Raphael Lemkin was a Polish-Jewish jurist who coined the term “genocide“ in 1944. Today, he is widely regarded as the intellectual architect of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. However, research conducted over the past two decades has demonstrated that Lemkin was not merely a legal scholar concerned with the Holocaust. An examination of ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer A small, tropical, island nation lying at the convergence of the Indian Ocean in the Maldivian chain of white beaches and turquoise water is far from the idyllic destination that tourists imagine. Instead, it represents a country that has emerged as a power player in the Indo-Pacific political landscape, with foreign policies that play an increasingly ...

The forty-day war that the United States launched against Iran on February 28, regardless of whether it reignites in the near future, has ushered in a new era in the regional security architecture of West Asia. The principal facts demonstrated by the recent war were, first, that Iran is not a country that can easily be eliminated or absorbed. Over ...

By Dr. Doğu Perinçek, Chairman of the Vatan Party, Türkiye 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 Andaç Yedigüller French historian Bernard Lugan recently made the following observation on Alain Juillet’s YouTube program: “France has become a colony of its former colonies.” Lugan was referring primarily to Algeria and Morocco, and, to a lesser extent, Tunisia. France once conquered these countries militarily, turned them into colonies, spread its language and culture, and established extensive economic and ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer Thailand’s February 2026 referendum gave the country something it rarely gets in clean form: a national signal, delivered through ballots rather than chaos, that people want the rules rewritten. Not “maybe.” Not “Bangkok-only.” Not “just the loud kids.” A real mandate. And yes, youth networks dragged this back onto the agenda. They did it the hard ...

In recent weeks, we reported on Trump’s concern about what he considers a “grave threat” to the entire American governmental system. Referring to the enemies of the system without hesitation, he defined them as Marxists and said that what they were doing was “communism, socialism, Marxist deviations that started from a premise opposed to that of the United States.” He ...

By Fatih Ceylan, Türkiye, Former Ambassador, Former Permanent Representative to NATO, Director of the Ankara Policy Center 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 ...

By Edvard Chesnokov, a parliamentary correspondent (Moscow) Roza Chemeris is a foreign policy expert and an experienced Russian politician. In 2017-21, she held a seat at the City Duma (local parliament) of Vladivostok. Since 2021, she has been serving as the deputy at the State Duma, the all-Russian parliament. There, Mrs. Chemeris is the member of the Committee on International ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer The emergence of China as the predominant supplier of critical minerals around the world represents an important factor influencing the current dynamics of global trade relations as well as economic and political issues linked to the transition to green technologies and advanced industries in many countries. Implications of China’s Export Restrictions The latest move of China’s ...