Research QuestionsHow have Israeli-Turkish relations evolved?What is the status of Israeli-Turkish economic ties since their 2016 normalization?What are the standing political and security issues between Israel and Turkey?How might the future of Israeli-Turkish relations develop?What implications do Israeli-Turkish ties have for U.S. interests in the Middle East?This report, which draws largely on Israeli and third-party […]
Russia on the globe, image via Wikipedia BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 882, July 4, 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: China and the US have different geopolitical imperatives, so tensions are bound to increase between the two powers. Russia’s position in the nascent confrontation will be important to watch, as it is simultaneously under pressure from […]
Benjamin Netanyahu, Nicos Anastasiades, and Alexis Tsipras at fourth Cyprus-Greece-Israel summit, photo via Twitter account of Alexis Tsipras EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Cyprus, Greece, and Israel are steadily building a democratic geopolitical bloc in the Eastern Mediterranean. They are exploring ways to collaborate in fields ranging from energy to communication technology and defense. Greek-American and American-Jewish communities […]
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: It is not Gaza’s economic malaise that has precipitated Palestinian violence. It is the other way around: the endemic violence has caused the Strip’s humanitarian crisis. So long as Gaza continues to be governed by Hamas’s rule of the jungle, no Palestinian civil society, let alone a viable state, can develop. No cliché […]
The Kremlin, Moscow, photo by Larry Koester via Flickr CC BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 832, May 13, 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:The Russia-West confrontation has, over the course of the past several years, reached its most tense point since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Differences between the two sides will only grow as neither side […]
Επιμέλεια: Αναστάσιος Μπασαράς, Αντιπρόεδρος ΕΛΙΣΜΕ
1. ΕΘΝΙΚΑ ΘΕΜΑΤΑ α. Κυπριακό Οι ενδοκυπριακές συνομιλίες μετά τη διακοπή τους στις 23 Σεπτεμβρίου στη Γενεύη έχουν παγώσει. Έκτοτε ο κ. Αναστασιάδης, ο οποίος επανεξελέγη στις εκλογές που έγιναν στις 4 Φεβρουαρίου 2018, δηλώνει ότι είναι έτοιμος να συνεχίσει το διάλογο, αλλά η τουρκική πλευρά είναι αρνητική.Ενδεικτικό της τουρκικής απροθυμίας είναι η απόφαση του […]
Επιμέλεια: Αναστάσιος Μπασαράς, Αντιπρόεδρος ΔΣ ΕΛΙΣΜΕ
Επιμέλεια: Αναστάσιος Μπασαράς, Αντιπρόεδρος ΔΣ ΕΛΙΣΜΕ
Q: In the aftermath of the failed coup d’état of July 2016, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is embarking on an attempt to improve Ankara’s relations with non-Western countries to avoid international isolation. The Russian-Turkish rapprochement is a characteristic example. As the EU and the US criticize Erdoğan for his domestic and foreign policy choices, […]
