RUSSIA AND TURKEY: ENEMIES WITH BENEFITS

In this paper, GlobalFocus Center fellow Ovidiu Raețchi reframes the intriguing relationship recently developed between traditional regional adversaries Russia and Turkey as one of competitive cooperation. Make no mistake, he argues: the element of competition remains; the presidential choreographies, however, point to an informal agreement at the highest level, between Putin and Erdogan, to avoid any serious deterioration of relations, each of them considering that one has more to lose if he makes the other vulnerable and obtains geopolitical gains at the other’s expense.

Ovidiu Raețchi is an expert on Middle Eastern politics and history and a former vice-chair of the Committee on Defence, Public Order and National Security of the Chamber of Deputies in the Romanian Parliament.

GlobalFocus Center Executive Director moderates session on hybrid threats at #NATOEngages

GlobalFocus Center will share its knowledge on hybrid threats at the prime NATO event of the year next Tuesday, December 3.

Our Executive Director Oana Popescu Zamfir will moderate “The Battle for Your Mind” session within #NATOEngages, the flagship expert conference on the eve of this year’s NATO Summit.

Human Aspects of the Operational Environment

April 2012 – November 2014 |

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The project on Human Aspects of the Operational Environment aimed to enhance NATO peacekeeping, poswar reconstruction and nation-building capacities. We participated together with renown global think-thanks, experts and academics from US, UK, Afghanistan, Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lybia etc. The event was financed by NATO.