Vassilis K. Fouskas is Professor of International Relations at Richmond University, London, and founding and managing editor of the <i>Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies </i>(Routledge, quarte
Has Turkey weaponized the refugees in a hybrid warfare against a hypocritical Europe and NATO, while Russia is the real winner in Syria? A conversation.
July 7, the date of the national elections in Greece, has come and gone. But July 8 will not bring happiness to any systemic party. It will only bring anxiety, perplexity and fear.
The British
people, failed by their natural representative, the Labour Party, opted for the
nationalist radicalism of Farage’s UKIP. Thus, the demagogues won. But not those
who voted for them.
The US, a declining superpower, is trying to use the power of
the dollar as a weapon to punish Turkey and other disobedient actors in the
international system.