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 ...

Harnessing the Sun By Mehmet Enes Beşer Basking in the sunshine, increasing electric demand, and international pressure building to transition to cleaner energy, ASEAN is well-placed to emerge as a solar power leader. On Philippine rooftops, on rolling central Vietnamese plains, solar photovoltaics (PV) is one of the most promising green growth paths forward. But with this dormant potential, solar ...

Evaluations of Turkish retired Rear Admiral Cem Gürdeniz and former Ambassador Halil Akıncı Cem Gürdeniz, a retired Rear Admiral of the Turkish Navy and one of the coiners of the term “Blue Homeland” (Mavi Vatan) shared his views on the developments in the Strait of Hormuz on the social platform X. We present Gürdeniz’s analysis, translated into English. — A ...

Posted by by United World International 16 Min Read March 11, 2026 On February 28, the US and Israel launched an assault on Iran. The whole world’s gaze is on Iran. Iran has become the number one agenda also in Europe. While the European Union and its leading member states have backed the assault on Iran, a wide array of ...

How has the rapid transformation of the global order gained a new dimension with the Iran war? By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist / Writer According to many experts, February 28 will take its place in the near future as the starting date of World War III. However, I have repeatedly stated in my World Of Türkiye analyses that World War ...