Tag: Politics and International Relations

Islamist Transformations of Ottoman History, Culture and Literature: Between Scholarship and Politics

This is a guest post by Kemal Silay, author of Origins of the Ottoman Dynasty: A Philological Exploration of Its Earliest Account Whether wholeheartedly embraced by the modern Turkish generation (or even by Turkish historiography itself) or not, Turkey’s Ottoman…

SOFT POWER AND ALL THE TOOLS OF STATECRAFT Dr. Geoff Heriot

No longer geographically remote from the principal theatres of great power confrontation, Australia is adapting to the uncomfortable possibility of being a ‘front line state’. Increasingly, foreign policy analysts call on the government to apply an ‘all tools of statecraft’…