By Mehmet Enes Beşer While nearly 110 million people worldwide remain undernourished, and more than 30% of all food produced is lost or wasted, the irony of food deficiency as
With the Red Storm Bravo exercise, the German armed forces, Bundeswehr, are conducting a war exercise for the first time not only in the port, but also on a large
By Mehmet Enes Beşer As ASEAN countries race along their pursuit of cleaner, diversified energy systems, biofuels are a politically appealing, domestically sourced answer to rampant fossil fuel prices and
By Mehmet Enes Beşer Few problems were as nakedly exposed as that of how Malaysia managed labor migration, the tension between political vulnerability and economic necessity. Malaysian economic hegemony for
Much about Syria remains uncertain, and even its near future is hard to predict. In this complex and unpredictable environment, we spoke with Turkish political scientist Umur Tugay Yücel, the
By Mehmet Enes Beşer Australian regional ambition resembles the manner the nation considers Indonesia, a country that holds a key position in the regional geopolitical constructs of Southeast Asia. The
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen The previous French government failed to finalize the 2026 budget and eventually collapsed. The newly formed Lecornu administration now faces the same fundamental challenge. So far,
By Shigeki Okamoto (Fukuoka Action Committee against the Warring Regime) In the recent House of Councillors election, the LDP-Komeito government became a minority ruling coalition, following the House of Representatives
By Mehmet Enes Beşer Southeast Asia stands at the intersection of two compelling forces: the world’s rapidly accelerating demand for strategic minerals and increasingly integrated regional economies through trade agreements.
By Yıldıran Acar, Political Scientist During the General Assembly sessions held to mark the 80th anniversary of the United Nations, US President Donald Trump’s speech and subsequent statements sparked debate
By Meymet Enes Beşer In the wake of the changing framework of international geopolitics and economic restructuring, the physical space between Central Asia and Southeast Asia—hitherto geographically circumscribed—is narrowing extremely
By Odile Mojon-Cheminade While Germany has been Europe’s economic engine in recent decades, France has traditionally been its political, cultural, and military heart. Political because of the balancing role it
