Alp Sevimlisoy

Alp Sevimlisoy is an internationally published geopolitical strategist & national security expert on NATO’s role within the Mediterranean, focusing on regional unionism and defense policy and a Millennium Fellow at the Atlantic Council headquartered in Washington, DC. Alp Sevimlisoy’s opinion-editorials have been regularly published in The Hill, in The National Interest, South China Morning Post, Real Clear Defense and Israel Hayom. Alp Sevimlisoy has been featured by Newsweek, the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, Politico, the National Journal, Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and the Centre for the National Interest (CFTNI). He has also published extensively on the role for a unified Mediterranean Command Structure within NATO. Alp Sevimlisoy is also the CEO of his flagship private asset management corporation & hedge-fund headquartered in Istanbul. He has served as an advisory board member at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass Business School).

Secular Nationalism: The ‘Cure’ for Middle East Sectarianism

President Sadat at the Israeli Knesset, public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&redirs=0&search=sadat&fulltext=Search&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns14=1&title=Special:Search&advanced=1&fulltext=Advanced%20search#/media/File:Sadat_knesset_1977.jpg

Secular nationalism once represented a stabilizing force across the Middle East. It can still play that role in the modern context.

The New Cold War and the Rebirth of the Baghdad Pact

USAF F-4s on an airbase in Iran, 1977 - cc USAF, modified - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Pact#/media/File:F-4Es_50th_TFW_in_Iran_1977.JPEG

With the current geopolitical landscape bearing a closer resemblance to the Cold War with each passing day, perhaps it’s time to revisit Cold War-era regional alliances, starting with the Baghdad Pact.

The Geopolitics of Water Conflict in the Middle East

cc Alen Ištoković, modified, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Euphrates_river_-_panoramio.jpg

The most coveted strategic commodity in the Middle East will one day be water, not oil, and NATO strategists would do well to bear this in mind.

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