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On NATO Expansion, Overrule Turkey

On NATO Expansion, Overrule Turkey
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L), NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (C) and Sweden's Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson take part in a meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Madrid, on June 28, 2022. Erdogan has refused to greenlight the applications from Sweden and Finland despite calls from his NATO allies to clear the path for them to enter. Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images
Anders Corr
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Turkey is being difficult. At a time of war, and when Sweden and Finland have finally agreed to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Ankara is using thin excuse after thin excuse to bar the aspirations of these two strategically-located Scandinavian democracies.
Anders Corr
Anders Corr
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Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea" (2018).
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