Why Turkey’s Coup d’État Failed

Why Turkey’s Coup d’État Failed

And why Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s craven excesses made it so inevitable.

By Edward Luttwak
July 16, 2016
Why Turkey’s Coup d’État Failed

Rule No. 2 in planning a successful military coup is that any mobile forces that are not part of the…[Read more]

Positiver und Negativer Frieden: Ein Schaubild aus: “50 Years 25 Intellectual Landscapes Explored” p.130 [ https://www.galtung-institut.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/TUP-FLYER.pdf ]

Dear participants, the assignment is:

“Five Regions in Asia – South of Russia: How wouldthey relate to each other?”
Attached is Niamh’s map trying to outline the regions.

With regards to the task, the whole exercise of looking at the 5 ASIAS is one of looking into the rationale of macro-political and macro-territorial REGIONAL Integration. In…[Read more]

Morning Luke and Team,

Thanks for the engaging response.

I’m just looking at all my readings today, trying to comb through any other angles we could / should include in Political (and military for Liam and I).

Political therapy – key ideas: Brexit, Grexit, Gender and PfP. I made the wrong assumption on the circumstances of Brexit previously -…[Read more]

Hi Luke and Team

Just checking …

On the 1st point in Political therapy “Form a united European federation (consisting of a European Central Government including Russian representation) with economic and fiscal union and security functions….”
Should we opt for federation or confederation?
William Safire 30 September, 1991 on “the differenc…[Read more]

Hi Liam and Team

In general, I find that the European house is playing smart by:
1. joining the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) —in the process clearly showing its ability to be defiant to USA when it chooses so, and persistent to having strong hold (aka capitalist colonialism) over the countries which AIIB is the sponsor t…[Read more]