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Critical Minerals, Rare Earths, and the Türkiye-EU Partnership: Supply Chain Resilience and the Restructuring of Global Order
Riccardo Gasco & Dr. Federico Donelli

The weaponization of economic interdependence has made supply chains the primary arena of geopolitical competition. China's deliberate consolidation of critical mineral processing capacity — con...

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Kurds, the Iran War, and Türkiye’s Strategy of Preventive Stabilization
Seren Selvin Korkmaz & Riccardo Gasco

The killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in joint U.S.–Israeli strikes on February 28 did more than decapitate a 47-year-long regime. It accelerated a regional recalibration that...

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Parallel Tracks of Autocratization: Türkiye and Hungary in Comparative Perspective
Dr. Edgar Şar

Democracy's retreat has become one of the defining political trends of the 21st century. Over the past two decades, a growing number of countries have experienced regime change away from democracy&mda...

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Syria at a Crossroads: Türkiye, the Kurds, and the Future of Regional Order

The 20th Foreign Policy Talks  series, which brings together experts, researchers, academics, and journalists to discuss current foreign policy issues, was held online by IstanPol  ...

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EU trade acceleration with India and Mercosur: How it is reshaping Türkiye's competitive perimeter
Riccardo Gasco

For Türkiye, the European Union’s (EU) accelerating trade diplomacy is no longer a distant story about Brussels’ external agenda. It is a direct stress test of Ankara’s structur...

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