Thailand Must Rethink Its Carbon Offset Strategy to Achieve Real Climate Progress

So long as offsets substitute for real emission reductions and not add to them, Thailand risks falling short of not only its climate targets, but also its reputation as a climate leader. By Mehmet Enes Beşer As climate change becomes more intensifying in Southeast Asia, Thailand is being asked more and more to sharpen its country-level response. The country has ...

Iran: The success story of a defense industry independent from the U.S.

What Türkiye can learn from Iran’s victory. UWI author, historian and political scientist Associate Professor Mehmet Perinçek was guest on Radio Sputnik, to evaluate the impact of the US/Israel–Iran war on global balances. “The US has fallen behind where it started in Iran” Perinçek emphasized that the US has failed to achieve its objectives in the war militarily, economically, and ...

The changing regime in Washington

Interview with Jon B. Alterman, Senior Vice President of the U.S. Center for Strategic and International Studies Regime change in Teheran or in Washington? Though Washington declared regime change in Iran as one of its goals, many see more the change of regime in the U.S. capital.  While the US-Israeli war against Iran is on a halt fragile halt due ...

Vietnam’s Energy Diplomacy

A Missing Pillar in Mekong Sustainability Strategy By Mehmet Enes Beşer Southeast Asia’s most lifeblood river, the Mekong, is being confronted with increasingly intense ecological and geopolitical stresses. Hydropower dams, especially on the upper Mekong, have controlled its flow, disturbed ecosystems, and compromised the food and water security of millions. Vietnam, located at the river’s delta and therefore most vulnerable ...

How Will the KMT Leader’s Visit to China Affect Beijing-Taipei Relations?

Can U.S. influence on the island be broken? By Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / China While the world has been focused on imperialist-Zionist aggression against Iran, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the US-Iran talks held in Islamabad, and the uncertain ceasefire agenda, Cheng Li-Wun, leader of Taiwan’s main opposition party Kuomintang (KMT), completed a six-day visit to China. ...

Living space and hinterland: The territorial architecture of Greater North America and its consequences for Our America

Critical minerals, pentagonal diplomacy, the Anglo-Saxon axis in the South Atlantic By Prof. Dr. Fernando Esteche “All the geography that matters north of the equator is ours. What lies south of the equator is your responsibility, in partnership with us and other Western nations.” — Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War, SOUTHCOM, Doral, Florida, March 30, 2026 “Reassert and enforce” the ...

What Drives or Delays Sustainable Energy Technology Adoption in ASEAN

ASEAN’s challenge is not so much to introduce additional clean hardware, but to create the enabling environments—legal, financial, social, and regional. By Mehmet Enes Beşer Transition to sustainable energy technologies is not just a technical matter for ASEAN countries—it is a political, structural, and economic reorientation of development itself. From solar photovoltaics to premium biofuels, from geothermal power plants to ...

The Iran War and the Collapse of the Traditional Concept of Power!

How did the war shift from the stage of “how to win it” to the stage of “how to get out of it”? By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist The talks held in Islamabad under Pakistan’s mediation were, in fact, less a ceasefire negotiation and more of a probing process in which both sides gauged each other’s intentions.The topics discussed, aside ...

Debate over new amendments to the military service law in Germany: “The threat is not outside, but within our country”

Posted by by United World International 13 Min Read April 14, 2026 By Can Çakır, from Germany Germany continues to debate over “mandatory military service”. But there is something new: requirement for men aged 17–45 to obtain permission for trips abroad lasting longer than three months. According to the law that came into effect on January 1, men aged 17–45 ...

Iranian politician to UWI: Iran entered negotiations with the upper hand; the U.S. must separate its national interests from the interests of the Zionist regime

Interview with Seyyed Abbas Mousavi, the deputy chief of staff of the Iranian presidential office and former spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs By Azar Mahdavan, from Tehran / Iran After 40 days of all-out war and reaching a ceasefire position, we witnessed inconclusive negotiations between the Iranian and American sides in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. Although ...

China–Brunei Relations on the Path of Quiet Progress

Charting a Steady Course By Mehmet Enes Beşer In a world of growing international uncertainty, Beijing–Bandar Seri Begawan’s low-profile upgrading is the best proof of the potency of pragmatism, mutual respect for the other, and of interests in it. Less high-profile than some other of China’s neighborhood-of-choice relationships, the Beijing–Bandar Seri Begawan one is actually becoming stronger and consolidating itself ...

“First task is to defend international institutions as vigorously as possible”

Speech of Donald Ramotar, former president of Guyana, at the forum “Epstein and the Bottomless Depravity of the Elites – Urgent Need for a Cultural Renaissance!” The Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) organized an online forum on March 2, 2026, titled “Epstein and the Bottomless Depravity of the Elites – Urgent Need for a Cultural Renaissance!”. Donald Ramotar, former president of ...