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Can US repair its declining foreign image after elections?

Kilic Bugra Kanat Posted On November 3, 2020

There have been ongoing debates about the U.S.’s declining relevance in regional crises over the last several years. Although the U.S. administration has consistently reiterated its interest in the developments across different regions and expressed certain positions on regional crises, […]

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In post-coronavirus world, nation states doomed to change policies

Kilic Bugra Kanat Posted On March 30, 2020

Since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, there has been a major debate among the scholars and observers of international politics about the potential impact of this pandemic on the international system. The debate focuses on the outbreak and precautions […]

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The end of optimism in US foreign policy

Kilic Bugra Kanat Posted On February 18, 2019

There are many different debates and discussions on the direction of U.S. foreign policy among scholars and practitioners of international relations today. In most of these debates the general idea is on the unpredictability of U.S. policy, absence of U.S. […]

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Towards a New International System Without US Leadership

Kadir Ustun Posted On October 2, 2018

Towards a New International System Without US Leadership

There has been a lot of debate about the current U.S. unwillingness to lead the liberal international order it created after World War II. The Obama administration already displayed signs of war weariness, which often translated into no action in […]

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Turkey’s call for saving the failing liberal world order

Kilic Bugra Kanat Posted On October 1, 2018

In an op-ed in Foreign Policy, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wrote that countries around the world should unite to prevent the fall of the liberal international order. This is not the first call from a world leader to protect the […]

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US’s failed diplomacy glitters in 2017 review

Kilic Bugra Kanat Posted On December 31, 2017

2017 was one of the most challenging years for the international system as a whole. Of course the most significant cause of this was the changing dynamics of U.S. foreign policy in regards to international arrangements. For decades the U.S. […]