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Under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey is currently going through something of a crisis in relation to its foreign policy, and its neo-Ottoman ambitions to revive its status as an imperial power. Or, in other words, along with Turkey’s growing economic crisis, it may also be suffering from a kind of “diplomatic stagnation” caused by a number of factors. NATO’s expansion to the North-East, or, specifically, Finland and Sweden’s accession to the alliance, was unexpectedly opposed by its easternmost member, Turkey. Ankara, using its influence with the Turkic states…

The military conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, has continued since 7 October. That day, Hamas launched rocket attacks on central and southern Israel. Hamas militants stormed into the border Israeli communities and seized several border posts and a military base, taking hostages along the way. After the militant invasion, Israel declared war on Hamas, imposed a state of emergency, launched retaliatory air strikes and gave Gaza residents 24 hours to move south. Hamas responded that “dying in their homes” was better than expulsion…

Is a new African confederation possible between Ethiopia and Eritrea? This list does not exclude the international arena; hence, on the political map, one can observe at least a few “pairs” of states whose historically conditioned confrontation is taken for granted and continues to be a source of sporadic escalation or ongoing conflicts for many years. North and South Korea, Azerbaijan and Armenia, Turkey and Greece, Iran and Israel, India and Pakistan, China and Taiwan, and, until recently, Ethiopia and Eritrea are a few examples of these unforgiving opponents. After centuries of tense relations…