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 ...

On the future of the ongoing wars in Eurasia and West Asia The world keeps turning rapidly, scattering its major pieces out of place. The global political arena is in chaos… The Atlantic’s 500-year advance has come to an end. The old order is collapsing, but a new one has yet to be established. Struggles continue on many fronts, and ...

Posted by by United World International 7 Min Read July 13, 2025 Last month, I was in Germany for an international conference. I would like to share a few things I observed at the Berlin Humboldt Museum. There is a section dedicated to Islamic art; however, the Shi’a section has been removed, reportedly due to the tension between Iran and ...

Interview with Odile Mojon-Cheminade, political analyst from the Schiller Institute. French President Emmanuel Macron and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, spoke by phone for the first time since September 2022. The call took place amidst escalating tensions in the ongoing war in Ukraine and after the “12-day war” between Iran and Israel ended. We asked Odile Mojon-Cheminade, political analyst from ...

An Imperfect but significant alternative By Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / CHINA A recent article published in the South China Morning Post—owned by Alibaba Group’s founder and one of China’s wealthiest figures, billionaire Jack Ma (Chinese name: Mǎ Yún)—was titled “New wave of globalization could be China-led”. The piece was authored by Wang Huiyao, the president of the Beijing-based think ...

Interview with EP member Danilo Della Valle. We are continuing our interviews with European voices. This time, we asked Danilo Della Valle about the attack on Iran, the NATO summit, the global transition to multipolarity and European perspective on global peace. Della Valle is a Member of the European Parliament and also member of the Italian Five Star Movement. How ...

For the greater part of the region, the strategic issue is whether America is trustworthy. By Mehmet Enes Beşer The return to the world scene by Donald Trump, albeit more ambitious and with greater political desperation this time, has revived debates over the American foreign policy future—particularly in Asia. His caustic diplomatic style, transactional diplomacy, and disdain for multilateral organizations ...