James Ker‐Lindsay
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🎧Under Erdogan, Turkey has diversified its foreign policy. What are the country's driving forces behind its external relations? Soner Cagaptay speaks with @jameskerlindsay.bsky.social about Ankara's shifting views of the West, implications for the region, and more.
Understanding Turkish Foreign Policy | Soner Çağaptay
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So true. Really, I’ve never understood why the U.K. can’t seem to make the link between tax and services (or why politicians don’t make it clear). It wants European social welfare, but has the American obsession with low tax rates.
Agreed. But maybe the sense that Labour would be committed to this course could actually shore up support from many disillusioned pro-EU voters. They would then have a real reason to make sure Labour isn’t defeated by Reform. (I know Reform winning should be enough, but I’m not sure it is.)
True. But I think there’s also a critical psychological dimension here. Yes, actually doing anything would take time. But there would be a big confidence boost if people and businesses see that the relationship is being rebuilt. Just announcing a plan for customs union would have a dramatic effect.
But listed on the Nobel Prize site as a category. So, no, not an original one, but widely accepted as one nevertheless.
There’s always one! Every year! 🙂
There’s always one! Every year! 🙂
Wait until someone tells him about the role of large scale immigration in making it all work!
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#Ireland has a truly fascinating, controversial, but often misunderstood, foreign policy history. From WWII to Ukraine, neutrality to peacekeeping, Good Friday to Brexit, Trump to Palestine. Really great to discuss all this with @bentonra.bsky.social
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Understanding Irish Foreign Policy | Ben Tonra
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All this is very reminiscent of Brexit. Every senior officer I met opposed it. They knew it would damage British interests. But they didn’t want to wade into the public political debate. Meanwhile, they were faced with the other ranks who thought it was great because it was “British independence”.
I completely agree. To my mind, this was always the one and only potential benefit of Brexit. And yet, despite a massive majority, Starmer completely failed to seize the chance.
Thanks so much. GOSH does amazing work in so many areas. Good luck!
#Moldova faces a truly critical election this weekend. Having pushed ahead with #EU membership, this could all be set back by pro-Russian parties, with help from Moscow. But why is all this happening? And why does it matter so much?
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Could Moscow Win Back Moldova?
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I haven’t stopped looking at ideas of statehood. But, to most people, it doesn’t mean much, or else sounds far too nebulous or academic. I have been tightening up videos recently, and this was just one of those changes. But ideas of statehood and governance are most definitely still there. 🙂
Maybe the UK is finally getting over its strange fear of ID cards. Living in a country where they’re required, you soon see the benefits. Frankly, general privacy is over anyway. Perhaps that’s why people now feel far more at ease about the idea than they did 20 years ago. This is tame stuff now.
Yes. It was a profoundly stupid decision based on ignorance and lies. It has done untold damage to the U.K. Sadly, while many now see the damage, others don’t and appear willing to follow Farage deeper into the mess he helped create, adopting ever more racist language. Time to stand up to them.
Lisa Nandy was always an apologist for Brexit and pandered to ordinary Leave voters. She’s not going to go against them and their views now.
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🎧Under Erdogan, Turkey has diversified its foreign policy. What are the country's driving forces behind its external relations? Soner Cagaptay speaks with @jameskerlindsay.bsky.social about Ankara's shifting views of the West, implications for the region, and more.
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Understanding Turkish Foreign Policy | Soner Çağaptay
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I’m not sure this has been really considered. (Or, it will have by the lawyers, but not publicly raised by the politicians.) Strangely, this could of course open up an implicit “nuclear” option: “If you allow Hamas into power, we recognise Israeli sovereignty.”
The problem is that recognition can’t easily be rescinded. (In fact, Lauterpacht, the leading scholar on this, said that it couldn’t, or not in a straightforward way.) It would have to lead to some sort of recognition of a sovereign authority, rather than the creation of an effective terra nullius.
#Turkey has always had to manage its relations between Europe and the West, #Russia, and the Middle East. In recent years, the balancing act has extended to Africa and Central Asia. How well has it managed? Really great talking through all this with Soner Çağaptay
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Understanding Turkish Foreign Policy | Soner Çağaptay
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"Understanding Turkish Foreign Policy" with Soner Çağaptay and @jameskerlindsay.bsky.social. [5/5]
Understanding Turkish Foreign Policy | Soner Çağaptay
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I agree. 5 was just far too few. Andor was incredible!
The only Brexit benefit that ever existed is the only one that the two main parties would never take: the ability to limit media ownership to people who are British citizens and who live in the UK. And unless you pay UK taxes, you don’t get to shape UK politics.