Author: Muhammet Ali Zurnacı
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Counter Strategy PEK
Environmental Conditioning is likely to force PEK into making quick decisions. Turkey is deeply involved in diplomatic activity, searching for areas of maneuver despite feeling increasingly cornered by the hyperactive counter-diplomatic moves of other regional middle powers attempting to influence regional and subregional functions. Turkey remains hesitant about cross-border operations (land and maritime) due to the potential…
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2023 Forward
Swaying PEK in the Wind of Global Power Competition While each actor strives to become the dominant force in the Near/Middle East and the Eurasian/Caucasus regions, the natural-environmental realities of global and regional power competition set clear boundaries on their subjective actions. All these actors are caught in fascinating swings between “existential threats” and “rational…
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What is PEK?
In the Time of Soaring Prices and Roaring Images MUHAMMET ALİ ZURNACI Eurasia, Near East, and Asia:Celebrating, ping-ponging, and smiling… Conscription, devaluation, turmoil…Roaring, cheering, relaxing… Gas, tourism, and oil…Pretending, forcing, forgetting… Sanction, sanction, sanction…Tanks, drones, and nuclear weapons… Why do they play with the soil?Why do they keep laughing? One would not call the poem…
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Orchestration of Internal Politics
PEK Region: From Harmony to Cacophony Immorality often emerges in all segments of the power game when internal and external power struggles begin to rage. Anthropology can teach us some lessons, though Ethology may offer even more. Music serves as the best pattern pool here for me. Take the PEK region, for instance. While actors…
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Escalate to Fear
Impressing the Sphere of Influence in Between “Escalate to De-escalate” and “Escalate to Escalate” Despite downsizing its ultimate target, the increasingly radical behavior of the Russian military now confirms the expectations outlined in the MAZ Foresight report released last week: By targeting power grids in Kyiv, Russia is attempting to impress the ground and send…