Powering the Future By Mehmet Enes Beşer While the world speeds toward a low-carbon future, the ten ASEAN member states stand at a strategic crossroads. BLESSED with solar, hydro, wind, and geothermal resources, ASEAN is positioned well to ground the enormous potential of its development on renewable power. Painfully lacking clear regional ambitions and growing global interest, the ASEAN switch ...

The BRICS group has shown complete ineffectiveness. It has remained completely silent in the face of the imperialist aggression of the Nazi-fascist government of the United States against two of its members, Iran and Cuba. The far-right, neo-fascist sector that has seized control of the US administration and imposed its expansionist logic and ambition for global domination has begun to ...

How is Israel’s move to recognize Somaliland backfiring? By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to Ethiopia last week, following visits to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, signaled not only a diplomatic engagement but also a new phase in Türkiye’s Horn of Africa strategy. The timing of the visit was particularly noteworthy, coming after Israel’s decision to recognize ...

From Assembly Lines to Algorithms By Mehmet Enes Beşer China has traditionally been defined in the world economy as the “world’s factory” – a manufacturing giant which offered size, velocity, and price discounts to global value chains. With the growth of its market, the script was rewritten: China emerged as a giant market where foreign firms competed with one another ...

Interview with Leonid Savin, Chairman of the Fidel Castro Foundation We spoke with Leonid Savin, Chairman of the Fidel Castro Foundation (based in Moscow), about the energy crisis in Cuba, possible White House moves regarding Cuba, and Moscow-Havana relations. “Better early than later” What is the scale of Cuba’s energy crisis, and could it threaten the regime’s survival? This is ...

On Iran’s approach to negotiations. By Özgür Altınbaş Iranian political analyst Peiman Salehi evaluates Iran-US tensions and negotiations. In a period where regional tensions are rising, and military activity has reached its peak, the question “Is the US buildup a harbinger of war?” occupies the global agenda. Peiman Salehi, an Iranian political analyst and author, stated that despite US pressure, ...

Cities of the Future By Mehmet Enes Beşer Urbanization is transforming at a fast pace the population and economic landscape of developing ASEAN economies at all-time highs. From the metastasizing metropolises of Ho Chi Minh City and Manila to Jakarta’s and Phnom Penh’s suburbs, cities are increasingly becoming drivers of growth, hubs of innovation, and drivers of opportunity. But as ...

The imperial operation of February 2026 is real, it is serious, and its consequences will be long-lasting. But it is not irreversible. By Dr. Fernando Esteche There are moments when history condenses. When what had been brewing for years in offices, in national security documents, working papers, in private agreements between corporations and states, suddenly becomes visible. February 2026 was ...

The most probable answer is hidden in a policy inherited from Deng Xiaoping By Orçun Göktürk, President of the Center for Sino-Turkish Studies, Beijing / China As we enter a period where increasing US-Israel aggression toward Iran and military options from Washington are being voiced at the highest levels, the stance China will take is a matter of great curiosity. ...

Interview to Sputnik Türkiye. UWI author and political scientist Onur Sinan Güzaltan answered questions from Ceyda Karan of Sputnik Türkiye. Güzaltan shared his views on the Munich Security Conference, the situation in the Atlantic alliance, the objectives of a possible attack on Iran, and Russia-West and Türkiye-West relations. We present the interview translated into English.—————- “Capitalism and the West as ...

The city’s waste economy is not a technical problem to be solved, but a negotiated social space shaped by class, migration, informality, and environmental governance. By Mehmet Enes Beşer In Bangkok, politics of plastic recycling are enacted not in institutional policy arenas or corporate boardrooms but in the urban margins of streets, dumps, canals, and squatter settlements—terrain often ignored in ...

Interview on French domestic politics, the political system, its radical questioning, relations with the Trump Administration and Israel. Alain Soral… He is one of the most debated thinkers in France. His ideas are frequently voiced within anti-globalization left and right political movements. Convicted in France for thought crimes, Soral continues to live in exile. I spoke with Soral about the ...