By Özgür Altınbaş, Gürkan Demir, Zafer Alpuğan, from Beirut / Lebanon The farewell to Hasan Nasrallah provides key insights into the new phase unfolding in Lebanon and the broader region. Despite their loss, the people of Lebanon once again displayed the same resilience and determination they have shown in the past, standing strong in the face of adversity. Even in ...

By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist/Author The world has been gradually experiencing a global change in the light of fast-paced agendas, especially in the last 5 years, and the developments that have taken place clearly demonstrate that the “West and others” approach, established after World War II, is no longer real. This 5-year process, which started with the pandemic, first revealed ...

In Türkiye last week, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s call to the European Union was at the top of the agenda. Another significant topic was the meeting between Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. The 8th Ordinary Congress of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) also received extensive media coverage. Erdoğan’s call to European Union President Erdoğan ...

By Kıvanç Özdal and Tevfik Kadan Ethem Sancak, deputy chairman and head of the international relations bureau of Türkiye’s Vatan Party (Patriotic Party), answered questions from journalists Kıvanç Özdal and Tevfik Kadan. Famous businessman Sancak assessed the possible global consequences of Donald Trump’s second presidential term. According to the Turkish politician, the former US administration led the world to a ...

By Yunus Soner, Berlin / Germany Germany’s parliamentary election winner, conservative Friedrich Merz, is preparing a massive new funding package for military weapons. The investment requires state borrowing. Possible parliamentary resistance forces the future chancellor into a possible trick. Following his parliamentary victory on February 23, Chancellor-designate Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union announced talks with the Social Democratic ...

By Orçun Göktürk, Beijing / China There are no everlasting allies or enemies in international relations. With Trump’s re-election as the President of the United States after a one-term break, this rhetoric has become more frequent. Recently, experts on television have often argued that Trump’s agreement with Putin, bringing the Ukraine war to an end, creates a “danger for China” ...

By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein International events have taken an extraordinarily fast pace. I have consulted with some colleagues, and we have concluded that it is becoming difficult to follow the movement of events that are shaking, transforming and restructuring the international system at a speed never seen before in at least the last 80 years. The truth is that the ...

By Edvard Chesnokov Alexander Shenderyuk-Zhidkov is a member of Senit (the upper house of the Russian Parliament) holding the post of the First Deputy Chairman of Budget and Financial markets Committee therein. Exclusively to UWI, the 42-year old politician commented on possible peace negotiations between the Kremlin and the White House amid all the difficulties of current international affairs. Mr. ...

By Ali Mercan The German elections have provided concrete evidence of the growing global phenomenon we have been describing as “the decline of the Atlantic and the rise of Eurasia”. Movements of anti-imperialism, national sovereignty and independence have been gaining momentum across Asia, Africa, and South America. What the German elections indicate that this momentum is now gaining a new ...

by Dure Akram, Lahore / Pakistan In recent weeks, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif of Pakistan has stepped into the spotlight with his strategic outreach to Central Asian nations, seeking to fortify economic ties and elevate Pakistan’s standing within a dynamic regional trade framework. His visit to Baku—which resulted in several key agreements in trade and energy—marks a significant pivot in ...