Name: East Mediterranean Program 2023-2025
Start: 2023-07-17
End: 2023-07-19
Location: Sheraton Istanbul City Center / İstanbul / Türkiye

In order to promote effective communications and strategic capacity through free and candid interaction in a civil and academic environment, the first event of the East Mediterranean Program is planned to be a 3-day workshop titled Security in the East Mediterranean with international Institutional participation in Istanbul (Sheraton Istanbul City Center) on the dates of 17-19 July 2023, to be held by NESA and TASAM.

Sub-Themes

Great Powers’ Relations and Competition

Counter-Terrorism and Asymmetric Threats

Open and Independent Common Domains

US Security Engagement and Assurance Vision

Regional Powers and Governance of Competition

Economic Development, Political Stability and Regional Cooperation

Arab - Israeli Peace Process

Cyprus

Climate Change, Economy and Energy Security

Contact

Verda Ş. KARAGÖZ
Phone	+90 212 635 61 51
E-mail	verdasensoy@tasam.org

Address

Sheraton Istanbul City Center / İstanbul / Türkiye

Activity Documents

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Vision Document

Article

The Region’s Middle Powers’ Quest for a New Security Order

Earlier this month, three leaders stood together in Islam's holiest city and signed a document that became a headline. The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, sealed by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, commits each...;

TASAM Institutional

Strategic Vision Document | Türkiye Geospatial Intelligence Symposium

The first Türkiye Geospatial Intelligence Symposium will be held in Istanbul, in international format, on 19–20 November 2026, organized in cooperation with Istanbul Esenyurt University, the TASAM National Defence and Security Institute (MSGE), and the General Directorate of Mapping (Ministry of Nat...;

Article

Beyond Brotherhood: The Strategic Imperative for a Türkiye-Pakistan Mutual Defence Pact

The relations between Pakistan and Turkiye have been described as “Two Nations One Soul”. There is no denying the fact that both nations share linguistic, cultural, and civilizational affinities but the rapidly evolving regional geopolitics demands more than just symbolic rhetoric. Pakistan-Türkiye...;

Article

Beyond Brotherhood: The Strategic Imperative for a Türkiye-Pakistan Mutual Defence Pact

Article

"From Natural Rights to Institutional Justice: Enlightenment, and Political Order”

Global Enlightenment is often remembered for its language of universal rights and rational progress. Yet the harder question is how a society moves from good ideas about justice to systems that make justice dependable. ;

Article

NATO's Climate Agenda: A Transformation in Security Thinking or an Institutional Contradiction?

NATO summits are typically dominated by discussions on defence spending, military capabilities and deterrence against Russia. Yet a quieter transformation has been unfolding within the Alliance's official documents. Climate change is no longer treated as a peripheral environmental issue but as a str...;

Article

China Is Building an Intake Architecture for Sanctioned Russian Arctic LNG

The Arctic is increasingly becoming a laboratory for the interaction between sanctions, energy security, maritime logistics and great-power competition. One of the clearest examples is the emerging China-Russia Arctic LNG relationship. Western sanctions have sharply constrained Russia’s Arctic LNG 2...;

Article

China-Russia Arctic Energy Cooperation: Opportunity or a Convergence of Risks?

In recent years, the Arctic has become a central arena not only in the context of climate change, melting sea ice, and new maritime routes, but also in terms of energy geopolitics and great-power competition. One of the most striking examples of this transformation is China-Russia;