Türkiye and the Future of AI Sovereignty

Strategic Argument and Areas of Debate Middle powers face a structural paradox where pursuing total technological autarky ensures economic isolation, yet unmanaged interdependence risks the permanent erosion of sovereign strategic agency within computationally mediated governance. The viability of AI sovereignty...

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

Strategic Argument and Areas of Debate The fundamental contradiction of the regional crisis stemming from Sudan is that neighbouring states rely on strict border securitisation...

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

Strategic Argument and Areas of Debate Sudan's crisis is not merely a byproduct of warfare, but a fundamental collapse of access infrastructure where severe hunger...

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

Strategic Argument and Areas of Debate The 2026 Hungarian elections demonstrate that domestic economic stabilisation, rather than a genuine ideological realignment with the European Union,...

Will the Gulf Move Closer to China?

The Iran war has delivered a profound, systemic shock to the Gulf, fundamentally challenging two assumptions that have underpinned regional stability for the better...

Thrown Under the Bus: The Gulf’s Post-Ceasefire Raw Deal

The U.S.-Israel war on Iran, which began in late February 2026 and escalated through March, paused with a two-week ceasefire on April 7–8. Brokered...

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The Politics of Language in the US–Israel War on Iran

The US-Israel war on Iran not only severely impacted regional insecurity, geopolitics, diplomacy, energy and trade, but it also signified a breakdown of the...

Türkiye and the Future of AI Sovereignty

Strategic Argument and Areas of Debate Middle powers face a structural paradox where pursuing total technological autarky ensures economic isolation, yet unmanaged interdependence risks the...

A Deficit of Coherence? Türkiye and the Search for American Strategic...

Strategic Argument and Areas of Debate The United States is experiencing a structural rationality crisis where its immense geopolitical power is no longer guided by...

The Politics of Language in the US–Israel War on Iran

The US-Israel war on Iran not only severely impacted regional insecurity, geopolitics, diplomacy, energy and trade, but it also signified a breakdown of the...

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.

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.

Governing Debt in the Age of Technology

Strategic Argument and Areas of Debate As the structural efficacy of orthodox monetary policy disintegrates under the weight of severe demographic decline and compounding public...

Breaking or Bending: Rethinking Sanctions, Trade, and the Future of Global...

Welcome to the premiere episode of the Tipping Point, a new podcast series from the TRT World Research Centre. For decades, the global economic system...

Beyond the Myths: Protecting Climate Migrants in a Warming World

As climate shocks intensify, displacement is rising, yet global discourse is driven more by political fear than facts. Though most climate-displaced people stay within...

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