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. ...

Balancing Growth and Sustainability By Mehmet Enes Beşer The economic development journey of ASEAN has conventionally been accounted for by the narrative of trade liberalization, manufacturing performance, and demographic dividends. But as the region is facing the double challenge of post-pandemic recovery and climate change, an even higher level of economic transformation is being outlined—one founded on financial inclusion, green ...

Defense spending, fascism and risks on social security. By Mitsuko Sakagami, from Japan Published in Shiso-Undo, March 2026 The fiscal policy of the TAKAICHI Sanae administration is said to be a revival of “Abenomics” by the former prime minister ABE Shinzo, but the situation has changed significantly. Abenomics was built on the “three arrows”—monetary easing, fiscal stimulus, and growth strategy—but ...

Interview with Dr. Daryoush Sefarnejad, an academic and expert on international affairs By Azar Mahdavan, from Tehran / Iran “You will end up helpless.” This is a phrase often quoted from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s former leader, in reference to the United States and Israel. Now, more than ten days after the start of military confrontations involving Iran, the United ...