The country sits at the center of Beijing’s vision of a secure, integrated southern rim in the region. By Mehmet Enes Beşer As the global interest remains captivated by great power competition and regional fault lines in the Indo-Pacific, one underappreciated actor remains a quietly salient factor in Chinese strategic thinking: Myanmar. Conventional wisdom had it that Myanmar sat at ...
By Onur Sinan Güzaltan United World International expert, Political Scientist Onur Sinan Güzaltan held a conference at Voronezh Technical University in Russia on the geopolitical evaluation of Türkiye-Russia relations. We are sharing the English translation of the shortened and important points of Güzaltan’s speech at the conference with our valued readers. Türkiye and Russia are two big countries of Eurasia… ...
Background and Türkiye’s accession. By Halil Özsaraç, (Ret.) Turkish Staff Navy Captain On April 29, 2025, Türkiye’s Minister of Transport and Infrastructure announced that Türkiye had become a “strategic partner” of the Three Seas Initiative. The Three Seas Initiative is an alliance established a decade ago in the region spanning the Baltic, Black, and Adriatic Seas in Central and Eastern ...
One loan, multiple interests By Fernando Esteche, from Buenos Aires / Argentina “Argentina has shown that this time it is different,” said Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), during the 2025 Spring Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank. What could have been read as a technical remark was in fact a political act: The ...
Between Sea and Strategy By Mehmet Enes Beşer In a more divided world in which global power balances are changing, and regional tensions are mounting, Japan again stands at a strategy fork. The decision it faces is both of the past and of the present: Will it adhere to an increasingly outdated security framework rooted in neo-realist power politics, or ...
Economic Sustainability Beyond 2025 By Mehmet Enes Beşer Timor-Leste, since its independence in 2002, has made commendable strides in nation-building and socio-economic development. Central to its economic framework has been the Petroleum Fund, established to manage revenues from oil and gas resources. However, as 2025 approaches, the nation confronts a looming financial precipice, primarily due to the depletion of these ...
Opportunities and Risks. By Mehmet Enes Beşer Over the past decade, Cambodia has significantly strengthened its relationship with China, a development that has garnered both domestic and international attention. This burgeoning partnership, characterized by extensive economic investments, military collaborations, and political support, presents a complex landscape of opportunities and challenges for Cambodia. Economic Engagement: Infrastructure and Investments China’s economic footprint ...
The Schiller Institute has organized in Paris an international conference titled “Water for Peace”. Various speakers from different countries participated on the conference held in January 9, 2024. As United World International, we consider the conference of strategic value and will publish in two parts the notes of Odile Mojon, one of the organizers. Below is the first part. In ...
The humanity has left behind another tough year with many significant challenges. At the end of 2023 Palestinians raised the flag of revolt of oppressed nations against the oppressor world. Throughout the year, Russia’s achievements in Ukraine, led deep divisions on the West. France’s expulsion from Africa, the resolution of hitches in Karabakh, Syria’s return to the Arab League, the ...
Negotiations in the Caucasus between Armenia and Azerbaijan continue. But due to the great geopolitical importance of the region, outside powers, especially the United States and the European Union, intervene in the process, seeking, according to experts, to encircle Russia. Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders Nikol Pashinian and Ilham Aliyev met informally on the sidelines of an unofficial summit of the ...