"Son yıllarda dünyanın farklı bölgelerindeki sağcı, baskıcı ve yozlaşmış siyasal iktidarların, büyük ölçüde solcular tarafından sol hareketler içinde geliştirilmiş anti-kolonyal (sömürgecilik-karşıtı) teorileri... kullanmaları giderek daha fazla... eleştiriliyor." birikimdergisi.com/guncel/12514...

Post-kolonyalizm, Dünya Dekolonizasyon Forumu ve Sol - Barış Ünlü

Sol, anti-kolonyalizm sayesinde modern tarihte şiddetin, ırkçılığın ve gaspın rolünü daha iyi kavradı. Solun artık bunlar yokmuş veya görece önemsizmiş gibi davranma şansı, eğer küresel olarak inandır...

birikimdergisi.com

"'The fact that we can even talk of a trillionaire ... is a variable in explaining why hyperpolitics on the right thrives and why hyperpolitics on the left has found it much more difficult to achieve tangible results.'" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Meet the man whose groundbreaking book is being devoured by the left

Anton Jäger has been lauded for his exceptional ability to make sense of these strange political times – and he’s only 32. The writer and academic explains why we’re living in an age of hyperpolitics

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"With a new Prime Minister... joining the DSRB as a founding member would be an early, concrete signal of intent, and one that fits the incoming administration’s agenda: defence-industrial finance flows to the regions where Britain builds ships, submarines, and munitions..."

How can Britain construct a European pillar within NATO?

The Big Ask | No.26.2026

britainsworld.org.uk

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/andy...

Andy Burnham needs to fix a weakened Foreign Office | Institute for Government

A Foreign Office in turmoil cannot deliver the prime minister’s foreign policy priorities.

instituteforgovernment.org.uk

ogultuna.substack.com/p/understand... "...the four founders of the movement were not ethnic Turks but two Kurds, an Albanian, and a Circassian. The observation prompted a familiar kind of debate: Who exactly were the Young Turks?"

Understanding the Young Turks: A Reading Guide

A reading guide inspired by a recent viral debate—and why the history of the Young Turks is far more complex than social media polemics and much of the existing historiography suggest.

ogultuna.substack.com

I had the privilege of presenting my book on Turkey and the Liberal International Order at LSE. Thanks to Katerina Dalacoura for chairing and to Senem Aydın-Düzgit and Ayla Göl for their generous and thought-provoking comments. You can listen to the discussion here: soundcloud.com/lsemiddleeas...

Turkey and the Liberal International Order: Hegemony, Contestation and the Politics of Articulation since 1919

The LSE Middle East Centre hosted the launch of 'Turkey and the Liberal International Order', a new book examining Turkey’s complex and evolving relationship with the liberal international order from

soundcloud.com

Working with @unisontheunion.bsky.social, I’ve heard first-hand about the profound impact this would have. These people are the load bearing walls of our care system. They came here to help our most vulnerable. This country owes them more than it’s ever given them.

‘Cruel’ is a perfect description for these plans. Proposals to double the time it takes for migrant care workers to qualify for permanent settlement will throw lives into doubt.

In 1908 the Lancet called for an 18+ age limit on reading in bed for U.K. children.

My piece for @liberalcurrents.com on how it's political rhetoric and policies stoking division in communities which has led to recent riots, not migrants. Pushing harsher immigration policies, and further undermining people's rights, only fuels the far right. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-violence...

The Violence on the Streets of the UK is About Political Rhetoric, Not Migration

These riots are about race politics, not concerns rooted in reality.

liberalcurrents.com

In this volume edited by Omer Atagenc, historical tracks regarding ideational and policy preferences of Kemalist movements in Turkey are analyzed. I contributed with a chapter on cold War Era revisions to Kemalism. If you are a scholar of Turkish polity you should check the book.

Ali Acikgoz@aliacikgoz.bsky.social · last yr.

İyi pazarlar, benim de ortanın solu tartışmaları ve Kemalizm meselesine dair yazımla katkı verdiğim bu kitabı edininiz, okuyunuz, tavsiye ederim.

rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/2026/05/28/u...

UK Public Opinion and National Security

While the UK government has spent the last year heralding a ‘national conversation’ on defence and security, it seems to have little interest in hearing from the British public on how it views its …

rethinkingsecurity.org.uk

UK Space Command's Major General Paul Tedman says "data is the coin of the realm in space operations" as the UK's new Borealis space awareness system goes live six months ahead of schedule. https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-space-threat-detection-system-operational-six-months-early/

UK space threat detection system operational six months early

UK Space Command's Major General Paul Tedman says "data is the coin of the realm in space operations" as the UK's new Borealis space awareness system goes live six months ahead of schedule.

ukdefencejournal.org.uk

"...post-kolonyalizm, evrenselciliği çabucak kenara iterek her evrensel iddiayı Batı’nın tahakküm arzusuna, her ortak norm arayışını kolonyal bir dayatmaya, her genel ilke teklifini de gizli bir iktidar operasyonuna indirgemeye müsait bir dil üretti." birikimdergisi.com/guncel/12455...

