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Fri, February 3, 2023 | 09:57

Turkey's mediation efforts between Ukraine and Russia

Turkey's mediation efforts between Ukraine and Russia

Turkey has emerged as an important actor in the mediation process between Ukraine and Russia after the beginning of the war. Ankara has launched bilateral and multilateral forms of relationship with the employment of mediation tools. Participation of Kyiv and Moscow in the talks made Turkey become a rising mediator in the region. Furthermore, the country drew the attention of...

2022-10-09 17:00

All the king's games

All the king's games

A specter is haunting Russia - the specter of dissent. Anti-draft protests have broken out in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and other Russian cities, large and small. Thousands of young men are fleeing the country. And more than 2,000 Russians have been arrested after protesting against President Vladimir Putin's attempt to mobilize 300,000 reservists to fight his war against Ukrai...

2022-10-06 15:27

What caused Russia's war in Ukraine?

What caused Russia's war in Ukraine?

Russia's war in Ukraine is the most disruptive conflict that Europe has seen since 1945. While many in the West see a war of choice by Russian President Vladimir Putin, he says that NATO's 2008 decision in favor of eventual Ukrainian membership brought an existential threat to Russia's borders, and still others trace the conflict back to the Cold War's end and the failure of ...

2022-10-06 15:24

Social media companies need to turn down the heat

Social media companies need to turn down the heat

Baseless attacks by online trolls - whether anonymous or by well-known politicians and public figures - have created a cascade of hate, “underpinned by dangerous misinformation and outright lies against the LGBTQ+ community,” according to recently released research.

2022-10-06 15:22

Elvis has left the building, but stayed in our culture

Elvis has left the building, but stayed in our culture

Baz Luhrmann's new film, “Elvis,” has once again ignited our fascination with a man who left the building for good back in 1977. So why is it that this singer, actor and icon has remained “always on our minds” and whose story is still relevant today?

2022-10-06 15:21

How crises could provide new opportunities

How crises could provide new opportunities

Korea is a country where diplomacy is not easy because the Korean Peninsula is placed in a geopolitically sensitive location where continental and maritime powers collide. At this juncture of history, this is truer than ever, since liberation from Japan and the division of the peninsula. North Korea claimed completion of its nuclear weapons program in 2017 and promulgated its...

2022-10-05 13:53

Giorgia Meloni's moment

Giorgia Meloni's moment

When a “shock” or “extremist” election result comes with record-low voter turnout and a big yawn from financial markets, it is time to find new descriptors. The decisive victory in Italy's general election by the coalition led by Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy party, putting her in line to be the country's first female prime minister and the first to claim an unambiguous ...

2022-10-05 13:27

Confidence in foreign policy starts at home

Confidence in foreign policy starts at home

President Yoon Suk-yeol has been in power for about 150 days at the time of this writing. Koreans had high hopes and expectations that he would resurrect the country's foreign relations that had fallen into disarray under his predecessor, the Moon Jae-in administration. The Moon government went all in to improve ties with North Korea. To the former president, relations with c...

2022-10-04 17:10

Cold War is back

Cold War is back

Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine is an attempt to turn back the clock to a time when Russia was a superpower that dominated Eastern Europe. Yet in what amounts to an effort to change the outcome of the Cold War, Putin has badly overestimated his capabilities. Realities on the ground in Ukraine have revealed that a war motivated by starry-eyed nostalgia for czarist rule was a g...

2022-10-04 16:37

Global necessity of American democracy

Global necessity of American democracy

In his prophetic 1838 Lyceum Address, a generation before the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln predicted that the fall of the United States, if it were ever to occur, would not come from an outside threat, but rather as a result of internal division. “It cannot come from abroad,” he said, “If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.”

2022-10-03 13:30

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