By Dr. Fernando Esteche There are moments when history condenses. When what had been brewing for years in offices, in national security documents, working papers, in private agreements between corporations
By Orçun Göktürk, President of the Center for Sino-Turkish Studies, Beijing / China As we enter a period where increasing US-Israel aggression toward Iran and military options from Washington are
By Mehmet Enes Beşer In Bangkok, politics of plastic recycling are enacted not in institutional policy arenas or corporate boardrooms but in the urban margins of streets, dumps, canals, and
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
By Dr. Halim Gençoğlu This article evaluates the claims allegedly expressed by some Western, particularly American, academics and commentators at the International Munich Peace Conference dated February 2026—such as “colonialism
By Yiğit Saner The most gripping detail in the Epstein files was, unsurprisingly, the witness accounts describing the horrifying perversions of Western elites. But what’s come spilling out of the
By Mehmet Enes Beşer While the United States retreats inward, bedeviled by electoral division, budgetary crisis politics, and a protectionist revival of economic nationalism, fresh geopolitical momentum is building elsewhere.
By Gürkan Demir, from Tabriz / Iran On January 17, Iran’s Islamic Revolution Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, met with the people of Tabriz in Tehran. This meeting is traditional.
By Mehmet Enes Beşer As the world is caught up in western sanctions and an increasingly burgeoning world tariff war, an unlikely victor has made its way on to Russia’s
By Mehmet Enes Beşer In the face of mounting global pressure towards a binding plastic pollution treaty, ASEAN finds itself at a weak juncture—a testament to its economic ambitions as
By Azar Mahdavan, from Tehran / Iran Referring to J.D. Vance’s visit to the South Caucasus, Iran’s former ambassador to Ankara emphasized: The United States is more vulnerable than threatening
By Mehmet Enes Beşer As protectionism rises and the global political system increasingly fragments, with supply chains being disrupted and rearranged, China’s further opening-up stands out as a strong opposing
