Belt and Road Initiative, image via Wikimedia Commons BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 900, July 22, 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Mediterranean Sea, one of the most important maritime trade highways in the world, is the marine traffic hub at the western end of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Beijing’s maritime strategic activities in the Mediterranean […]
Euroasia route map by Karaol via Wikipedia BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 897, July 17, 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Eastern Mediterranean Alliance (Israel, Greece, and Cyprus) is emerging at a time of increasing global instability. All three states are firm democracies that promote peace, security, and environmental stability in the region. […]
Chatham House Expert Perspectives 2018: Risks and Opportunities in International Affairs Download PDF Authors Adam Ward (Commissioning Editor), Deputy Director, Chatham House Chatham House exterior. Photo: Chatham House, London. There is a sense that the established order in global affairs is shifting. The rules, norms and institutions that have governed state-to-state relations and international […]
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 […]
