By Mehmet Enes Beşer Rare earths are the kind of material you never think about—right up until you can’t stop thinking about them. They sit inside the stuff we now treat as normal: EV motors, wind turbines, missile guidance, medical scanners, smartphones, factory robots. Tiny inputs, huge consequences. And in the Indo-Pacific, they’ve become a simple, uncomfortable test: can we ...

As is always his habit, US President Donald Trump seems to draw from a well fundamentally different from that of his predecessors. Consequently, all his political stances and decisions appear as a rebellion against the constraints that bound the occupants of the White House for decades. At times, he looks like a rebel with no respect for the legacy of ...

By Aleksandr Galushka, Former Minister for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic, President, “Kristall Rosta” Foundation, Russia The international conference entitled “The Alliance to Prevent a Great War,” organized by the World Civilizations Initiative Research Center, was held at the Meyra Palace Hotel in Ankara on 18–19 July 2026. UWI will present the speeches held on the ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer Türkiye has become a Dialogue Partner of ASEAN, but a higher diplomatic title will not create regional influence on its own. Türkiye already has a broad cooperation agenda and an ASEAN–Türkiye Fund at the ASEAN Secretariat. The next step is to turn that existing fund into a predictable multi-year program, supported by a small implementation team ...

The greatest geopolitical transformation of the twenty-first century is now taking place across the world’s oceans: Tevfik Kadan claims that in his book “Denizlerin Fethi Çağı” (The Age of Conquering the Seas) published by Kaynak Publications in Istanbul in June 2026 Tevfik Kadan, editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Aydınlık, examines the global struggle for power through the lens of the ...

By Brahim Mokhtar Buyema, Director General for Asian Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Former Minister of State, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic The international conference entitled “The Alliance to Prevent a Great War,” organized by the World Civilizations Initiative Research Center, was held at the Meyra Palace Hotel in Ankara on 18–19 July 2026. UWI will present the speeches ...

Last week, Türkiye had a packed political agenda. The political rupture within the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) following the court’s ruling of absolute nullity culminated in the party splitting in two and the establishment of a new party with the name of “New Party”. Another important development of the week was Türkiye’s admission as an ASEAN Dialogue Partner. ...

Last week we left open the questions about: What is really happening in the United States? And why the desperation of its elites? The answers might lie in a series of election results in recent months that are producing what the mainstream media are calling “a shift of the Democratic Party to the far left,” placing the “socialist and Muslim” ...

By Shakeel Bhaktawer, International Representative of the South African Communist Party The international conference entitled “The Alliance to Prevent a Great War,” organized by the World Civilizations Initiative Research Center, was held at the Meyra Palace Hotel in Ankara on 18–19 July 2026. UWI will present the speeches held on the conference during the coming days. The conference, which featured ...

By Akira Fujiwara, Educational WorkerAccording to a survey by Okinawa Prefecture, from 1972—the year Okinawa reverted to Japanese sovereignty—through 2025, there were 6,409 arrests of U.S. military personnel, its civilian employees, and their families for criminal offenses under the Criminal Law. The number has continued to rise in recent years, reaching 101 cases in 2025—the first time it has exceeded ...