Opinion Matters: Navigating Perspectives - Turkish Policy Quarterly

ForewordFriday, September 1, 2023
There have been numerous significant developments for TPQ since 2022. Our recent rebranding as Transatlantic Policy Quarterly not only reflects our expanded focus on international issues with broad implications for European and American...

Aybars Arda Kılıçer

Interview with Mr. Jakob HallgrenFriday, September 1, 2023
This interview took place on 14 October 2022 through Zoom. TPQ (Editor-in-Chief Aybars Arda Kılıçer and Associate Editor Ali Demircioğlu) asked several questions to Mr. Jakob Hallgren, the Director of the Swedish Institute of International...

TPQ Team

Turkey as a Mediator Power in the Russian Aggression to UkraineFriday, September 1, 2023
The Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory changed the perception of security and international law on the global level. We need to think about the future framework of regional cooperation in terms of security and sustainable development in the...

Nadija Afanasieva

Economic Sanctions — Our Modern-Day Gordian KnotFriday, September 1, 2023
The modern history of economic sanctions begins with the wake of WWI. Economic sanctions, notably in the form of naval embargoes, were seen as an effective instrument to limit the war-making powers of adversaries. Yet, several countries including the...

Hossein G. Askari

A Look at the Impact of Executive Order 13985 on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and AccessibilityFriday, September 1, 2023
Inequity, racism, and unequal opportunity in the workplace are well documented.[1] These vices are kept in place through the differential treatment of people of color in our society. Studies have shown that racial minorities are more likely to...

Ruth Dorsainville

Armenian-Azerbaijani Rapprochement: Facing a HurdleFriday, September 1, 2023
One year ago, in a piece titled “Towards Armenian–Azerbaijani rapprochement: Initial steps,”[1] I evaluated the initial developments towards the rapprochement undertaken by the governments of both Azerbaijan and Armenia, and...

Gulshan Pashayeva

Technology Cooperation in An Era of MultipolarityFriday, September 1, 2023
In the past 30 years, the world has experienced significant changes. The Cold War came to an end with the fall of the iron curtain, which set the stage for a globalization wave dominated by U.S.-European norms. The era has been characterized by an...

Tommy Shih

Sources of AI Innovation: More than a U.S.-China RivalryFriday, September 1, 2023
Many experts frame the debates around AI technology as a great power rivalry between the U.S. and China.[1] Indeed, by most measures, the United States and China lead the world in AI innovation. Yet focusing solely on the United States and China...

The Nordic Countries - Divided and UnitedFriday, September 1, 2023
“The world will never be the same again” - so the saying goes in Europe and elsewhere. And as we, in early April 2022, see the horrible pictures from Ukraine, it is hard to think otherwise, knowing well that things may become even worse...

Gunilla Herolf

Differences and Similarities of War in Bosnia and War in UkraineFriday, September 1, 2023
Late February 2022, and early April 1992. These are the starting dates of the two largest European wars for decades. They were both preceded by conflicts which have cost thousands of lives; the war in Croatia in 1991 and the war in eastern...

Brendan Humphreys

The War on Women and BabiesFriday, September 1, 2023
Girls and women constitute approximately half of a country’s population. As Therese Hyden from Sweden stated in her article in 2019[1], when she rightfully called for inclusion of women in global political discourse, “By excluding women,...

Karina Schmitt

What Moscow Has Taught to Non-Nuclear-Weapon StatesFriday, September 1, 2023
In the early 1990s, newly independent Ukraine briefly possessed more nuclear warheads than China, France and Great Britain taken together. It had inherited from the USSR some 1,900 strategic and 2,500 tactical nuclear weapons.[1] However,...

A European Political Community?Friday, September 1, 2023
The European Political Community (EPC) launch in Prague on 6 October was relatively quiet amid doubts about what shape the project would take. Its overriding goal would be “stabilizing the European,” French President Emmanuel Macron said...

Åsa Gustafsson

Decoding Xi Jinping’s Speech: China’s Cautious Optimism Will Mark the Next Five YearsFriday, September 1, 2023
On 16 October, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a two-hour speech at the opening of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC). From national security to global economic integration, the address covered many issues related...

Burak Elmalı

Utopia and the Land of OpportunitiesFriday, September 1, 2023
The United States of America is the most populous country in the world that embraces immigrants; it has over 50 million immigrants, winning the race by a long distance between it and Germany, which comes in second place by 15.8 million...

Ahmed Nouh

Governing ScarcityFriday, September 1, 2023
For European countries, the resurgence of conflict on geographical and cultural frontiers, together with heightened tensions in the Balkans and the "Wider Mediterranean," is a severe stressor. While it's encouraging to see calls for a...

Lorenzo Somigli

Opinion Matters: Navigating PerspectivesVol. 22 No. 2 Summer 2023

Opinion Matters: Navigating Perspectives
Vol. 22 No. 2 Summer 2023