By Mehmet Enes Beşer ASEAN’s transformation into one of the globe’s most dynamic economic blocks has been spurred as much by domestic reform as by two strong exogenous drivers: financial growth and globalization. They have opened up capital markets, penetrated cross-border investment, and connected ASEAN economies into global supply chains on a previously unheard-of scale. But whereas this convergence has ...

France is struck in a deep political and social crisis. Prime Ministers are resigning, losing votes of confidence, while the population is engaged in protests on the streets. We asked Rodrigo Arenas, French member of parliament from the France Insoumise (France Unbowed) on what’s going on. Arenas had indicated that the government crisis would continue, and his statements in the ...

By Gökalp Erbaş “If the opposition is suppressed and intimidated through police methods, and PAS and its allies secure high vote shares in the elections, an inevitable outcome will be approaching. In this scenario, Russia will eventually be provoked from this front.” I concluded my Moldova analysis in July with these lines, and now, three months later, Moldova seems closer ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer The Malaysian CVE experience has attracted regional and global attention both as a pioneering legislation and because of its complex security, political, and religious dynamics. Malaysia has utilized a multidimensional toolkit of hard and soft power responses from the Malayan Emergency insurgency during the 20th century up to the current threat from transnational Islamist networks and ...

By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist / Author Shortly after announcing its recognition of Palestine as a state, Britain deployed former Prime Minister Tony Blair to thwart Palestine’s self-determination in line with US President Trump’s so-called ‘Peace Deal’. This move once again exposed the historical hypocrisy and colonialist mentality of Washington, London and, essentially, the West. Tony Blair is now positioned ...

By Onur Sinan Güzaltan The phrases in the title of this article belong to Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić. The threat of a global war isn’t just on Vučić’s mind. But on everyone who’s been following world affairs even a little. To better understand Vučić’s remarks, it’s worth recalling the developments that have recently taken place in global fault lines:  Yes, ...

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 well as over-consumption in ASEAN is both an ethical and a strategic issue. Not only is food loss a terms-of-art contradiction of fundamental equity—it’s also a silent but powerful engine ...

The United States’ government is threatening the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. 7 US warships including 4000 marines are currently facing the Venezuelan coast, and the US navy already attacked some fisher boats, which the Trump administration claimed were transporting illegal drugs. We spoke about these threats and their purpose with Roy Daza, member of the Venezuelan National Assembly. Daza is ...

By Halim Gençoğlu In Jerusalem today, archaeology has been weaponized. What should be the impartial study of the past has been turned into a tool of identity politics, land grabs, and sovereignty claims. Cultural heritage is not only being destroyed—it is being rewritten. And nowhere is this clearer than in the battle over Jerusalem, where history itself has become the ...

The main topic on Türkiye’s agenda last week was President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s trip to New York to attend the 80th United Nations General Assembly and the meetings he held on that occasion. The most prominent item in Erdoğan’s New York program was his meeting with United States President Donald Trump at the White House and, in that context, the ...