North Africa is a very important area in terms of contemporary geopolitics. The great world powers are competing in the lands between Tangier and the Suez to acquire local influence and positions in the great game in the Mediterranean Sea. In the north of Africa, several conflicts are underway in various fields: from energy to military, to the commercial sphere. ...
By Mehmet Emre Öztürk The crisis in Afghanistan has created a new agenda in Asia-Pacific. The recently published article of the Wall Street Journal, which claimed that the US considers transferring Afghan refugees to its overseas military bases, including those in South Korea, has caused great echo in the said country. The South Korean Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong spoke on ...
Istanbul (Fener) Patriarch Bartholomew’s visit to Ukraine has already sparked tensions and reactions in the Orthodox world. As we will see, these tensions have more to do with geopolitics than religion. As I mentioned in a previous article (Religion and Geopolitics: The Split in the Orthodox World: https://unitedworldint.com/15021-religion-and-geopolitics-the-split-in-the-orthodox-world/), this is a matter of conflict between the Istanbul (Fener) Patriarchate and ...
The US withdrawal from Afghanistan has once again fueled discussion on the decline of the American Empire and the rise of a multipolar world. These discussions include the position of the rising Asian civilization and the economic role of Eurasia and specifically China. United World Expert Fabrizio Verde gave an interview the multipolar world, the economic position of China and ...
The Afghanistan crisis, which got into the global political agenda with the withdrawal of the US forces and the takeover the Kabul by the Taliban, still remains as a hot topic. The crisis that shook the world has caused many discussions and evaluations. We spoke about this topic to H.E. Muhammad Syrus Sajjad Qazi, Pakistan’s ambassador in Turkey. Pakistan is ...
1. Regional context Latin America and the Caribbean are going through a very unique moment in political and economic matters. Much like the rest of the planet, this region has been receiving the effects of the last global capitalist crisis for years, to which we must add the calamitous vicissitudes of the Covid19 pandemic. It’s a moment of certain optimism, ...
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on August 20. This has been the last meeting between the two leaders, as Merkel will not be a candidate in the September parliamentary elections in Germany. Still, the meeting was much more that a “farewell visit”, as the German press commented. The list of topics on ...
The Crimea Platform will convene in Kyiv on August 23. United World International has already reported that this summit, where Turkey is also expected to participate, is in fact a trap for Ankara. UWI has displayed the organizers’ strong ties to the United States and the Fethullah Gülen Organization, and reported in detail that Pete Buttigieg, the Secretary of Transportation ...
By Özgür Altınbaş The United States’ 20-years-long occupation of Afghanistan has ended and American troops had to flee the country in a pitiful way. This situation made another US defeat obvious. The US had planned and attempted a coup in Venezuela using Juan Guaido – unsuccessfully. The US had to withdraw from Libya. The National Assembly of Iraq voted and ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen We can say that Turkey is expanding its diplomatic influence over Africa in recent years, increasing its trade volume and its infrastructure investments, and is gaining more and more military alliances in the region. This, of course, has not only put France, but also the United States, the EU and the entire Western world or the ...