Cyber Partnership in a Fragmented World By Mehmet Enes Beşer The rapidly accelerating and technology-driven character of cyber-attacks are a certain and urgent challenge for the future online in the region. Ransomware cyber-attacks strategic assets through to phishing attacks corrupting election processes: cyber threats overshadow large and continue to cross borders while remaining in step and casting capacities behind. In ...

Interview to Radio Sputnik. UWI author, historian and political scientist Associate Professor Mehmet Perinçek was guest on Radio Sputnik to discuss the Soviet Union’s Victory Day (9 May). Mehmet Perinçek discusses the meaning of the war against the Nazis during the Second World War for the Soviet people, the West’s policy towards Hitler, and the global consequences of the 9 ...

Interview with Dr. Hamed Vafaei, faculty member at the University of Tehran and specialist in Chinese affairs By Azar Mahdavan, from Tehran / Iran As military tensions among Iran, the United States, and Israel have intensified in recent weeks, growing attention has been directed toward the role of major powers in managing the crisis. In this context, China—one of Iran’s ...

How is Türkiye’s growing defense industry strength and multi-dimensional strategy shifting the balance of power? By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist The conflict between the U.S. and Iran—which remains far from resolution and is rapidly generating global repercussions—has sparked profound debates not only about the balance of power in the Middle East but also about NATO’s future and Europe’s security architecture. ...

Such will be the case where Russian’s fate in Vietnamese classrooms is not in wistful yearnings, but whether it will succeed in staking out an active, productive niche. By Mehmet Enes Beşer The proposals laid out between Russia and Vietnam for the restoration of Russian instruction as a foreign language within Vietnamese schools has created diplomatic as well as public ...

Interview with Prof. Mehmet Yalçın Yılmaz from the Istanbul University. Once again, relations between the European Union and Türkiye are passing through tense moments: Commission President Ursula von der Leyen placed Türkiye into the same basket as Russia and China, causing consternation in Ankara. French President Emmanuel Macron promised to “stand by Greece and help defend its sovereignty” – a ...

Former CIA Analyst and the US State Department advisor Larry J. Johnson on US Imperial Overreach, anti-Zionist Backlash, Death of European Sovereignty, and Türkiye’s Geopolitical ‘Schizophrenia.’ By Yunus Emre Özgün As the Transatlantic security architecture buckles under the weight of an impending ‘economic tsunami,’ the United States faces a brutal domestic reckoning over its unconditional support for Israel. In an ...

This is more than a chance to soak up the production out of China—it is a chance to redefine the place of the region in the new world economy. By Mehmet Enes Beşer China-U.S. tensions last year redefined the terms of global supply chains. While the tariff battles raged and rising geopolitical suspicion shrouded the atmosphere, multinational companies have increasingly ...

Türkiye’s response is likely to involve hedging through deeper ties with Russia, even as some disagreements persist. By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida The recent prospect of a military alliance between Greece, Israel and Cyprus introduces a new variable into the Eastern Mediterranean security equation. Such an arrangement, even if initially limited, will inevitably be perceived by Türkiye as an attempt ...

The truth is that left-wing governments, in most cases, have created a new bureaucracy, also corrupt, nepotistic, and often incapable of generating policies that benefit the people. The time has come to reverse this situation. The collapse and dissolution of the Soviet Union marked the end of an era characterized by a bipolar international system in which ideology dictated the ...

Posted by by Islam Farag 23 Min Read May 11, 2026 After nearly six decades of membership in OPEC, and despite being the organization’s third-largest oil producer, the United Arab Emirates announced its withdrawal from the organization at the end of last April. This decision by the Gulf state has raised numerous questions regarding its underlying motives and sparked speculation ...

Posted by by United World International 19 Min Read May 10, 2026 By Michael Roberts * Last week, crude oil prices in Asia hit a new high at $125/b amid reports that the US was considering military action against Iran to break the deadlock in peace talks. The global average oil price also reached $113/b, the highest since the post-COVID ...