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11.12.2023 / 13:34

One year ago, if an analyst predicted that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would have signed a document committing “to refrain from any statement, initiative or act likely to undermine [the Athens Declaration on Friendly Relations and Good-Neighborliness] or endanger the maintenance of peace and stability in [the] region” and to “resolve any dispute between [Greece and Turkey] in an amicable manner through direct consultations between them or through any other means as provided for in the United Nations Charter,” they would have been laughed out of the room.


06.08.2023 / 20:20

Over the last several years, July has been a key month for advancing a pro-Hellenic legislative agenda in the United States Congress.


25.07.2023 / 21:37

“Is Turkey fundamentally reassessing its pro-Western foreign policy?” Fareed Zakaria’s question to Joe Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on June 4 made me turn up the TV volume.


30.05.2023 / 21:46

Recep Tayyip Erdogan will soon start his third term as Turkey’s president. There will be much hand-wringing over whether he regained power through “free and fair elections” (he didn’t), what this means for democracy in Turkey (not good) and whether his victory was really better for stability in the region and Greece’s security (it isn’t).


26.02.2023 / 14:13

The fourth round of the US-Greece Strategic Dialogue in Athens this week was by all accounts another positive step towards a deepening strategic relationship.



05.07.2022 / 23:51

Over the past five years, US-Turkey relations have featured a consistent attempt at “hostage diplomacy” by Ankara.


21.06.2022 / 10:18

At the end of his presidency, Barack Obama eulogized Elie Wiesel as “one of the great moral voices of our time, and in many ways, the conscience of the world.”


21.02.2022 / 21:30

Advocating for justice for Cyprus in Washington, DC requires levels of commitment and stamina that most people do not appreciate.


24.01.2022 / 18:07

In 1992, the Clinton campaign adopted the tagline “It’s the economy, stupid” to identify the candidate’s signature issue.




14.03.2021 / 16:29

Over the last year, America’s streets were littered with images that would prompt one to wonder whether this was the state of nature that Thomas Hobbes wrote about.


11.01.2021 / 19:44

Last week’s attempted coup by strident supporters of President Donald Trump sullied America’s image in the world, and it also drowned out other significant news regarding American foreign policy during the Biden administration.