Israel is rudderless, and Washington is going down with the ship
Wednesday 28-August-2024
An overtly racist state heralded as the Middle East’s ‘only democracy’, Israel faces an identity crisis with potentially catastrophic regional implications.
Taha Ozhan is an academic and writer based in Turkey. He holds a PhD in politics and international relations and is currently research director at the Ankara Institute. He was an academic visitor at Oxford University (2019-20), served as chairman of the Turkish parliament's foreign affairs committee (2015-18), and was a senior adviser to the Turkish prime minister (2014-16). He has published on global and regional politics, political and IR theory, and political movements in the Middle East. His latest book is Turkey and the Crisis of Sykes-Picot Order (2015).