Unforced Errors: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Turkey’s Domestic and Foreign Policy Crises

March 25, 2022 Early last summer, Pavel Baev, writing for the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri), wrote that, “the tumultuous year 2020 tested and significantly degraded the always ambiguous Russian-Turkish partnership, which had become transactional at best and certainly not ‘strategic’”, and that, “the maturing of autocratic regimes in Russia and Turkey does not

The Russian War in Ukraine: A Truly Global Problem

March 11, 2022 In today’s globally interconnected world, war and strife in one part of the Earth can, and often does, have an enormous impact not only on the immediate region, but the rest of the planet. Indeed, the effects of the war even reach beyond the Earth, as well. While the majority of U.S.

Foreign Policy Links for the Week Ending 10/22/2021

October 22, 2021 For just the second time this year, personal scheduling difficulties will mean that there will be no traditional blog post this week. However, that does not mean that there has not been a number of fascinating articles and reports released in recent weeks which I have not had a chance to cover

Is Swiss Time Running Out?: Turkish Reevaluation of Montreux, the Turkish-Russian Relationship, and U.S. Interests in the Black Sea Region

April 16, 2021 Just last week, it was announced that the government of Turkey had arrested ten retired admirals for signing their names to a statement supporting the 1936 Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits. The document, considered to be one of the foundational texts governing modern Turkey, governs control over ships through