Between national pride and global inspiration on the one side and exposing geopolitical fault lines and reimposing tensions on the other, good management is clue. By Mehmet Enes Beşer Electronic sport (esports) has reshaped global competition dynamics, youth culture, and national pride. None is more vividly shown than in Southeast Asia, with a young, digitally native generation embracing competitive gaming ...

On the document titled “Overall Concept of Military Defense: Military Strategy and Plans for the Armed Forces, Responsibility for Europe” released by the German Ministry of Defense Europe is rearming. Countries, economies, and societies are being fundamentally reshaped to align with this new reality. The latest move has come from Germany. The document titled “Overall Concept of Military Defense: Military ...

Vision, Strategy, and Regional Realities By Mehmet Enes Beşer Over the last few years, China has been marketing the vision of a “Community of Shared Future” (命运共同体, mingyun gongtongti) as part of the support columns of foreign policy rhetoric. First articulated by President Xi Jinping amidst controversy about evolving world governance, the vision has since been extended to regional domains, ...

From Gaza to Iran, AI is applied increasingly. By Mohammad Reza Moradi, General Director of Mehr News Agency’s Foreign Languages and International News Department, from Tehran / Iran Recent military developments indicate that warfare has entered a new phase—one in which the “speed of data processing” is as decisive as “firepower.” In the past, military superiority was measured by troop ...

Interview with energy expert Necdet Pamir. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has triggered one of the biggest shocks in global energy markets in decades. Nearly one-fifth of the world’s oil trade and a substantial share of liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments normally pass through the narrow waterway between Iran and Oman. As tensions in the Gulf escalated and ...

To move on from passive reception to active cultural tourism, Thailand must approach entertainment as a field not as a sideline but a column of national engagement. By Mehmet Enes Beşer Glamorous Thai television dramas, music, and pop idols have in recent years moved in quietly to emerge as an expanding cultural phenomenon in Asia. The impact has largely been ...

Notes from a roundtable discussion at the Center for Iranian Studies in Türkiye. The war, which began with the US-Israeli attack on Iran on February 28, 2026, is currently in a period of ceasefire. What follows remains highly uncertain. A process full of fluctuations and contradictions continues to unfold. What is certain, however, we are at a stage to be ...

Dr. Gilbert Doctorow on the Shattering of the Transatlantic Order By Yunus Emre Özgün As Donald Trump’s foreign policy shatters his domestic base and the European Union morphs into an unaccountable “war project,” the geopolitical tectonic plates of the West are fracturing. In an interview with UWI Data, renowned historian and international affairs analyst Dr. Gilbert Doctorow diagnoses the civil ...

Ambition Is Not Enough Without Enforcement By Mehmet Enes Beşer Vietnam is the top nation most likely to become the world’s greatest champion of making plastic pollution a pending threat. Producing over 3.9 million tons of plastic rubbish annually, and the majority of it running into rivers, coastlines, and eventually the ocean, the problem has been a public health emergency ...

Seven strategic lessons the war taught and the questions that remain. The American empire seems to be sinking deeper into a quagmire of war with Iran, with only bad options on the horizon. Donald Trump is now being urged to resolve this disaster as quickly as possible. Perhaps the decisive factor is that the war has begun to strain the ...

Under the current circumstances, the US’ sanction threats amount to empty rhetoric only. A new system has been built, and it will grow even stronger with the participation of numerous countries following the war in Iran. By Serhat Latifoğlu The threat by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent by sending letters to 2 Chinese banks threatening sanctions if Iranian money found ...

Diversification, institutional transformation, and human development investment are not yet an option—they are a requirement. By Mehmet Enes Beşer Cambodia comes to a juncture in its development journey. Three decades of rapid GDP growth led by garments, construction, and tourism have ended, and Cambodia now confronts a daunting set of domestic and international challenges. Its near-term economic goals—to become an ...