By Mehmet Enes Beşer Over the last few years, China has been marketing the vision of a “Community of Shared Future” (命运共同体, mingyun gongtongti) as part of the support columns of foreign policy rhetoric. First articulated by President Xi Jinping amidst controversy about evolving world governance, the vision has since been extended to regional domains, no less China-Southeast Asia relations. ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer Over the decades after World War II, Japan worked against the tide to restore its reputation in Southeast Asia. Recollections of occupation, suffering, and brutality throughout the war years cast a dark shadow over local relations. But Japan is seen today across Southeast Asia no longer as a past aggressor power, but more as a stable ...
Alain Soral… He is one of the most debated thinkers in France. His ideas are frequently voiced within anti-globalization left and right political movements. Convicted in France for thought crimes, Soral continues to live in exile. I spoke with Soral about the political future of France, US-Europe relations, Trump’s America, developments in West Asia, geopolitical realities, and class struggle. The ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer The European Union is at a crossroads geopolitically. As Washington and Beijing move closer, Europe is being increasingly pushed to remain in sync with a less-than-self-guided strategic agenda. Transatlantic unity is essential, but the EU’s China policy has become increasingly derivative—more reflective of what Washington desires than a hard-headed accounting of European interests. This passive outsourcing ...
When you look at the Mercator map head-on, Greenland appears to sit at the edge of the world, in a remote and marginal location. But take a look instead at Richard Edes Harrison’s maps “The Divided World” (published in 1941) and “One World One War” (published in 1942). According to Cornell University Library’s Digital Collections, published in Fortune Magazine for ...
By Beto Cremonte* – Amid sustained economic growth and a discourse of modernization, Tanzania faces its darkest hour since independence. Youth protests, state repression, and external interests raise a larger question: are we witnessing a popular uprising or the beginning of a new color revolution? In Africa, we are witnessing a wave of sovereignist uprisings, color revolutions, and mobilizations resisting ...
Although it may seem like a cliché, it’s worth recalling for the purposes of this analysis the prophecy of the English geopolitician Halford John MacKinder, who stated at the beginning of the 19th century that “whoever dominates Central Asia dominates Eurasia, and whoever dominates Eurasia dominates the world.” His views, outlined in the “Heartland Theory,” established that control of the ...
The Center for National Strategy (USMER) has organized an international conference on the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea on July 18 and 19 in Istanbul, Türkiye. Today, we present the speech of Prof. Dr. Fahri Erenel- Istinye University Faculty Member. I express my deep respect for those who were mercilessly killed, who were made to suffer hunger under the ...
Cyprus is not merely an island in the Eastern Mediterranean; it is a strategic linchpin where geopolitical, military, and economic interests converge. Positioned at the crossroads of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, Cyprus has historically been a battleground for empires and a focal point for regional powers. In the modern era, it has become a critical node in ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer As the global interest remains captivated by great power competition and regional fault lines in the Indo-Pacific, one underappreciated actor remains a quietly salient factor in Chinese strategic thinking: Myanmar. Conventional wisdom had it that Myanmar sat at the periphery of high-order geopolitics, when in fact, it sits at the center of Beijing’s vision of a ...
United World International expert, Political Scientist Onur Sinan Güzaltan held a conference at Voronezh Technical University in Russia on the geopolitical evaluation of Türkiye-Russia relations in scope of “Russian Summer Festival”. We are sharing the English translation of the shortened and important points of Güzaltan’s speech at the conference with our valued readers. Türkiye and Russia are two big countries ...
By Halil Özsaraç, (Ret.) Turkish Staff Navy Captain On April 29, 2025, Türkiye’s Minister of Transport and Infrastructure announced that Türkiye had become a “strategic partner” of the Three Seas Initiative. The Three Seas Initiative is an alliance established a decade ago in the region spanning the Baltic, Black, and Adriatic Seas in Central and Eastern Europe. The Initiative includes ...