Burak Elmali is a Researcher at TRT World Research Centre in Istanbul. He holds an MA degree in Political Science and International Relations from Boğaziçi University. His research areas include the geopolitics of interconnectivity, the concept of great power competition between the U.S. and China and its manifestation in the Gulf. His works were published in various media outlets and he appears in TV as a guest interviewee.
The Iran war has delivered a profound, systemic shock to the Gulf, fundamentally challenging two assumptions that have underpinned regional stability for the better...
The post-Cold War international order—once described by Francis Fukuyama as marking the "end of history"—has undergone a profound transformation. In contrast to the relative...
The global order is undergoing a transition from a post-Cold War, U.S.-led unipolar structure to a more fragmented and competitive multipolar system. This shift,...