Why the World Must Reject Hegemony in Favor of Justice. By Mehmet Enes Beşer With the “America First” rhetoric back on the world stage, an old unease has come back to global institutions. At its core, this slogan promotes a transactional, zero-sum approach to world affairs—one where one power’s national interest takes precedence over collective responsibility. For the majority of ...

How the government, its allies and anti-imperialist forces reacted. As in the rest of the world, the war between Iran and the US-Israel topped Türkiye’s agenda. The Turkish public, almost in its entirety, is closely following and supporting Iran’s fight against the US-Israel. Officials and politicians issued several statements about the war. President Erdoğan: “Diplomacy should be given a chance” ...

Here are the balances in the strait on the brink of catastrophe and the possible military scenarios. By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist As two weeks of the conflict between the U.S./Israel and Iran have passed, it has become clear that the Strait of Hormuz is not merely a regional transit point, but the lifeblood of the global energy system. This ...

Tracing Energy and Ecology By Mehmet Enes Beşer As the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) shifts from an infrastructure-centered vision to one of increasingly more inclusive models of world development, sustainability has become a core—if contentious—pillar of legitimacy. Nowhere is this more urgent than with China’s economic relations with ASEAN countries, a strategic border region for BRI deployment. By applying ...

Interview to Azerbaijani TV channel Anews. UWI author and political scientist Onur Sinan Güzaltan was guest on the live broadcast of Azerbaijan-based Anewz TV. Güzaltan answered questions regarding the missile attacks on Türkiye. Onur Sinan Güzaltan providing the interview to Anews TV To talk about Türkiye’s response to missiles in Turkish airspace and what this could mean for the wider ...

Posted by by Mehmet Perinçek 9 Min Read March 16, 2026 Panic in Washington and Tel Aviv We are witnessing that the US and Israel have failed to achieve the objectives they had initially set at the beginning of this war. This setback has also generated a palpable sense of panic both in Washington and Tel Aviv. In many ways, ...

Franco’s long-standing dictatorship led to an even deeper sense of the social cost of the war. Consequently, anti-war sentiment in Spain emerged from lived experience. By Cemil Gözel Spain’s distanced approach to the Iran–US/Israel war has earned significant recognition, particularly in Türkiye. The Madrid administration first revealed its anti-war position with the statements of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, and soon ...

Reimagining the Founding Spirit By Mehmet Enes Beşer At a time when the global Muslim world is seeking answers to questions of governance, identity, and development, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s legacy is that he was a revolutionary—and a solitary—break with tradition. His vision of secular nationalism, institutional modernism, and uncompromising state-building remade the post-Ottoman Turkish Republic and set the world a ...

Indeed, the US and Israel have become countries that seriously threaten international peace and security. Iran’s victory in this war will both strengthen its sovereignty, territorial integrity, and political independence, and ensure that West Asia becomes a safer region. By Dr. Emre Senbabaoglu, International Law Expert On February 28, 2026, the Iran War began with the attacks launched by the ...

Interview with Yiannis Rachiotis, an international relations expert, lawyer, member of the Hellenic Union of Progressive Lawyers and the International Association of Democratic Lawyers- IADL. From Athens / Greece US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio called in his speech in the Munich Security Conference to “revive the Western Civilization”. Amid the war in West Asia, western countries are mounting up ...

Southeast Asia is not a chessboard, but a luxuriant network of diplomatic diplomacy of keen mind, and long memory. By Mehmet Enes Beşer Throughout the years of heightened strategic rivalry between China and the United States, Southeast Asia is normally portrayed as a geopolitics arena—a theater wherein the two great powers struggle over influence, domination, and strategic depth. That dyadic ...

War, Political Responsibility, and Donald Trump Imagine a world in which a political leader faces serious public controversies about his past associations yet continues to present himself as a moral authority on democracy and global order. Around the world, people question the gap between rhetoric and responsibility. The name at the center of many of these debates is Donald Trump. ...