“We have a neighbor who is important, big, but still very aggressive, very assertive, and looking for adventures.” “Erdoğan wants to dictate the...
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War, What is it Good For?
Turkey and Greece are locked in a struggle in the Eastern Mediterranean that feels like it belongs more in 1920 than in 2020. Is war possible? In...
A Turkish Game of Thrones
“You can't play Russian roulette any longer in diplomacy. You don't know what's coming up next...” — Nabil Fahmy “We are now living … not in a world...
Sometimes History Rhymes
Egypt’s Nabil Fahmy and Turkey’s Cengiz Çandar discuss what Erdogan wants as he is playing a high stakes game that some think could even lead to war...
There is No Solution Without You
“What Covid has done is to apply an extraordinary and unusually powerful microscope to worldwide governance. And much of what we see through that...
Are We Really All in This Together?
Cardinal Czerny argues that any approach to Covid-19 that does not include those most vulnerable among us is a non-solution. Who then seems to have...
Africa on the Run
“The journey to development has been stunted.” —Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr “Because there's less external pressure on the continent now than there has ever...
African Possibilities
How can Africa cope? Are solutions—or, at least, possibilities—to be found at the local, national or regional level? Listen to Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr,...
You May Choose to Look Away, But Never Again Say You Do Not Know
“The demand for exploitation is not just something that is related to poverty. It is related to a certain kind of human volition, which is global...