How is Türkiye’s growing defense industry strength and multi-dimensional strategy shifting the balance of power? By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist The conflict between the U.S. and Iran—which remains far from resolution and is rapidly generating global repercussions—has sparked profound debates not only about the balance of power in the Middle East but also about NATO’s future and Europe’s security architecture. ...
Former CIA Analyst and the US State Department advisor Larry J. Johnson on US Imperial Overreach, anti-Zionist Backlash, Death of European Sovereignty, and Türkiye’s Geopolitical ‘Schizophrenia.’ By Yunus Emre Özgün As the Transatlantic security architecture buckles under the weight of an impending ‘economic tsunami,’ the United States faces a brutal domestic reckoning over its unconditional support for Israel. In an ...
Posted by by United World International 5 Min Read May 2, 2026 By Mehmet Enes Beşer Australia keeps calling itself a “middle power.” Fine. But the label is starting to feel like one of those old stickers on a suitcase: once useful, now mostly nostalgic. Because the world Australia learned to do “middle-power diplomacy” in—the world of patient committees, slow ...
Stuck in Yesterday’s Alliance By Mehmet Enes Beşer The liberal world order is being reshaped by a significant change wave. The times of unipolar hegemony are almost waning. The multipolar world of great complexity, rivalry, and interdependence is taking shape. With growing regional blocs, middle powers, and non-Western power, the question for the small nation like the Philippines is no ...
How is Israel’s move to recognize Somaliland backfiring? By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to Ethiopia last week, following visits to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, signaled not only a diplomatic engagement but also a new phase in Türkiye’s Horn of Africa strategy. The timing of the visit was particularly noteworthy, coming after Israel’s decision to recognize ...
Interview with Dr. Shoaib Khan, academic at the Center for Central Eurasian Studies at the University of Mumbai India… A leading actor in the new world order whose birth pangs are shaking the globe… Therefore, every step it takes in foreign policy is closely followed. I discussed India’s foreign policy aligned with the US, Russia, China, and BRICS, the trade ...
An approach that disrupts the status quo, the construction of strategic depth, the ability to maintain multiple balances. By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist The global arena is facing the reality that the liberal order, which has dominated for decades and was established after the Second World War, has collapsed, and that the Western countries that owned this order, primarily the ...
Europe, the Pacific, the Middle East, the Gulf, Taiwan, Israel, military, commercial and economic objectives… By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist The US recently published its new ‘National Security Strategy Document,’ which sets out its defense and foreign policy direction. Although the strategy document emphasizes the Trump administration’s global perspective and non-interventionist policies centered on ‘regional dominance’ and ‘the nation-state concept,’ ...
Here are the facts and strategy behind Trump’s claim that he has ‘ended 8 wars’. By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist/Writer With US President Donald Trump’s second term in office, the world has entered a new and significant period of chaos. Of course, there was chaos before the Trump era. However, the chaos brought about by Trump is rapidly taking its ...
Washington lacks the ability to create such a partnership, whereas Russia, China, Türkiye, Qatar, and even Iran (in the mid-term), can provide the foundations for a new architecture of stability. By Mohammad Reza Moradi, General Director of Mehr News Agency’s Foreign Languages and International News Department The recent trip of Ahmed al-Sharaa, the President of Syria, to the United States ...
Türkiye is now proving itself to be a power that cannot be confined to the boundaries imposed by the West or the traditional patterns of the East. By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist The radical transformations Türkiye has undergone over the last two decades have undoubtedly stood out as its own axis-based foreign policy approach, its approach to being a country ...
Charting a New Course in a Polarized World By Mehmet Enes Beşer The promise of a “New Malaysia” first captured global attention in 2018, when a surprise electoral upset ended sixty-two unbroken years of Barisan Nasional coalition government. Pakatan Harapan coalition win—and return to politics of veteran politician Mahathir Mohamad—was welcomed as a democratic victory, a harbinger that Malaysia was ...