingly aligned around cultural kinship and strategic coordination, was expected to extend formal or semi-formal recognition to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (hereinafter: the TRNC). The move would have marked a historic...

Yaba: The Drug That Is Shaping Geopolitics In Southeast Asia

In 2023, a record 190 tons of methamphetamine was seized in Southeast Asia, according to a report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (hereinafter: UNODC). This methamphetamine-based stimulant, known as the “madness drug” or “Nazi speed,” has swept through Southeast Asia like wildfire, leaving a trail of addiction, crime, and political turmoil...

Moral Hazard: Wie Macht, Geld & Moral aus dem Westen den Iran beeinflussen.

Wir leben in einer heterogenen Welt. Die Erde ist Heimat von verschiedensten Nationen und Kulturen. Dennoch werden alle Staaten durch zwei gemeinsame Strukturen miteinander verbunden: Macht und Geld. Jede Zielsetzung von Staaten richtet sich nach einer Mehrung dieser beiden Institutionen. Das Problem dabei ist, dass beide Faktoren relativ sind. Der einzige Weg die Macht oder...

From Europe to Asia: The Global Shift of Power

Very recently, scholars, political professionals, economic actors and the general populations of big and mid-sized economies have observed a certain transition of power between nations and civilisations. Over the past 200 years, the Anglo-Franco-Germanic nations of Central Europe, including the neo-European nations on other continents, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States...

Russia’s Options Before the War in Ukraine

“War is nothing but the continuation of policy with other means”. This famous quote by General Clausewitz is one of the most important quotes in the history of political and military science. He accurately defines war as a tool of policymaking and, therefore, as a contextually embedded form of coordinated behaviour at the societal level....

White, White World –A Racial Perspective on the Founding of Israel

This work is the Bachelor Thesis by our founder Emre Şentürk, submitted in May 2017 at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen. The thesis was submitted within the core module “Thinking the International in Historic Context” as part of the “International Relations/International Organisation” Bachelor programme, and received a passing grade of 3,3/4....