{"id":12681,"date":"2020-10-23T16:15:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T23:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12681"},"modified":"2020-10-23T16:15:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T23:15:48","slug":"strategika-68-crisis-in-the-eastern-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-68-crisis-in-the-eastern-mediterranean\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategika #68: Crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Turkey In The Eastern Mediterranean Crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague, Soner Cagaptay\u00a0in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Three wars that Turkey is currently involved in, namely in Syria, Libya, and the South Caucasus, suggest that Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan\u2019s foreign policy has settled into a new phase. Erdo\u011fan is building a \u201cmini Empire\u201d by\u2014often\u2014simultaneously fighting and power- brokering with his Russian homologue, and to this end the Eastern Mediterranean provides ample opportunities for him.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/turkey-eastern-mediterranean-crisis\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It\u2019s Not The Energy, Stupid!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague, Zafiris Rossidis in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, with the strong presence of American, Russian, French, Greek, Turkish, Egyptian, Italian, and even German warships, the Eastern Mediterranean has become one of the most militarized seas in the world.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/its-not-energy-stupid\">Read the full article here.<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crisis In The Eastern Mediterranean<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleagues, Barry Strauss in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Eastern Mediterranean, like the Middle East, is a tough neighborhood. The current standoff over natural gas rights among Greece, Turkey, and their respective allies is only the latest example.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/crisis-eastern-mediterranean\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey In The Eastern Mediterranean Crisis Please read a new essay by my colleague, Soner Cagaptay\u00a0in Strategika. Three wars that Turkey is currently involved in, namely in Syria, Libya, and the South Caucasus, suggest that Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan\u2019s foreign policy has settled into a new phase. Erdo\u011fan is building a \u201cmini Empire\u201d by\u2014often\u2014simultaneously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3ix","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12150,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-issue-62-is-the-mediterranean-still-geo-strategically-essential\/","url_meta":{"origin":12681,"position":0},"title":"Strategika Issue 62: Is the Mediterranean Still Geo-strategically Essential?","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 16, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Is The Mediterranean Still Geo-Strategically Essential? 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