Policy Analysis
Asylum Controversy: The Political Rift between Poland and Hungary Deepens
Hungary’s decision to grant political asylum to former Polish deputy justice minister, Marcin Romanowski, has damaged the historically strong Poland-Hungary partnership. The move, viewed by Poland as a direct affront to its judiciary and governance, has led to heightened diplomatic tensions, including ambassador recalls and discussions of European Commission involvement. This development highlights a growing...
The Importance of Culture in Statecraft
Culture, as defined in Devlet, is “a set of social interactions within an ethnic group”. While other definitions tend to focus on parts of those social interactions and, more often even, the results from those interactions, the devletist definition also encompasses behavioural patterns at the micro and macro levels. Rather than centralising culture around language,...
Palestine Will Not Survive: A Commentary
If one would make an effort to compare news sources on the various clashes between Jews and Arabs on their mutually claimed home soil, we would quickly come to the understanding that the developments between those two parties are merely recurring routine events. First, there is an information shortage on the first strikes. Then mutual...
Human Nature and Politics
Long before Nicolaus Copernicus and Galileo Galilei claimed that the earth is indeed round, Persian scholars, such as Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi and Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni, even went on to study the rotation of our round planet. However, it was the story of Galileo, who was persecuted and then executed, that became...
What Can Russia Do?
The Russo-Ukrainian War has been the most striking development in the year 2022. As the biggest armed conflict since the Syrian War and previously the Iraq War, the ongoing conflict in Ukraine has not only geopolitical but also economic consequences for some related actors. In the second half of 2022, the two sides seem to...
