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Kenneth Waltz’s Final Warning on Iran

Mediterranean Institute for Regional Studies

5/5/2024 1:46:00 PM

Iran’s role in the October 7th attacks was not direct, but Tehran has provided abundant financial resources to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Global affairs experts realized quickly that the potential for Iran, its proxies, and allies to be drawn into a regional coalition against Israel was dangerously high. The likelihood of regional conflagration has altered the geopolitical landscape and severely impeded global supply chain routes. Israel, a major player in the global economy, was now

Energy Geopolitics and Conflict between Energy Basins: A Perspective beside Securitization of the New Regional and Global Order

Bahrooz Jaafar

12/29/2022 11:49:00 AM

Are these conflicts more energy-related, or do they have historical and political depth? Will natural gas pipelines (the new energy geopolitics) lead to a new common regional cooperation system, or is it a source of conflict and increasing regional problems? This study, from the Mediterranean Institute for Regional Studies, attempts to understand the essence of problems by identifying three main energy basins and showing what the new regional and global energy system will look like.

What Erdogan Really Wants in the Eastern Mediterranean

Mediterranean Institute for Regional Studies

1/24/2021 8:27:00 PM

In an episode that has tediously repeated itself several times since July, Turkey’s seismic-survey ships and navy vessels clash with Greek authorities while probing for hydrocarbons in waters off the small Greek island of Kastellorizo. Turkey and Greece—perennial foes—don’t see eye to eye on the Mediterranean’s maritime boundaries. Yet, each time they bicker, pundits are quick to reduce the Greek-Turkish standoff to a bilateral kerfuffle over natural resources.

Opportunities, challenges in US-Iraqi dialogue – opinion

Bahrooz Jaafar

6/19/2020 10:14:00 AM

The American-Iraqi relationship went through two stages. The first started in 2003 with the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime and lasted until 2011, when American forces withdrew from Iraq. The second stage started in 2014, with direct supervision of and assistance to the coalition forces in the war against the Islamic State (ISIS), and lasted until mid-2017.

U.S.-Russian Relations in a New Era

New Title

1/8/2019 1:57:00 PM

The post–Cold War period in U.S.-Russian relations ended abruptly in March 2014 with the eruption of the Ukraine crisis. The United States finally abandoned the waning aspiration to slowly integrate Russia into the Euro-Atlantic community that had driven its Russia policy since the end of the Cold War. Russia demonstrated its willingness to flout the norms that had governed European security since the signing of the Helsinki Accords in 1975 to protect its vital national interests.

Turkey – Israel Relations: During the Justice and Development Party Period (2002-2015)

Bahrooz Jaafar

10/28/2017 4:31:00 PM

The nature of Israeli-Turkish relations were defined as a series of waves that went through some ups and downs, and this is due to regional and international changes.
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