Bu yazı 16.04.2015 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. The race for the 2016 presidential elections in the U.S. has started, with more than a dozen candidates already expressing their interest in running for their party’s presidential nomination. The number of Republican candidates who have already declared their intention currently outnumbers…

Bu yazı 09.04.2015 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. When the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union dissolved, a new era of democratic expansionism was heralded, as Francis Fukuyama declared the end of history, optimistically assuming human ideological evolution had ended and liberal democracy ultimately triumphed over the authoritarianism of…

Bu yazı 02.04.2015 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. Since the end of the Cold War, the international system has been fluctuating. While the bipolar system has ended, no equivalent is in place yet. In the early days of the post-Cold War era, some talked about the unipolar moment as the…

Bu yazı 26.03.2015 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. Diplomats from Iran and the P5+1 group of countries, made up by five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany, are racing against time in an effort to sketch up an acceptable framework for a comprehensive agreement on Iran’s nuclear…

Bu yazı 19.03.2015 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. The fighting in Syria, which started with an uprising against the Bashar al-Assad regime and transformed into a deadly civil war, has entered its fifth year. As of January 2015, it has claimed over 220,000 lives, displaced 7.6 million people inside Syria,…