Geopoliticus February 24, 2017 No “Hero of Haarlem” in Ankara With Mary Mapes Dodge’s Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, the English-speaking world took to heart the tale of... Read more »
Geopoliticus August 9, 2016 Turkey: From “NATO’s Anchor” to What? On Monday, the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet Gazetesi published the backstory to President Recep Erdoğan’s meeting in St. Petersburg with... Read more »
Geopoliticus July 30, 2016 Turkey’s Greater Unknowns On July 15 at approximately 10 PM, an attempted coup d’etat was staged by elements of Turkey’s military. Parliament... Read more »
Geopoliticus July 5, 2016 What Should We Make Of The Islamic State’s Ramadan Wave Of Violence? The Islamic State has taken the final week of Ramadan to make a big statement: “We will not go... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 7, 2016 Turkey’s Parliamentary System has a Presidential Stage-Manager In the summer of 2015, I wrote a profile of Turkey’s electoral system and noted the following: “In essence,... Read more »
Geopoliticus October 15, 2015 Is Turkey’s Military Reentering Politics? Hulusi Akar, the recently selected chief of Turkey’s military, confronts a very tense, if not perilous environment. His August appointment... Read more »
Geopoliticus October 29, 2014 Turkey’s Competing Strategic Cultures: Part 4 – Now and Into the Future (Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.) Scholars of strategic culture have noted that multiple strategic cultures can exist... Read more »
Geopoliticus October 22, 2014 Turkey’s Shifting Strategic Culture: Part 3 – From Republican to Neo-Ottoman (Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 4.) Coups are a constant reference point in Turkish politics. This is not surprising... Read more »
Geopoliticus October 20, 2014 Turkey’s Shifting Strategic Culture: Part 2 – The Rise of Republican Strategic Culture (Read Part 1, Part 3, and Part 4.) Turkey is in the headlines for its reticence to intervene more aggressively in... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 17, 2014 Turkey’s Shifting Strategic Culture: Part I (Read Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.) When Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was recently sworn in as the President of the... Read more »