Skip navigation
International Centre for Defence and Security Accessibility
LMC 2011

Middle Eastern Geopolitics in an Age of Change

Middle East

Speakers

Hossein Bastani

Political Analyst, BBC World

Mohamed Elagati

Researcher & Executive Director, Arab Forum for Alternatives (AFA)

İlter Turan

Emeritus Professor at Istanbul Bilgi University, past President of the International Political Science Association

Moderator

Sven Mikser

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Estonia

Photos by Annika Haas / Lennart Meri Conference. View all.
Right on? Do the New Radical Parties Challenge the Consensus – or the System?
Less Money but Better Ideas: How to Revive the Eastern Partnership?

Related articles

Reuters/Scanpix
Europe, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Middle East

Turkish Foreign Policy in Shifting Political Landscapes

Following WWII, Türkiye linked its security to the Western defence system, joining NATO in 1952. This connection protected it against Soviet expansionism, helped modernise and expand its armed forces, and integrate them with the community of democracies that it aspired to join. Also, Türkiye’s economy…

İlter Turan
LMC 2023
AP/Scanpix
Defence, European Union, Middle East, Migration

The Migration Trap: A Southern Flank Perspective

Since the 2015 crisis, migration has become the biggest Achilles heel of the EU’s solidarity as the discrepancy in the impact of migration on the southern, northern, and central and eastern European (CEE) countries steadily challenges a common action.

Ana Isabel Xavier
LMC 2023
AFP/Scanpix
Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Middle East

The Shifting Patterns of Alliances in the Middle East: Surveying the Fluid Geostrategic Landscape

When Russia launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, many commentators in the West expected that the US allies in the Middle East would be the key players in tightening the Western sanctions on Russia. But this was not the case.

Ali Alavi
LMC 2023
Load more