By Mehmet Enes Beşer New Zealand foreign policy has long been a balance between being close friends and maintaining sovereignty. In an age of heightening geopolitical rivalries, most prominently between China and the United States, New Zealand must steer the intricate challenge of balancing its security interests with long-time allies while reorienting towards high-level economic relations with China. This research ...
By Michael Roberts * Warmongering has reached fever pitch in Europe. It all started with the US under Trump deciding that paying for the military ‘protection’ of European capitals from potential enemies was not worth it. Trump wants to stop the US paying for the bulk of the financing of NATO and providing its military might and he wants to ...
Romanian presidential candidate Călin Georgescu, who is skeptical of NATO and advocates closer relations with Russia, has been denied his right to participate in the elections. The decision taken by the Central Electoral Bureau was subsequently upheld by Romania’s Constitutional Court. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Maria Cernat, President of the Institute for Media Research and Human Rights and faculty member at Titu Maiorescu University, together with Hamdi Yılmaz, ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer In 2025, artificial intelligence is no longer a technological novelty—it is a civilizational force. From reshaping global economies to redefining how societies learn, heal, work, and interact, AI is a frontier with profound implications. At the heart of this global shift lies a question that transcends hardware and code: will the world’s major powers wield AI ...
By Yunus Soner, Berlin / Germany The genocide against the Palestinians continues to spark protests around the world. Some countries repress them in a way that calls into question their own democratic culture. The Berlin district of Neukölln is home to 160,000 people, a quarter of them Muslims from Türkiye and Arab countries, including Palestine. These days, their children are ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen On February 26, 2025, General Khalifa Haftar, the commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), which controls eastern Libya, held a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace. While the French Presidency kept this visit almost entirely out of the public eye, the General Command of the Libyan National Army declared it an ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer Trade was the banner of Western liberalism—a belief in open markets, comparative advantage, and multilateralism. For decades, the United States and the European Union preached the gospel of globalization, negotiating trade agreements, reducing tariffs, and preaching developing economies the virtues of deregulated markets. But in a disquieting turn of historical irony, it is the West—once the ...
By Adnan Akfırat, Chairman of the Turkish-Chinese Business Development and Friendship Association All newspapers in Turkiye on March 24, 2025, reported on their front pages the arrest of Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor Imamoglu for corruption. On the very same day, the headline of China’s “People’s Daily” newspaper summarized the gains of China’s “8-Point Regulation”, which started 13 years ago to fight ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer Risk of an imminent trade war between the European Union and China on electric vehicles (EVs) has increased to become arguably the most pernicious flashpoint on today’s economic landscape. This is less about gaining access to markets or marginal tariff levels—but the very conceptualization of international cooperation on clean technology, climate guardianship, and economic stability. As ...
By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist The recent strategic military deployments of the US, the statements made by the genocidal Netanyahu-led Israeli government and the regional policies of the US under the Trump administration show that preparations are being made for a major military operation. In particular, the deployment of B-2 bombers by the US military to Diego Garcia, a US ...