The WBA’s participation in the Forum will underscore the importance of expanding dialogue among parliamentarians, entrepreneurs, and leaders of BRICS countries on humanitarian and business issues. The Organizing Committee of the II BRICS Forum “Traditional Values” is proud to announce its partnership with the BRICS Women’s Business Alliance (WBA). The decision was made following an official invitation sent by Fausto ...

“How can we stand with armies that drop bombs on children?” the Colombian president said at the Emergency Ministerial Conference on Palestine in Bogotá. In Bogotá, Colombia’s capital, the Hague Group gathered to its international summit to implement action against Israel’s offensive in Gaza. In this regard, Colombian President Gustavo Petro stated: “We have lived Gaza in our blood; we ...

A call to a third way—a third path—a path of defining Asia not by proxy wars, but by agency, balance, and collaboration. By Mehmet Enes Beşer The United States dominated Southeast Asia by sheer power and imposed its will through military alliances, naval presence, and economics for decades. While Washington presents its presence as a stabilizing one for freedom of ...

Regional evaluations and strategies around Damascus. By Mohammad Sabreen, from Cairo / Egypt Exciting reports have revealed, in recent days, a new Middle Eastern deal based on Syria relinquishing the Golan Heights to Israel, in exchange for compensation from the Lebanese city of Tripoli. This comes amid persistent reports of the partition of Syria and other Arab countries. Some argue ...

Speech of Dragana Trifkovic, director of the Center for Geostrategic Studies The Serbian Center for Geostrategic Studies has held an international conference on Church and schisms, the abuse of religion for geopolitical purposes. One of the main topics of the conference was the role that the Patriarch Bartholomew I, whose seat is in Istanbul, Türkiye, plays. Below we document the ...

On Beijing’s very recent international efforts. While the United States designs wars, plans invasions, decides on sanctions, and implements tariffs against the entire world, China quietly advances its peace diplomacy. While Washington rhetorically spews forth its plan for planetary destruction, which it Machiavellianly executes, assuming that this will allow it to maintain its global hegemony, Beijing, quietly, builds a dynamic ...

Institutionalization of climate action is what’s needed. By Mehmet Enes Beşer As the planet hurtles towards ecological tipping points, the climate crisis has reached not just an environmental crisis, but a civilizational emergency. Record-breaking heatwaves, disappearing coastlines, crashing biodiversity, and the oceans devouring land with an increasingly accelerating ferocity. Somewhere, this is felt—and politically under-served—more than in Southeast Asia. The ...

On Europe’s militarization and its growing economic and political crises, from the Turkish community in Germany, to Türkiye–Germany relations, from cultural imperialism to and Israel’s aggression. Tomasz Froelich is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. He also serves on the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Delegation for Relations with ...

Main political events in Türkiye in the last week. Türkiye faced another eventful week. A cartoon related to the Palestinian-Israeli War published in Leman Magazine. While an investigation was launched against the magazine’s staff for allegedly resembling the Prophet Muhammad and the Prophet Moses, the ruling party heavily criticized the magazine. In addition, groups gathered around the magazine attacked the ...

Progress on De-Dollarization and infrastructure, while some contradictions, especially in Brazilian foreign policy continue. By Fernando Esteche, from Buenos Aires / Argentina The 17th BRICS Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro, marks a turning point in the reconfiguration of the global order. Beyond the headlines of notable absences and diplomatic declarations, the agreements reached reveal both the bloc’s transformative potential ...