Dr. Serkan Birgel

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Dr. Serkan Birgel is a former researcher at TRT World Research Centre. He holds a PhD from the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, and a Master’s degree in Geopolitics, Territory and Security from King’s College London. His research interests include geopolitics and the natural resource / energy nexus – with particular emphasis on the Eastern Mediterranean region.
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The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Global Outlook

Book
This book is an endeavour to search for meaning through an examination of possible implications of the Covid-19 pandemic from a variety of angles...

Cutting the Gordian Knot: The Necessary Spirit in the Eastern Mediterranean

International Relations & Diplomacy
This paper expounds on the need to focus on a resolution of the Cyprus Problem and argues for a greater commitment to the Turkish–EU...

Hagia Sophia and the Test of Time

Analysis
Is the state of secularism in Turkey entirely predicated upon the exclusion of worshippers from the Hagia Sophia? The long and short of it: Muslims...

Democracy Between Social Media, Political Polarisation, and Disinformation

Policy Outlook
This policy outlook revisits the nature of the relationship between social media, political polarisation, and disinformation, in the context of this nexus for public...

Against Polarisation: The Politics of Gratitude in Cyprus

Analysis
Are we to replace the known dangers of an ethno-national conflict in Cyprus with a new Cypriot nationalism, one that promotes the old xenophobic...

Looming UN Vote and the Future of Aid in Syria

Analysis
Russia and China have previously undermined international efforts to keep border gates open to Syria. In the backdrop of the pandemic, voting on the...

Food Insecurity and the Crashing Syrian Pound

Analysis
With an overwhelming majority already reeling from poverty, the ongoing pandemic has exacerbated food shortages across Syria. Among the myriad of other forms of insecurity...
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