Interview to Sputnik Türkiye. UWI author and political scientist Onur Sinan Güzaltan answered questions from Ceyda Karan of Sputnik Türkiye. Güzaltan shared his views on the Munich Security Conference, the situation in the Atlantic alliance, the objectives of a possible attack on Iran, and Russia-West and Türkiye-West relations. We present the interview translated into English.—————- “Capitalism and the West as ...
What truths did the Munich Security Conference reveal about Europe’s “security crisis”? By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist The Munich Security Conference, held in Germany and considered one of the most critical meetings in Europe in recent years, was a turning point not only in terms of the war in Ukraine or the future of NATO, but also in terms of ...
Targeting “godless communist revolutions and anti-colonial uprisings” as reason for “Western” decline. “The great Western empires had entered a terminal decline, accelerated by godless communist revolutions and anti-colonial uprisings that would transform the world.” With these words, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio sparked one of the biggest controversies at this year’s Munich Security Conference. Rubio’s reference to anti-colonial movements—historically ...
By Fikret Akfırat The Munich Security Conference, one of the most prominent events of the Atlantic Alliance, was held this year on February 17-19. Around 40 leaders, ministers, diplomats and experts from more than 100 countries attended the Conference, which is now in its 59th year. Despite convening in Munich, the main objective of the meetings held since 1963 is ...
The 56th Munich Security Conference this year convened around the topic of ’Westlesness’. The conference report stressed that ‘the world is getting less and less Western’, while debate between the US and European leaders around the ‘collapsing of the Atlantic Alliance’ took center stage at the conference. At the Munich Security Conference (MSC 2020) this year, 30 heads of states ...
An annual security conference was held in Munich from February 14 to 16. This international forum, which takes place every year in the capital of Bavaria, was originally conceived as a joint event between NATO and the conservative Christian Social Union. Today it is more informal, but the agenda and high level list of participants demonstrates that the problems of ...