The Ukraine conflict is opening up debates about the current and future nature of the international system. Led by the US, Western countries frequently claim thar Russia’s military operation threatens the global “rules based order”. Hence, they do acknowledge that a profound change is taking place. Others meanwhile claim the rise of a new, multipolar world order. This argument finds ...
British Foreign Minister Liz Truss made at an important meeting in London on April 27 the following statement: “NATO must have a global perspective. We need to avert threats in the Indo-Pacific by working with allies like Japan and Australia to ensure the Pacific is protected.” “We need to ensure that democracies like Taiwan can defend themselves,” she added. (1) ...
Earlier, he had gathered attention with his statement that “NATO was brain dead”. Now, the French President Emmanuel Macron has incited a new debate with his proposal of a ‘European Political Community’. Having stated that the European Union would not suffice to answer the needs of the peoples of Europe and that its reform was necessary, Macron is expected to ...
The conflict within the NATO over Sweden and Finland’s membership is continuing. On May 18, both countries’ ambassadors in Brussels have presented their official letters to NATO, applying for membership. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg received their letters. But Turkey vetoed their membership from day one: The North Atlantic Council gathered on level of permanent representatives to accept the application ...
Sri Lanka, one of the South Asian countries, has been shaken by the protests against the government and the economic crisis for more than a month. The cessation of the imports of all kinds of products, from milk to fuel, causes great food shortages in the country. Frequent power cuts have also infuriated the public. The people have been protesting ...
The Ukraine crisis as a watershed moment in history keeps on fueling debates on the future of the international system. Within these debates, UWI expert Perinçek gave an interview to Iranian daily newspaper Tehran Times. UWI presents below the interview as published by the Tehran Times, the original text can be read here. TEHRAN – The Ukraine war proved that ...
By Douglas Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela, translation and editing by Yunus Soner Relations between the United States and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela are getting in a state of flux. Anonymous US administration officials announced in an interview with the AP news agency the “easing of a few economic sanctions” against Venezuela. The easing will allow Chevron Corp. to negotiate its ...
Along with the continuing Ukraine crisis, not only the relations between Russia and the West deteriorating. Relations between Turkey and the West suffer the same fate. United World International expert Onur Sinan Guzaltan evaluated the Ukraine crisis, NATO’s enlargement discussions and the future of Turkey-Western relations in an interview with the Italian-based l’Antidiplomatico website. The original text can be read ...
The Ukraine crisis has set debates on the so-called rules based order and multipolarity on the global agenda. BRICS is a usual suspect when talk comes to the polycentric or multipolar world system. And the 2006 established alliance between Brazil, Russia, India and China that later included also South Africa may present news very soon – with the inclusion of ...
The Ukraine conflict is opening up debates about the current and future nature of the international system. Led by the US, Western countries frequently claim thar Russia’s military operation threatens the global “rules based order”. Hence, they do acknowledge that a profound change is taking place. Others meanwhile claim the rise of a new, multipolar world order. This argument finds ...
By Adem Kılıç * The world is going through tough times with the Russia-Ukraine war, the most chaotic conflict of the last period that was shaken by the pandemic. As the world was going through a new structuring process in the light of the freshly formed balances with the beginning of this war, a similar problem, the Taiwan issue, began ...
By Mehmet Kıvanç “The Ukraine conflict has altered all dynamics of the global order and the regional geopolitics. What was impossible yesterday has become possible today. The conflict has born some results that surprised the US too, beginning with India walking away from the American alliance. We are asking ourselves whether India was heading towards the Russian-Chinese side, but now, ...