ASEAN’s energy future crisis and structural risk are not something that can be solved on the supply-side alone. What it requires is an end-to-end system solution by technology, policy, finance, governance, and regional solidarity. By Mehmet Enes Beşer ASEAN member countries’ energy industries are changing as a result of rising demand, decarbonization requirements, and complex geopolitics. While the region is ...
Interview with Dr. Mostafa Najafi, a political affairs expert By Azar Mahdavan, from Tehran / Iran The recent war between Iran on the one hand and the United States and Israel on the other is not merely a military confrontation at the regional level. It is also an event that has carried significant consequences for Iran’s domestic politics and the ...
Main political events in Türkiye in the last week. The Turkish public is closely following in and regarding Iran, like the rest of the world. Last week, an extraordinary meeting was held in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, with the participation of Türkiye and Gulf countries to address the situation in Iran. In the Joint Statement after the meeting, ...
A Strategic Constant By Mehmet Enes Beşer Whereas elsewhere in this new world order friendships of old are being broken and the international system is increasingly marked by suspicion, the relationship between China and Russia has held firm. Failing short of a marriage of convenience, the emerging China–Russia strategic partnership rests upon pragmatism, strategic mutual trust, and a vision for ...
Repeating History from Hungary to Taiwan First published on the website “mavivatan.com” The year 1956 stands as one of the major breaking points in modern geopolitics. The Suez Crisis began on July 19, 1956, when the United States withdrew financing for the Aswan Dam in Egypt. It escalated on July 26, when Egypt’s revolutionary leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the ...
Solar plants on a large scale are prone to land disputes, especially where there are uncertain tenure status or indigenous communities. By Mehmet Enes Beşer The ASEAN region boasts some of the finest solar irradiation in the world, offering a geographical advantage in tapping solar power to meet its rapidly growing energy needs. With Southeast Asian economies industrializing, urbanizing, and ...
It is comforting to see Trump as a buffoon, to accept the facade he presents of a blustering and ill-educated ignoramus, who swings wildly between policy options, and who does not understand the world of geopolitics. But that is nonsense. By Craig Murray What if Trump’s apparently chaotic thought processes and intuitive decision making are all a blind, a charade? ...
Interview with Wes J. Bryant, a former Pentagon analyst and combat veteran. By Yunus Emre Özgün The “rules-based international order” is dead. It has not been dismantled by foreign adversaries, but systemically destroyed by its self-proclaimed architects. As the Middle East teeters on the edge of a regional conflagration sparked by Israeli strikes on Iran’s South Pars gas field and ...
New threats emerging from both Israeli and US media and Israeli politicians targeting Türkiye. Turkish experts explain their goals. As the United States and Israel continue their attacks on Iran, political and media voices from these countries are claiming that “Türkiye is the new Iran”. Although at a lower level, Israel and Türkiye maintain diplomatic relations. But threats are coming ...
China–US impasse is not the product of inevitability—it is the result of political inertia, domestic pressures, and a misplaced understanding of interdependence. By Mehmet Enes Beşer In a climate of growing tensions and mounting rhetoric, China–US relations look more precarious by the minute. From tech controls and trade wars to ideological sparring and geostrategic posturing, both countries have been caught ...
The speech of Beatriz Bissio at the forum ‘Epstein and the Bottomless Depravity of the Elites – Urgent Need for a Cultural Renaissance!’ By Beatriz Bissio, Associate Professor in the Postgraduate Program of Comparative History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro The Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) organized an online forum on March 2, 2026, titled “Epstein and the Bottomless Depravity ...
A perspective from Egypt. Day after day, it becomes clearer to everyone that the war the United States and Israel are waging against Iran is not an easy walk or a swift military campaign. While the battles rage, the scope of the war expands, discontent grows, oil and gas prices are exploding, and fears of a severe inflationary wave are ...