Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 07/26/2016 - 09:23
Paper No. 6153 Dated 26-Jul-2016
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Turkey’s political turbulence evidenced by the attempted military coup in recent weeks in mid-2016 raises grave strategic concerns arising from its crucial geostrategic location astride the junction of Europe and Asia.
Turkey perceptionaly stands besieged today both internally and externally as a result of its domestic politics and its foreign policy deviating from its long established Western-centric policies.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 08/31/2015 - 05:36
Paper No. 5998 Dated 31-Aug-2015
By Dr Subhash Kapila
The European Union till recently was credited with being the ‘third pole’ in the multipolar world that exists currently and these deductions were logical when the combined political, economic and military might was taken into account of its leading members France Britain and Germany, and with France and Britain being Permanent Members of the UN Security Council with veto powers.