“Fostering entrepreneurship, particularly among micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), is vital for unlocking inclusive growth, creating jobs, and strengthening intra-BRICS trade in an increasingly multipolar world”, she said ahead of the meeting. September 15-17, 2025, the 2nd BRICS “Traditional Values” Forum will take place at Brazil’s National Congress building in Brasília. With a focus on shared cultural and moral ...

The recent rapproachment between Ankara and General Haftar, dominant figure in Eastern Libyan, and its internatipnal context. Libya holds critical importance for Türkiye’s Blue Homeland and Eastern Mediterranean strategy. For quite a while, the country has been going through significant changes and power shifts. Sides switch, alliances realign, and power constantly reshuffles. Most recently, Ankara has begun reengaging with Khalifa ...

Russia’s rock legend Viktor Tsoi’s verses indicate the path ahead. By Onur Sinan Güzaltan Autumn has arrived in Moscow with an unusually sunny spell. Muscovites are out on the streets, enjoying the city before the long winter sets in. Cafés, bars, restaurants are packed to the brim. With the name of “City Day,” Moscow celebrates its 878th birthday with festivals, ...

Main political events in Türkiye in the last week. Last week, the anniversary of the August 30, 1922 Victory, led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and opening the door to the founding of the Republic of Türkiye, was celebrated with great enthusiasm across the country. The Grand National Assembly of Türkiye (TBMM) held the “Special Session on Palestine”. Another important event ...

ASEAN–South Korea partnership is a reminder that it’s possible to establish influence on the grounds of stability, creativity, and compassion. By Mehmet Enes Beşer In the context of Southeast Asia’s post-Cold War experience of the disorder of a multipolar world of great power competition, economic fragmentation, and fluid security alignments, ASEAN continues to seek partners that will assist it in ...

Of peoples and states.. By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos, from Athens / Greece Two very important uprisings are now stirring up large parts of humanity, even if many of mainstream media — not media of information, but of lobotomizing and bestializing — under the suffocating, historically unprecedented control of financial capital and of the Israeli and Zionist lobbies which dominate them, do ...

Steps taken within the EU and NATO, military and defense industry partnerships, energy, economic, and diplomatic cooperation. By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist The process that began on October 7, 2023, with Hamas’s “Aksa Tufanı” operation and continued with Israel’s extensive attacks that turned into a genocidal war against Gaza, has led to new deep fractures and alliances not only in ...

Thailand has a decision to make. By Mehmet Enes Beşer For decades, Thailand’s economic self has been synonymous with turquoise waters, golden shrines, and night bazaars that glow. Tourism has been the crown jewel and crutch of Thailand’s GDP for decades, accounting for up to 20% of the economy in high-season years. But with the post-pandemic world—and ever-intensifying global trends ...

New Diplomatic Balances from Alaska to Shanghai A Multilateral Transition in an Era of Great Uncertainty By Yıldıran Acar, Political Scientist We live in an age of great uncertainty. Hegemonic competition, global injustice, deepening crises, and hybrid threats—when combined with the opportunities provided by new technologies—are making the international arena increasingly unpredictable. Traditional rules and norms are bending under the ...

How US municipalities get tanks used in Afghanistan, and what peace truly means. Violence becomes more and more the predominant feature of global politics. International violence takes on the form of war, for instance in Israel’s attack on Palestine, resulting in a genocide. Simultaneously, Western countries increasingly use the threat of war to pursue their interests, be it with NATO ...