Bridges Over Balance Sheets By Mehmet Enes Beşer The United States likes to cite one number boastfully in its relations with Southeast Asia: it is still ASEAN’s single largest foreign investor. On paper, the statistic verifies Washington’s economic significance to a place that is central to global trade and geopolitics. Behind the balance sheets, however, is a more nuanced—and growingly ...
From defense rhetoric and petroleum exports to arm sales and diplomatic maneuvers, Southeast Asia is a region near and dear to Moscow’s heart upon which to make inroads internationally. By Mehmet Enes Beşer Russian strategic thinking has historically been motivated by the desire to project power beyond its near-abroad and secure a seat at the table of a multipolar world ...
If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. Once again, the world’s rulers failed to grasp the world! The same issues, the same panels, the same sentences, once again, fell short of tangible benefits for the planet. This year, from January 19 to 23, the World Economic Forum convened in Davos under the theme of “The ...
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 ...
Only when acting alone can the EU establish a multipolar, rule-based, and inclusive international system. By Mehmet Enes Beşer For much of the past decade, the European Union has struggled to formulate a clear and independent policy toward China. Struggling between the gravitational force of its historic bond with the United States and the multidimensional realities of its economic dependence ...
While the US tries to impose unipolarity, what limits will it face? The world is racing toward the Great War. Let’s list the developments of the past month that can be seen as warning signs of a major war: – Russian President Putin’s residence was targeted. In response, Russia struck Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and military bases with various missiles, with ...
UWI author and historian and political scientist Associate Professor Mehmet Perinçek’s assessment on the US attack on Venezuela The attack on Venezuela once again laid bare a fact: the Western world, the Atlantic world, has completely abandoned its founding principles. With this attack, the death of a liberalism that has long been on life support is effectively being declared. Western ...
Sudan, Gaza, conflicts, competitive authoritarianism, dysfunctional global institutions, and the end of the era of exceptionalism! By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist 2025 was not only a challenging year geopolitically, but also a year that could be described as the most chaotic threshold of the last quarter-century. In summary, 2025 was a breaking point where the unsustainability of the Western-centric global ...
Leveraging the Divide By Mehmet Enes Beşer In the heightening United States–China trade war, global focus has shifted primarily to tariff schedules, supply chains shattered, and factories rebalanced. Beyond overt economic impact, though, lies a more sophisticated strategic actor edging its way into the openings. Sanctioned by the West, diplomatically isolated but globally ambitious, Russia is more than a disinterested ...
Main points of the recently published third Document on China’s Policy towards Latin America and the Caribbean As if by the whims of life and unplanned adjustments of history, at the very moment that Trump was threatening Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and Marco Rubio was making clear his conviction that the Western Hemisphere belongs to Washington by bringing ...
An outlook on what 2026 may bring to a world that is on knife’s edge. The sidelining of hardliners in Zelenskyy’s government over corruption allegations, US Secretary of State Rubio’s refusal to attend the NATO summit, corruption probes against the figures in Brussels who are pro-war against Russia, the distance put between NATO and Europe in the US 2025 National ...
Strategic autonomy knocks at the door Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / China At the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, the two sides reached a truce on trade. Yet behind this agreement lies a deeper reality: a structural transformation in U.S.–China relations that has become irreversible. The old order is dying, ...