By Mehmet Enes Beşer For years, China’s climate politics could be summed up in a tidy formula: promise long-term ambition, protect short-term stability. “Carbon neutrality by 2060” became the headline. Coal, industrial jobs, and local government revenue stayed in the fine print. That formula is still there—but the balance inside it is shifting. Not because Beijing suddenly “discovered” climate risk ...
Claude Janvier, author and political analyst, France The international conference entitled “The Alliance to Prevent a Great War,” organized by the World Civilizations Initiative Research Center, was held at the Meyra Palace Hotel in Ankara on 18–19 July 2026. UWI will present the speeches held on the conference during the coming days. The conference, which featured presentations by speakers from ...
The recent NATO summit celebrated in Türkiye’s capital city of Ankara has brought a number of changes for the alliance, regarding militarization, defense spending, more aggressive posture both towards Russia and West Asia. These are continuations and radicalizations of already taken steps within the alliance. In the framework of the summit and beyond, the host country, Türkiye, has agreed to ...
By Yener Güneş Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the Bundestag has, for the second time, rejected an official visit to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) planned by AfD deputies Achim Köhler and Maximilian Krah, both member of the Commission. Köhler and Krah stated that the Bundestag had rejected the initial request because the invitation had ...
By Larry C. Johnson, Former CIA Analyst The international conference entitled “The Alliance to Prevent a Great War,” organized by the World Civilizations Initiative Research Center, was held at the Meyra Palace Hotel in Ankara on 18–19 July 2026. UWI will present the speeches held on the conference during the coming days. The conference, which featured presentations by speakers from ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer The reason why South Koreans think of the United States as an ally is because of history, deterrence, and geography. However, it should be recalled that an alliance is more than just flags and treaties. They’re judged by predictability. And on that score, frictions can resurface at any point: a U.S. election swing, a sudden “burden-sharing” ...
By Francesco Cosimato The international conference entitled “The Alliance to Prevent a Great War,” organized by the World Civilizations Initiative Research Center, was held at the Meyra Palace Hotel in Ankara on 18–19 July 2026. UWI will present the speeches held on the conference during the coming days. The conference, which featured presentations by speakers from Azerbaijan, Belarus, France, Germany, ...
By Azar Mahdavan, from Tehran / Iran Following the two recent wars imposed on Iran and Washington’s latest breach of commitment by withdrawing from the “Islamabad Understanding,” Iranian public opinion on negotiations has become more closely tied than ever to questions of trust, security and national interests. In an interview with Mohammad Sarfi, editor-in-chief of the Tehran Times, we examined ...
By Scott Ritter The international conference entitled “The Alliance to Prevent a Great War,” organized by the World Civilizations Initiative Research Center, was held at the Meyra Palace Hotel in Ankara on 18–19 July 2026. UWI will present the speeches held on the conference during the coming days. The conference, which featured presentations by speakers from Azerbaijan, Belarus, France, Germany, ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer ASEAN has spent much of its life doing a particular kind of political magic: holding a diverse region together by refusing to pretend its members are the same. Different systems, different threat perceptions, different economic models—yet a shared habit of consultation. For decades, the “ASEAN way” wasn’t a punchline. It was a practical technology for preventing ...