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19 articles · Writing for PUGAT 2021–2025 · 2 series
The wave of recognition of Palestine begun by Spain, Norway and Ireland and joined by France and the United Kingdom raises the question “why now?”: a belated conscience, or a new Western strategy against unilateral US support?
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has entered its third year. Millions of Ukrainians have been displaced, Western support has turned into a “favour”, and Russia has revived its economy despite sanctions.
The League of Nations could not preserve peace between the two world wars. The war in Ukraine raises the question of whether the UN will share a similar fate.
The diplomatic tension between Turkey and Greece is turning into a humanitarian crisis as migrants are pushed back in the Aegean. The second part of the Wild West series asks why pushbacks happen.
Built on human rights and the rule of law, the European Union is being tested by its own values in the face of migration and war. The first part of the Wild West series.
Removal from the F-35 programme and sanctions on critical weapons systems disrupted the modernisation of the Turkish Armed Forces. The author reads Türkiye’s stance on NATO enlargement in the light of these sanctions.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine brought Sweden and Finland, after decades of neutrality, to NATO’s door. The author reads Ankara’s objection through the lens of domestic politics and electoral calculations.
In March 2022 Russian and Ukrainian delegations met in Istanbul. The author assesses the content of the negotiations and how Turkey’s mediating role was used in domestic politics.
In the second week of the invasion, Zelensky reproached the West: “How many more people must die?” The article examines, country by country, the support European countries have given Ukraine.
From neighbourhood to Crimea, from the Black Sea Fleet to NATO: we explain the Russia–Ukraine question in 15 questions.
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