Empowering Turkish Youth – A Journey on Leadership & Political Transformation: Part IV
Kemal Köprülü Cyprus and the famous UN Annan Referendum in 2004 was one of my favorite personal stories that included the EU, Washington, and Turkey. The Eastern Med University and my movement worked together very well, and we did simulations of every possible scenario regarding the vote f
Empowering Turkish Youth – A Journey on Leadership & Political Transformation: Part III
Kemal Köprülü In the 90s, every major political party moved to offer a partnership with us, starting with the late Necmettin Erbakan, who was ousted by the military in the infamous Feb. 28 / 97 soft coup. Erbakan was forming a new party, and he wanted young people to be proactive, and his?
Macedonia’s Geopolitical Alignment: Navigating without a Compass in the Multipolar World
Biljana Vankovska The most appropriate phrase that captures the current state of global affairs is something Antonio Gramsci wrote in 1929: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms ap
A Broken Promise: EU Enlargement into the Western Balkans
Milenko Petrovic There is wide academic and political consensus that the EU enlargement process has decisively contributed to the successful democratization and marketization of the post-communist countries of East Central Europe (ECE) and the Baltics, all of which became EU members in 2004 o
Foreword
Aybars Arda Kılıçer The Balkans, a region often caught in the crosscurrents of global power dynamics, stands as a testament to the intricate and evolving geopolitical landscape. Historically a bridge between East and West, the Balkans today are a focal point of strategic interests from maj
Empowering Turkish Youth – A Journey on Leadership & Political Transformation: Part II
Kemal Köprülü Arrogance and incompetence coexist in Washington DC, but no one cares what decisions are made or who is held accountable. We have seen politics collapse, and people who should be nowhere near the government are managing it. Members of the U.S. Congress are weak, with electe
Empowering Turkish Youth – A Journey on Leadership & Political Transformation: Part I
Kemal Köprülü Türkiye is a country I used to know exceptionally well from residing there for 35 years and personally engaging with the youth at the grassroots between the ages of 17 and 25, where our leadership-building sessions and events touched 50,000 young people directly and indirect
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Between the West and the Rest
Zlatan Begic The United States of America administration, as well as a part of influential Western analysts and theorists, present and perceive the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter: BH) – known as the Dayton Peace Agreement (hereinafter: the D
American Youth and Sports
Kemal Köprülü Young people in America are supposed to be trained to think freely, engage others, compete fairly, always be a team member first and display self-confidence. Treating people around you in this manner will multiply and become part of the norm, giving strength and providing cou
Bolivia and the BRICS Objective
Fernando Lopez Ariñez Little has been said in the debates within Latin America regarding the rise of BRICS, primarily due to certain political actors who seek to reject and deny the relevance of the countries that constitute the block. In that sense, we are facing strong willpower from certa
