A world in turmoil: International relations and transatlantic power balances are changing day by day. The UN system is questioned, the Israeli genocide in Palestine leads to question marks behind international law and basic human moral values. These tendencies have consequences for the domestic shape of countries traditionally known as liberal democracies. We spoke about these issues with Coll McCail, ...
By Gökalp Erbaş There is much debate about the possible economic effects of Europe’s rearmament. When examining the discussions on this topic, the most critical question seems to be: Has there been a structural change in the economic function of the arms industry from the past to the present? The arms industry actually works to produce security, which is a ...
Ukraine has hit Russia’s strategic nuclear bombers and sabotaged rail lines. In doing so, it targeted both Russia’s new nuclear doctrine and Russian civilians. So, it’s no surprise that the Istanbul peace table fell apart without any real outcome. And now, it’s back to war… What is happening on the front lines? Russia has responded to Zelenskyy’s attacks by striking ...
By Onur Sinan Güzaltan The world keeps revolving, Swiftly, relentlessly. And it changes… A brief glance at the past month’s headlines reveals the weight of change and uncertainty. 1. Trump’s new tariffs President Trump declared a new wave of tariffs only on China, the European Union and the southern neighbors tightening his policy of “turning inward”. We are now entering ...
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 ...
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 Back in October 2022, I had started writing under the title “Will there be a new Yalta in the end?”, but I didn’t finish it. These days, with Trump’s return to the presidency, the possibility of an agreement between the United States and Russia, particularly regarding Ukraine, is being discussed. But is it conceivable for the ...
By Gökalp Erbaş The economic hardship of Western countries, especially the USA, is no longer expressed only by Asian experts. This situation has also started to be frequently mentioned by people and institutions that have important positions in the media, finance and ideological pillars of Western hegemony. We will examine some of the most important of these numerous confessional statements, ...
By Cengiz Köse In Europe, there are those who rebel against NATO and US impositions, the dominion of capital, war policies, and the scourge of poverty. From the realms of politics, academia, journalism and the arts… Here, we present 30 figures, whose voices cannot be confined within the so-called “freedom of expression” boundaries of Europe, showcasing their qualities that “transcend ...
By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein 100 years ago, in 1924, after eight months, Adolf Hitler left the prison where he had ended up after attempting a coup d’état the previous year. During his stay in prison, he outlined the first pages of his work “My Struggle” in which he explained some basic foundations of his thought, including the exacerbation of extreme ...