Post-Kolonyal Teorinin İslamcı Muhipleri: Kültürel İktidarı Tercüme Etmek - Tunahan Yıldız

Bu yazıda göstermek istediğim, Türkiye İslamcılığının post-kolonyal teoriyle kurduğu daha geniş evren. Türkiye İslamcılığının post-kolonyal teori ithalatı, iktidar elitlerinin post-kolonyal teoriye ya...

birikimdergisi.com

"While framing liberal universalism as imperialist, they remain embedded within neoliberal structures and embrace a market universalism in tandem with claims of cultural particularity."

canan coskan@canancoskan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Much much needed contribution! "...erosion of the legitimacy of liberal orders renders the anti-colonial language available for authoritarian and conservative projects in both the Global South and North to articulate a selective rejection of universalism." academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

If you want to know how and why we've ended up in a situation where tens of thousands of people rally in support of a far-right influencer, backed by wealthy North American fascists, I just wrote a book about it. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

If We Tolerate This: How the British establishment made the far right respectable

How the British establishment made the far right respectable

uk.bookshop.org

@cerianbond.bsky.social of the Centre for European Reform, a think-tank devoted to making the EU work better, has warned a Farage clause will cloud any fresh start and probably would be a waste of time as a Prime Minister Farage would simply refuse to pay any financial compensation. buff.ly/gsdnros

Labour losses rattle EU reset

Global power is in flux. Your daily guide to what comes next.

politico.com

This is a really brilliant critique on how progressive parties have chose to forsake political conviction pandering to anti-immigrant racist sentiments of some voters.

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 3mo ago

politicians & press alike insist we can never tell anti-immigrant voters they're wrong—but they are, & we should! my latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-r...

"There is little to no statistical relationship between Reform performance and Labour performance, but a very strong (negative) relationship between Labour and Green performance." @patrick-pme.bsky.social

Local elections analysis: Labour struggled more versus the Greens than Reform

Locals give fresh evidence on how the 2024 Labour coalition is breaking apart

patrickenglish.substack.com

See you in Oxford Thursday www.politics.ox.ac.uk/event/cyril-...

Cyril Foster Lecture 2026: ‘Gaza, the Humanisation of War, and the Politics of International Law’

politics.ox.ac.uk

"For Cyprus, it may be more useful to consider incorporating the EU solidarity clause into a strategy for resolving the Cyprus issue, one that would involve Turkey rather than exclude it." en.politis.com.cy/politics/100...

How Much Patience Does Guterres Have With Cyprus?

In a sombre political atmosphere ahead of the May parliamentary elections, the President of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides, announced that the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has “launched a ne...

en.politis.com.cy

Interesting RUSI piece on how global supply-chain insecurity can become a political vulnerability: external actors may exploit disruption by amplifying or aligning with populist movements, while populists use scarcity and insecurity to build anti-democratic narratives.

RUSI@rusi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

'As a supply chain crisis, war shares common features with pandemics and debt crises, albeit potentially more severe. Shared features there may be, but from the beginning of the War, the Gulf appeared as different.' writes David Roche in the latest RUSI Commentary.

This is so obvious and the fact it's not clearly understood and accepted in public discourse says a lot about the derelict state of our democracy and how it suits those in positions of power

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We must stand in solidarity with Jews being attacked by antisemitic criminals and terrorists: no ifs or buts. We must stand in solidarity with Palestinians being murdered by the Israeli government: no ifs or buts. These are not contradictory positions. They are consistent ones. 🧵1/5

'Berlin may give up on FCAS’s flagship pillar but alternatives that will deliver the capability the Luftwaffe needs and fulfil industrial hopes will be difficult to find', write Christoph Bergs and Dr Linus Terhorst in the latest RUSI Commentary.

FCAS: France and Germany’s Fight for a Future Fighter

Berlin may give up on FCAS’s flagship pillar but alternatives that will deliver the capability the Luftwaffe needs and fulfil industrial hopes will be difficult to find.

bit.ly

after a long wait, our forum article on the uses and abuses of the anticolonial in global reactionary politics is finally online! academic.oup.com/ips/article/... for the IPS @20 special issue

Read Robab Vaziri trace the dilemma between theocracy and monarchy to the history of foreign intervention into Iran, arguing that that prospects of Iranian democracy and Iranian socialism are deeply intertwined. spectrejournal.com/toward-an-ir...

Toward an Iranian Socialism – Spectre Journal

Robab Vaziri traces the dilemma between theocracy and monarchy to the history of imperial intervention, arguing for a democratic and socialist Iran.

spectrejournal.com

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

📌 ICYMI — From Coal Tip to Clean Energy: The UK Projects Turning Former Mines Into Renewable Powerhouses Solar farms, wind turbines and geothermal heat pumps are breathing new life into former collieries. So why don't we hear more about them?

From Coal Tip to Clean Energy: The UK Projects Turning Former Mines Into Renewable Powerhouses

Solar farms, wind turbines and geothermal heat pumps are breathing new life into former collieries. So why don't we hear more about them?

bylinetimes.com

Some of the imagery coming down from the Artemis II crew is breathtaking...