Research

Growing rapprochement between China and Iran was only a matter of time. While Tehran got isolated by US sanctions and its sectarian-based regional hostility, China’s Belt and Road Initiative and gro...

In just a year into Joe Biden’s presidency, we already see that the administration’s work is riddled within both its domestic and foreign policy initiatives. The pragmatic and US-centred foreign...

In every French presidential campaign, there are specific issues candidates centre their programmes around. It is not different in 2022 either, when the country prepares for the two rounds of the suff...

After US-Israeli relations have seen a flourishing development during Trump’s presidency, Joe Biden’s intention to rebalance US foreign policy could bring the era of neglection to the Middle Eas...

Christian democracy, like other political ideologies, has a solid value orientation. Naturally, values tend to change in the light of the dominant norms of the current society. Still, there is a gener...

There is a broad consensus that the CDU has been “the Christian democratic party” in the past seventy years. Several reasons are behind this convention which, in general, we do not question. Yet...

When campaigning for the presidential elections in 2017, Emmanuel Macron, leader of the newly created En Marche! party, had promised several reforms in French domestic policies, and on the European as...

The various legal theorists dealing with the operation and effect of law have mostly examined situations that can be described as occurring in the usual, regular, normal state of social life. Over the...

In the end of this summer the world shockingly witnessed reports from Kabul on desperate crowds of Afghani people trying to escape on the last flights from the war battered country and the rapidly r...