Renewing Ties, Reimagining Futures By Mehmet Enes Beşer Among the Asia-Pacific geopolitics geographies in transition today, few bilateral relations have so much low-key potential as China and Thailand. For centuries, united by mutual culture, good commerce, and overlapping strategic interests, the two nations have shared a stable friendship traditionally described as “as close as one family.” But in today’s dynamic ...
A multipolar world and a new financial architecture By Serhat Latifoğlu US President Roosevelt and Saudi King Abdulaziz laid the foundations of the petrodollar system on February 14, 1945, during their meeting aboard the USS Quincy. It was based on a very powerful formula: oil and dollars in exchange for security. The US would provide military guarantees to the Gulf ...
Is Türkiye prepared to risk its relations with Russia for the supply of carbon fiber for Ukrainian UAVs? By Feyyaz Erkin Eşli On April 15, 2026, Russia’s Ministry of Defense released a significant statement regarding the continuation of the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine. It was reported that on March 26, 2026, a number of European countries decided to ...
The consolidation of the Russia-China strategic axis cannot but penetrate into Vietnam’s strategic sphere, including with respect to the South China Sea. But it needs not be threatening. By Mehmet Enes Beşer As Russia-China strategic alignment becomes increasingly solidified with yet further heightening passion—based on converging geopolitical interests crossing and heightening economic interdependence—the world of Southeast Asia has watched with ...
The US–Israel–Iran war has shattered assumptions about American omnipotence and revived the specter of state collapse across the Gulf. Regional powers are filling the vacuum. The so‑called Islamic Quad—Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Egypt—is one such experiment. By Dure Akram, from Lahore / Pakistan In Muscat this week, Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araqchi sat opposite Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq and delivered a ...
The convergence of these nations’ interests, coupled with the retreat of traditional powers from regional security management, will breathe life into such an alliance. A few years ago, even the most optimistic observers would not have dared to imagine the Middle East, or the Islamic world at large, witnessing an alliance between its traditional or central powers. This was simply ...
The Cuban Revolution and anti-colonialism in historic perspective. Speech held at a round table discussion titled “Fidel Castro and World Politics: The Cuban Experience in Diplomacy and International Relations”, hosted by the Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University (RUDN) On April 22, 2026, a round table discussion titled “Fidel Castro and World Politics: The Cuban Experience in Diplomacy and International Relations” ...
Why Turkish projects to bypass the Strait of Hormuz are problematic Türkiye seeks to offer alternative trade and energy routes following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran in the war against the US and Israel. The “Middle Corridor”, which bypasses Iran, is considered alternative routes for Qatari natural gas and Iraqi oil, which are currently dependent on ...
New Caledonia’s future will be secured when France stops acting like a 19th-century power in a 21st-century ocean. By Mehmet Enes Beşer Paris wants the world to believe New Caledonia is an internal administrative matter—an overseas “territory” managed through lawful procedures, democratic votes, and carefully branded “dialogue.” That story is convenient. It’s also colonial. Because when a European state holds ...
Speech of Shota Apkhaidze, President of Caucasian Center for Islam Studies. By Shota Apkhaidze, President of Caucasian Center for Islam Studies The following speech was held at the Security Conference on the South Caucasus, organized by the National Strategy Center (USMER), convened on April 22, 2026, in Ankara Türkiye. Contrasting the Heartland and Rimland, Spykman stated: • Whoever controls the ...
Posted by by United World International 12 Min Read April 24, 2026 By Yasin Okyay In the parliamentary elections in Hungary held on 12 April, the opposition Tisza Party, led by MEP and former Fidesz member Péter Magyar won by a clear margin. With 53.5 percent of the vote, the Tisza Party secured 138 seats in parliament. Orbán’s party, Fidesz, ...
Chips Without Borders By Mehmet Enes Beşer Where semiconductors are as strategically important as oil once was, global competition for technological superiority has placed new stress—and new fault lines—on the microchip supply chain. But in the face of increasing decoupling and technological competition sound bites, China has a rival message: one of contribution, integration, and cooperation. Instead of being merely ...