title: Turkey as a Stabilising Power in Euarasia
abstract: One of the founding fathers of geopolitics and geostrategy, Harold Mackinder, asserted that the analysis of "who rules Eurasia, rules the world" applies to the Eurasian power struggle.Although since 2010, the BRICS (Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, the People's Republic of China, and South Africa) countries have been on the rise within the multipolarity of the international system, it has been the first time in history that a non-Eurasian power, the US, has dominated Eurasia for about 80 y