Russia’s Use Of The Montreux Convention As A Factor In Its New Policy Toward Turkey In the wake of the Russian-Georgian hostilities over the territory of South Ossetia, NATO in order to demonstrate its growing presence in the Black Sea and express support to Georgia, a potential NATO member, sent a small flotilla of warships through the Turkish Straits in the late August. According to a Turkish official, “The Americans are politically backing Georgia. This may have been a flag show off which is quite normal in international relations.” The flotilla included three American warships and support vessels from Spain, Germany and Poland...

Think Tanks and the Future of Cooperation Among Turkey, Israel, and Azerbaijan Think tanks played a key role in the development of cooperation between Western Europe and the United States after World War II, not only surviving as incubators of new ideas but places in which people from the various countries involved could meet and discuss the nature of their relationships. Now, many people believe that think tanks in Turkey, Israel, and Azerbaijan, despite all the differences in the epistemic communities in these three countries could play a similar role in promoting a strategic partnership among them...