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Ties between Moscow and Riyadh are riding out the storm

  • Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Russia's President Vladimir Putin. (AFP) Since OPEC forged an alliance with Russia in late 2016, cordial relations between Saudi Arabia and Russia have been one of its defining features, in particular the relationship be...
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How the Syrian civil war moved to Ukraine

  • As the world has become “a single country” in the past century, a crisis in any one state becomes a matter of grave concern for the whole international community. It was obvious from the first day that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was not only reshaping the European security order and threateni...
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Riyadh and Ankara move to repair their relations

  • Significant encounters between Saudi and Turkish officials in the past week suggest an easing of tensions in political, economic and security relations. Foreign ministers Prince Faisal bin Farhan and Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu met at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation meeting in the Pakistani capi...
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Turkey’s refugee record: From warm welcome to grave concern

  • Turkey’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis in the past decade has been laudable on ethical and humanitarian grounds, but it has also posed disquieting challenges in the realms of economics, politics and security, and social and foreign policy. As the country has accepted more refugees than ...
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Why Turkey is now looking outward

  • States’ foreign policy goals and their strategies to achieve them are not constant. When domestic and international dynamics shift, policies and strategies may also change. Within a year, for example, Turkey’s foreign policy has undergone such a sharp transformation that even those who follow i...
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Russia aims to close ranks with its Astana partners

  • Close on the heels of US President Joe Biden’s trip to the Middle East, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is scheduled to visit the region next week. It will be Putin’s first foreign trip, outside of visits to republics that were part of the former Soviet Union, since he ordered Russia’s ...
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Turkey’s Libya policy can succeed with wider regional support

  • Being engaged politically, militarily and economically in Libya, Turkey is trying to pursue a new strategy in the North African country, which has gone through various phases of turmoil, instability and power struggles among several actors. With Libya still fragile due to the many potential cha...
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Why Iraq’s chaos is Turkey’s concern

  • Clashes between followers of Shiite leader Muqtada Al-Sadr and Iran-backed militias affiliated with the Coordination Framework led by former Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki have intensified fears among many Iraqis that the violence would spill into civil war. The political turmoil has also ala...
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Everyone benefits when countries talk to each other

  • A country’s foreign policy toolbox consists of several means of diplomacy which is nowadays more comprehensive and multilayered than ever. Today, diplomacy enlists other actors at the state level besides diplomats in shaping international relations, and they pursue different methods such as pub...
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Climate change: conflict multiplier or diplomacy trigger?

  • For the next two years, two countries in the Middle East and North Africa region will host the annual UN climate change conferences. Egypt will host COP27 this month and the UAE is due to host COP28 next November. The world’s most prominent climate change summits will allow countries in the reg...
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