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    EU – Poland Relations as a Microcosm of Europe’s Right-Wing Populism Problem

    When we look at the reactions of western countries to the Ukraine war, it would not be an exaggeration to speak about it in...

    A Critical Approach to Global Performance Indexes (GPIs): Evidence from Türkiye

    With the spread of globalisation, there has been a rapid increase in the number of indexes measuring and ranking countries' performances in certain political,...

    The Metaverse is Trending, but Does it Live up to the Hype?

    This paper discusses the virtual platform known as the Metaverse. In light of developments in connection speed, virtual reality (VR), wearable technologies and artificial...

    Countering China’s BRI: The G-7’s Partnership For Global Infrastructure And Investment (PGII)

    This discussion paper will argue that G-7 members' motivations for countering the BRI revolve around weakening China's economic and political power. The G-7’s efforts to...

    Humanitarian Responsibility Knows No Limits: AFAD and Türkiye’s Global Outreach

    This paper seeks to examine how institutionalised practices of disaster and risk management are carried out by AFAD as a single official body of...

    The Ideational Pillars of China’s Rise

    This paper explores how China seeks to ideologically build regional and international hegemony through a set of historical and cultural elements as a way...

    Reforming the United Nations Security Council: Accountability, Effectiveness, and Representation

    This Discussion Paper concludes that reforms regulating the use of veto as well as reforms increasing the number of non-permanent UNSC members must be...

    European Politics between Technocracy and Populism

    The European Union is caught between right-wing populism on the one hand, and technocratic neoliberalism – with its own identity politics – on the...

    The Global Impact of the War in Ukraine on Food Prices: Deprivation, Discontent and Unrest

    This discussion paper will explore how the ripple effects of the Russia–Ukraine war have the potential to cause global unrest directly contributing to the...

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