Genocide and the promise of ‘never again’
April 24 is not simply a date. It marks a beginning and a warning.
In 1915, in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, Armenian intellectuals and community leaders were arrested in ...
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Thirty years on: rethinking Huntington’s Clash of Civilisations
Thirty years on, why revisit Professor Samuel Huntington’s seminal and widely debated book, The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order, published in 1996?
Not to celebrate a ...
Power, illusion and the Thucydides warning
Power rarely collapses from weakness. It collapses from the consequences of misjudgement. The confrontation between the US and Israel with Iran may prove to be one of those moments.
My ...
Cyprus: an ‘unsinkable aircraft carrier’ no longer
Cyprus has long been regarded in strategic thinking as an “unsinkable aircraft carrier” in the Eastern Mediterranean. The phrase captures a hard reality. Today it carries a more troubling implication: ...
Iran: the paradoxical logic of victory in an asymmetric war
Wars do not all share the same definition of victory. In what are commonly called asymmetric wars – conflicts between opponents of vastly unequal power and resources – the logic is almost ...
Iran and the limits of force
The United States and Israel continue to strike Iran. Tehran is responding largely on its own, targeting Israeli and American positions as well as installations across the Gulf. Military deployments ...
When power increasingly ceases to recognise legality
More than two millennia ago, Thucydides captured the essence of power in international affairs.
In the Melian Dialogue, when Athens demanded submission from the neutral island of Melos, its envoys ...
Iran: regime change is a slogan, not a plan
Once again, the debate over Iran is framed as a stark choice between strength and weakness, action and inaction. Between good and evil. This is a false binary. The real ...
Trump and Greenland: not a joke, but a US strategy all along
When President Trump first floated the idea of buying Greenland in 2019, the international response ranged from ridicule to satire. The notion of purchasing a vast, icy landmass from Denmark seemed ...
Understanding hybrid war
The recent leaked video alleging campaign finance violations by President Nikos Christodoulides and his associates has thrust the terms “hybrid warfare”, “hybrid war”, and “hybrid attack” into Cyprus’ public discourse. ...
From embargoes to strategic partnerships
The recent lifting by the US and Norway of the long-standing arms embargoes on Cyprus is not about weapons. It is about strategy. It is about recognition that Cyprus has ...
The two-state gambit: decoding Turkey’s strategic play in Cyprus
Turkey has been intensifying its promotion of a “two-state” solution in Cyprus, turning it into the centrepiece of its diplomatic narrative – or so it appears.
Most recently, during a meeting ...