By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein Last week we made a descriptive observation of international events, but making an analysis of them is a bit more complex. It seems to me that the difficulties come from the idea that it is possible to understand the current situation from a dichotomous vision of unipolarity vs. bipolarity and that the categories of analysis used ...
By Onur Sinan Güzaltan UWI writer and political scientist Onur Sinan Güzaltan shared his views with Sputnik Türkçe on the impact of Trump’s policies on the US-EU alliance and its consequences for the Ukraine issue. We present the interview translated into English. Following the neocon-led Biden administration, Donald Trump’s return to power has brought significant shifts to US’s foreign policy. ...
The Alternative for Germany, AfD, is considered the winner of the recent parliamentary elections in Germany. The party has more than doubled its votes to 20.8%, achieving 152 seats in the 630-member-parliament and becoming the main opposition party. We asked Krunoslav Stojakovic, expert at the German Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation, for its reasons. The interview was conducted just before the elections. The AfD ...
By Craig Murray Craig Murray is an author, broadcaster and human rights activist. He was British Ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004 and Rector of the University of Dundee from 2007 to 2010. When politicians in power are extremely unpopular, they generally turn to militarism and jingoism for a quick boost. Starmer is now the darling of ...
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” ...