By Cemil Gözel Spain’s distanced approach to the Iran–US/Israel war has earned significant recognition, particularly in Türkiye. The Madrid administration first revealed its anti-war position with the statements of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, and soon after, it announced that the US cannot use its bases on Spanish soil for this war. The historical context of Spain’s anti-war stance Explaining Spain’s ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer At a time when the global Muslim world is seeking answers to questions of governance, identity, and development, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s legacy is that he was a revolutionary—and a solitary—break with tradition. His vision of secular nationalism, institutional modernism, and uncompromising state-building remade the post-Ottoman Turkish Republic and set the world a revolutionary ideological template. Bangladesh, ...

By Dr. Emre Senbabaoglu, International Law Expert On February 28, 2026, the Iran War began with the attacks launched by the US and Israel against Iran. Looking at the 250-year history of the US, founded in 1776, we see that 233 of those years were spent at war. In other words, the United States has lived in peace for only ...

From Athens / Greece US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio called in his speech in the Munich Security Conference to “revive the Western Civilization”. Amid the war in West Asia, western countries are mounting up their military deployment to the Eastern Mediterranean, while tensions are increasing between Greece and Türkiye over the positioning of air defenses on some Greek islands. ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer Throughout the years of heightened strategic rivalry between China and the United States, Southeast Asia is normally portrayed as a geopolitics arena—a theater wherein the two great powers struggle over influence, domination, and strategic depth. That dyadic picture, however, marginalizes the sophistication of Southeast Asian statecraft. Rather than being content to remain mere pawns in a ...

Imagine a world in which a political leader faces serious public controversies about his past associations yet continues to present himself as a moral authority on democracy and global order. Around the world, people question the gap between rhetoric and responsibility. The name at the center of many of these debates is Donald Trump. For critics, the issue is not ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer The economic development journey of ASEAN has conventionally been accounted for by the narrative of trade liberalization, manufacturing performance, and demographic dividends. But as the region is facing the double challenge of post-pandemic recovery and climate change, an even higher level of economic transformation is being outlined—one founded on financial inclusion, green trade, and sustainable natural ...

By Mitsuko Sakagami, from Japan Published in Shiso-Undo, March 2026 The fiscal policy of the TAKAICHI Sanae administration is said to be a revival of “Abenomics” by the former prime minister ABE Shinzo, but the situation has changed significantly. Abenomics was built on the “three arrows”—monetary easing, fiscal stimulus, and growth strategy—but the arrow that ran through the entire policy ...

By Azar Mahdavan, from Tehran / Iran “You will end up helpless.” This is a phrase often quoted from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s former leader, in reference to the United States and Israel. Now, more than ten days after the start of military confrontations involving Iran, the United States and Israel, political developments inside Iran have also drawn the attention ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer Basking in the sunshine, increasing electric demand, and international pressure building to transition to cleaner energy, ASEAN is well-placed to emerge as a solar power leader. On Philippine rooftops, on rolling central Vietnamese plains, solar photovoltaics (PV) is one of the most promising green growth paths forward. But with this dormant potential, solar power remains underexploited ...

Cem Gürdeniz, a retired Rear Admiral of the Turkish Navy and one of the coiners of the term “Blue Homeland” (Mavi Vatan) shared his views on the developments in the Strait of Hormuz on the social platform X. We present Gürdeniz’s analysis, translated into English. — A massive maritime traffic crisis has paralyzed the Strait of Hormuz. Current shipping data ...

On February 28, the US and Israel launched an assault on Iran. The whole world’s gaze is on Iran. Iran has become the number one agenda also in Europe. While the European Union and its leading member states have backed the assault on Iran, a wide array of parties, leaders, and public intellectuals across the continent have stood by Iran ...