Etiket arşivi: transatlantic relations

2025: A Year of Disappointments                

December 15, 2025

In two weeks, the year 2025 will be behind us. The end of a year is a moment of reflection on the achievements, disappointments, and failures of the past twelve months and whether different paths could have been taken. In international relations, those who choose between “new chapters” and “the same old story” are world leaders, primarily among them the leaders of major powers. And “new chapters” are not easy to start writing.

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UNGA 80 and Türkiye’s Agenda

September 22, 2025

This morning, the UN General Assembly begins its “High-level Week 2025” with a meeting to mark the 80th anniversary of the UN. Later in the day, the UN will resume the High-Level International Conference for the “Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution,” co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia. The conference aims to reaffirm international commitments to the two-state solution and seek support for its implementation. From September 22 to 30, world leaders will address global issues during the General Debate.

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Ukraine Peace: A Challenge for Transatlantic Relations

March 10, 2025

On February 19, 2021, President Biden addressed the Virtual Munich Security Conference. He declared, “America is back.”

Last week, President Trump delivered his State of the Union address before Congress. He started his remarks with the following:

“I return to this chamber tonight to report that America’s momentum is back. Our spirit is back. Our pride is back. Our confidence is back…”

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Realignment in the West?

March 3, 2025

For centuries Europe remained the world’s main battleground. The casualties of the two world wars within four decades dwarfed the losses and devastation of past conflicts.  And as the Second World War ended, the Iron Curtain descended across Europe.

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Europe’s Time of Troubles

October 24, 2022

For centuries Europe remained the world’s main battleground. But the number of casualties of the two world wars, occurring within four decades, dwarfed the losses and devastation of the past conflicts.  And as the Second World War ended, the Iran Curtain descended across Europe.

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