By Özgür Altinbaş China has recently experienced significant diplomatic traffic. All leaders of the United Nations Security Council permanent members have visited China within a six-month period. The visits of US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin also drew considerable attention. We discussed this process with Chinese journalist (CGTN) Xu Yawen and Han Hua, co-founder and Secretary-General of ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s reference to the “Thucydides Trap” during US President Donald Trump’s latest visit to China reverberated across the world. The concept quickly attracted wide attention, with a wave of explanations and commentary. Yet this was not the first time Xi had spoken of the “Thucydides Trap”; he had used it many times before in his speeches and ...
UWI author, historian, and political scientist Associate Professor Mehmet Perinçek joined CGTN Türk Radio as a guest to evaluate Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 19-20th May visit to China. — Changes not seen for 100 years Dr. Perinçek, let’s start with your general evaluation. What do you think this visit means? Putin’s visit cannot be viewed as a routine bilateral relationship. ...
By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist While the ongoing tensions in the Strait of Hormuz are currently only disrupting global energy markets, the real major impacts will emerge in the coming days. About 60 days later, the first signs began to emerge, with the surge in energy costs triggering a ripple effect across a wide range of sectors—from fertilizer shortages impacting ...
by Yunus Emre Özgün The mainstream narrative treats the current escalation in the Middle East as a localized, manageable crisis. It is not. What we are actually watching in real-time is the rapid, structural overextension of the entire Western bloc. To cut through the daily noise and diplomatic theater, I recently sat down with geopolitical analyst K.J. Noh. We broke ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer With the “America First” rhetoric back on the world stage, an old unease has come back to global institutions. At its core, this slogan promotes a transactional, zero-sum approach to world affairs—one where one power’s national interest takes precedence over collective responsibility. For the majority of nations in the Global South, this vision is less an ...
The United States has deliberately incited a war against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran’s reactions following the US assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamanei came as no surprise to Washington. Contrary to what some argue, I do not share the idea that the US was expecting a “regime collapse” in Iran following the assassination. One does not need deep ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer The post-Cold War dream of an American global order—liberal in ideology, capitalist in architecture, and technocratic in tone—was once celebrated as universal. That order, built on the shoulders of international institutions and trading regimes crafted in Washington, New York, and Geneva, held out the prospect of prosperity through union and stability through conformity. That promise is ...
Political scientist and UWI writer Onur Sinan Güzaltan discussed the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro with Türkiye-based Meltem TV. How do you assess the US attacks on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Maduro? Even calling the US a rogue state to describe this action would be an understatement. We are talking about the abduction of the president of ...
The attack on Venezuela once again laid bare a fact: the Western world, the Atlantic world, has completely abandoned its founding principles. With this attack, the death of a liberalism that has long been on life support is effectively being declared. Western civilization was built on principles such as the protection of life and property, security of trade, and the ...
By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist The US recently published its new ‘National Security Strategy Document,’ which sets out its defense and foreign policy direction. Although the strategy document emphasizes the Trump administration’s global perspective and non-interventionist policies centered on ‘regional dominance’ and ‘the nation-state concept,’ the world is witnessing the almost complete opposite of these statements being implemented on the ...
By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein The recent meeting between the presidents of Russia and the United States in Alaska has connotations that go beyond bilateral relations and delve into a perspective of global interest. It is worth saying right from the start of this analysis that the mere fact that the leaders of the two main nuclear powers meet face to ...