
Explainer: Turkey’s Concerns on NATO Expansion
Photo credit: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/21/erdogan-speaks-to-stoltenberg-over-finland-sweden-nato-bid Especially after the 15...

Politico-economic Compatibility of Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements
How the Practices of the Wider Black Sea Region Can Assist Photo credit: https://www.sipri.org/news/2019/sipri-informs-black-sea-security...

Poking the Sleeping Bear: Is the Ukraine Crisis Still the West's Fault?
Photo credit: https://unsplash.com/s/photos/russia-and-ukrain On 24 February 2022, just days after officially recognizing the...

"International Relations and the Problem of Time" by Andrew Hom - a book review
Slaying the Dragon of Time: Theory as Narratives of Time in International Relations The clock talked loudly. I threw it away, it scared...


V4’s Geopolitical Solidarity and its Limitations
By Piotr Marczyński ©Kafkadesk On the 19th of August, the presidents of Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic issued a joint...


The Relationship between the EU and Turkey throughout the Refugee Crisis
Turkey has been a candidate member of the European Union (EU) for a significantly long period. More specifically, Turkey applied for...


"Defender Europe-2020"’s breakdown: large-scale NATO exercises may be disrupted by COVID-1
The NATO "Defender Europe-2020" maneuvers were supposed to be the largest military exercises in Europe over the last 25 years – and this...

The EU-Japan partnership: blooming hope for the world liberal order?
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder” is not your typical saying in international relations, a truism that the diplomatic history of...