By Mehmet Enes Beşer The global order has experienced rapid geopolitical and economic changes over recent decades. The post-World War II international order dominated by the Western world by institutions such as the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank is also challenged to a larger extent by a shifting world order. The third world is ...
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 While the United States retreats inward, bedeviled by electoral division, budgetary crisis politics, and a protectionist revival of economic nationalism, fresh geopolitical momentum is building elsewhere. Across the Asian region and beyond, emerging and middle powers are increasingly reconfiguring the forms of international order—not so much by glittering declarations, and more so through persistent agential claims-making, ...
US Vice-president J.D. Vance conducted a two-day-visit to the South Caucasus, meeting with the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. During both visits, the US signed fundamental agreements with its counterparts. In Armenia, cooperation on nuclear energy and the sales of drones were agreed upon. In Azerbaijan, an agreement of lifting the relations to the strategic ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer The world is being remade at its roots. As Western dominance declines, the Global South looks to emerging poles of power—China and India above all else—as possible sponsors of a more inclusive and just world order. These two regional giants, who collectively harbor more than a third of humanity, not only wield gigantic economic and geopolitical ...
Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist / Author Hosted by China, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit had a mission beyond being merely a regional security meeting, unlike previous summits. The summit drew attention as the most explicit challenge to the Western-centric global order established after the Second World War and a clear sign of the process of its dissolution. Undoubtedly, the world ...
By Adnan Akfirat, Chairman of the Turkish-Chinese Business Development and Friendship Association On April 9, US President Trump imposed new tariffs on US imports under the name of “reciprocal tariffs”. Trump had announced that on April 2, 2025, which he called “Independence Day”, he would impose self-justified tariffs on almost every country in the world. China, declaring that it would ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer The post-World War II international system, long founded on Western dominance, is being reshaped behind the scenes by a tide of economic ambition, political rise, and diplomatic realignment—led not by the old giants, but by a growing number of nations once confined to the margins. This new power, collectively known as the Global South, is now ...
The first meeting of the Expert Council of the Standing Committee of the Forum of supporters of the struggle against modern practices of neocolonialism ‘For Freedom of Nations!’ was held upon invitation and under auspices of United Russia, the country’s governing political party, on 17 December 2024. More than 30 experts from Eurasia, Africa and Latin America attended the first ...
Shanghai, November 12, 2024 Dear colleagues and friends, We have been invited to this momentous event on “Decolonization and Global Cooperation” at a time when the world is struggling in a crisis apparently advancing in a transition to a better world. Various manifestations point to this path, where the world will no longer be one of Western global hegemony. Those ...
On the 26th and 27th of February, the Russian Federation hosted over 500 participants from more than 130 countries in Moscow to challenge Western hegemony in the Second Congress of the International Russophile Movement (MIR). UWI documents in the following days some speeches delivered in the congress. Today we publish the presentation of Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela. Mandela is a member ...
Having been debated already for a long time, the reform of the United Nations and specifically its Security Council has gotten on the agenda within the Gaza Conflict, as the United States used its veto power and – at least politically – paralyzed the institution. We had the chance to interview Hans von Sponeck. Von Sponeck worked for 30 years ...