Articles tagged with: NATO
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Tuesday, 30 Apr, 2013
Turkey became a true multi-party democracy in 1950, and it has been holding free and fair elections ever since. Not counting the four years spent under military leadership following coups d’état, this means the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has effectively run Turkey for nearly a quarter of the country’s democratic history, thus becoming the longest-governing party in the history of the Turkish Republic.
Since coming to power in 2002, the AKP has not only managed the longest stint ...
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Perhaps one of the greatest misperceptions about Anglo-American relations with respect to the Gulf region during the Cold War is that both nations were united by their “special relationship.” The reality is that both nations saw events from completely different points of view on nearly every level. For Britain, almost every event was perceived, assessed, and responded to in terms of its political, military, and strategic interests in the Gulf.
In contrast, the US viewed events strictly...
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Wednesday, 7 Nov, 2012
If transatlantic relations were a Hallowe'en party, NATO could come as a zombie.
Like the living dead, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization refuses to expire despite chronic n...
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Friday, 12 Oct, 2012
Turkey and Syria traded artillery fire several times this week, as Turkish forces responded to Syrian mortar rounds falling on Turkish territory. A new incident on Wednesday al...
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Exchanges of artillery fire across the Turkish–Syrian border were reported on Wednesday and Thursday, as the Turkish military responded to Syrian army mortar fire on the Turkish ...
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Thursday, 27 Sep, 2012
What common sense could not kill, something called “sequestration” might at least tame.
Under this arcane but conclusive budgetary mechanism, the U.S. government will en...
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Tuesday, 3 Jul, 2012
According to modern realist theory, because the ordering principle of the international system is anarchy—that is, there is no central authority to govern interactions betwee...
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Tuesday, 19 Jun, 2012
The political turmoil that has defined the Arab world since the beginning of 2011 and that has so far resulted in the fall of four regimes (in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen) has ...
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Tuesday, 12 Jun, 2012
In a region that is changing fast—especially in Egypt and Tunisia—there is an urgent need to discuss the problems that afflict Libya and hinder smooth post-conflict reconstruct...
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Wednesday, 18 Apr, 2012
Since the 1980s, Iran has defined itself as the sole revolutionary country in the Middle East. Its basis depended on a doctrinal legitimacy which appeared throughout different ...
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