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China’s Energy Dilemma: Strategic Hedging in the Shadow of the Iran Crisis

The escalation of the US-Israel and Iran conflict that began on 28 February 2026 has forced China to navigate a volatile geopolitical landscape. Amid...

The Paralysis of Permanent Opposition

For years, a significant segment of the Turkish media ecosystem operated within a relatively stable ideological universe. Politics was interpreted through familiar binaries, editorial...

Starved Twice: How Gaza’s Food Crisis Became a Weapon of War

Gaza’s worsening food crisis cannot be explained by shortage alone. This analysis argues that access restrictions, supply disruption, price inflation and infrastructure collapse have turned hunger into a broader crisis of survival, deepened by the wider regional escalation following the US/Israel War on Iran.

Türkiye in Focus

In this week’s Türkiye in Focus: President Erdogan showed Ankara's sensible, measured stance following the European Commision President's remarks Recent remarks by European Commission President Ursula von...

The ‘Uberisation’ of Warfare: How Ukraine’s Drone Revolution Is Rewriting Modern War

Armin Papperger, the chief executive of German arms giant Rheinmetall, recently dismissed Ukraine’s drone manufacturing revolution as equivalent to "playing with Legos", derogatorily attributing...

Containment Without Capacity: Sudan’s Displacement and the Limits of Border Politics

Sudan’s regional spillover cannot be understood solely through the lens of border control, refugee inflows, or humanitarian pressure. Rather, it reflects a broader governance...

Sudan’s Hunger War: Access, Markets, and the Displacement Multiplier

The conflict that erupted in Sudan on April 15, 2023, between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) plunged the...

The Hungarian Elections: A Return to Europe or a New Realpolitik?

Following sixteen years of continuous governance, Viktor Orbán and the Fidesz party suffered a decisive defeat at the hands of the Tisza Party, led...

Türkiye in Focus

In this week’s Türkiye in Focus: Two consecutive school attacks have ignited a wide range of intense societal debates across the country. Ankara has welcomed the...

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