BY ELANUR URAL Prior to 2014, both Crimea and the Tatars were relatively unknown names to household news in the West. Now they are mentioned almost daily, most recently in… read more →
BY ELANUR URAL VICE’s crew visited it with protective suits, but David Farrier of Netflix’s Dark Tourist jumped right in after a shot of vodka. Kazakhstan’s ‘Atomic Lake’, though sitting… read more →
BY AUSTEN DOWELL While American foreign-policy experts and politicians are consumed with the threat of the so-called “rise of China” to US regional and global interests, it is easy to… read more →
BY DANIEL ROSSELL-EVANS Shanghai Cooperation Organization Introduction The end of this year’s G7 Summit in Canada provoked images of an alliance divided, with key partners airing their grievances in public.… read more →
BY AUSTEN DOWELL Nowhere is Uzbekistan’s constant juggling act between advancing national security interests and producing much-needed economic growth so readily apparent as at its long Ferghana Valley border. Foreign… read more →
BY ELANUR URAL Filbert, fındık, call it what you will: Turkish hazelnuts are about to flood the international market. Turkey has a near monopoly on hazelnuts, producing about 70% of… read more →
BY SEAN CROWLEY Following the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the United States moved to fill the security vacuum left in the post-communist… read more →
BY ELANUR URAL On a global scale, it is difficult to understand why there are substantial numbers of women in particular subscribing to the hyper masculine, strongman leader brand. This… read more →
BY ALEXANDER GALITSKY If the imposition of a punitive sanctions regime on Iran was designed as a means of compelling behavioral change, it represents a severe misunderstanding of a political… read more →
BY STEWART KATO On May 19th, 2017, Iran held its twelfth presidential elections in which its people expressed readiness for economic and social reform as well as interest in rejoining… read more →