In spite of the declining image that is every day being drawn in more detail, world hegemony and the performance of the United States continue to be axial for the global capitalist system – despite the storming of Capitol Hill. We are talking about the highest expression of contemporary imperialism, an actor of amazing influence, whose actions can change everything ...
Ethiopia is on the verge of collapse due to internal tensions, which could result in serious problems for most of Africa, but opportunities for some. On December 27, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi announced that he would seek to conclude “a binding legal agreement” on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) with Sudan and Ethiopia. The Egyptian head of state ...
There is no need to summarize the events of yesterday again. Everyone has watched the assault on the US Congress in Washington DC live on TV. But the exceptional circumstances of the United States are not limited to this assault. A specific process is taking place that has not started yesterday and will not end with the Congress building being ...
“The wolf was asked, ‘why is your neck so thick?’, ‘ because, I do my work myself’, it answered.” 15 countries in the Asia-Pacific region have organized a free trade zone covering one third of the world economy. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, as being the world’s largest trade agreement to date, was signed on November 15. Take ...
2020 has been a year that will be remembered for decades, even centuries. There might not be another year in which the worries and hopes of all the nations were so common. Billions of people’s lives have changed, people asked the same questions and had the same expectations at the same time around all seven seas. We have gathered some ...
In its last days, the Trump Administration seems to succeed in sowing harmony and conflict in the Middle East at the same time. The so called Abraham Accords and the reconciliation of the Gulf countries are led with promises of peace and cooperation, while the US sends simultaneously bombers and aircraft carriers to the Persian Gulf in an obvious threat ...
The public agenda in Turkey was busy with three main topics as we reached the new year of 2021. The first topic was the ratification of an extradition treaty between the People’s Republic of China and Turkey. The extradition treaty caused a public outcry among the exiled Uyghur community in Turkey and among some political circles affiliated with the Uyghur ...
Stefan Zweig explains the great breaking points which caused a change in history with the following words in his book, Decisive Moments in History; “The tragic and fate-determining moments, in which a single decision that has passed through the ages are compressed into a single calendar, a single hour, and often a single minute, is quite rare in a life ...
Turkish-Israeli relations have received some warm messages in the recent weeks. Mesut Hakkı Caşın, Member of Presidential Committee on Security and Foreign Policy declared “if Israel takes one positive step, Turkey will take two”, President Erdogan followed by saying “We would like to bring our ties to a better point”. Bilateral ties have seen tensions since the attack on the ...
Two different and even opposing events marked the last days of 2020 from the European perspective: On the one side, the highly disputed Brexit-deal was signed off. On the other side, an even higher, in fact seven years long disputed negotiation came to conclusion: the European Union – China Comprehensive Investment Agreement (CAI). Announced on the 30th of December, the ...