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Interview with Rabia Kalfaoglu, Assistant Professor of IR at Recep Tayyip Erdogan University in Rize

Soviet influence in the Middle East was ultimately useless, and now it seems Washington is heading down the same path

In the 21st century, the whole idea of junior and senior partners looks outdated and even archaic. True international partnerships are based on mutual respect, empathy and a carefully calibrated balance of interests

The manner in which Sheikh Hasina was forced to exit has left a big vacuum in terms of governance adversely impacting law and order and secular fabric of Bangladesh that will have ramifications in the region and beyond.

The price of US security guarantees in the event of a direct conflict, for example, with Russia, is quite small

A BRICS interregional currency as a prerequisite for financial multipolarity

America will more-so have to adapt to the emerging world than to adapt the world to itself

The figure of the U.S. president is unlikely to play a big role in Russian-American relations

US-Chinese relations will most likely follow a course of controlled rivalry over the next four years

The two rivals’ jabs at each other are rapidly increasing in both number and intensity

In July-August, 2024 Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Synergia Foundation (Bangalore, India) and Grandview Institution (Beijing, China) held a series of work meeting to negotiate the architecture of a joint project, scheduled for 2024–2025

The region will unfortunately always be a source of bad news, but the great powers aren’t going to risk a broader conflict over it