Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / China At the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, the two sides reached a truce on trade. Yet behind this agreement lies a deeper reality: a structural transformation in U.S.–China relations that has become irreversible. The old order is dying, and in its place emerges an ...
By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein I would like to offer some guidelines that will contribute to understanding Trump’s war against Venezuela and its insertion into regional and global dynamics. I believe this situation must be viewed from two dimensions: the international and the domestic for the United States. Firstly, I think it’s necessary to say that in today’s world, no event ...
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 ...
Violence becomes more and more the predominant feature of global politics. International violence takes on the form of war, for instance in Israel’s attack on Palestine, resulting in a genocide. Simultaneously, Western countries increasingly use the threat of war to pursue their interests, be it with NATO threatening to mount up at Russian borders, the US and allied navies patrolling ...
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 Alessandro Fanetti, responsible for Latin America and the Caribbean in the Italian Eurasia and Mediterranean Studies Centre (CeSEM). First of all, I would like to extend warm ...
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 Yıldıran Acar, Political Scientist The Beginning of the Summit and Pre-Meeting Signals The announcement of the Alaska Summit effectively froze the global political stage. Who would participate, what the agenda would include, and whether the focus would remain on the war in Ukraine or expand to other issues quickly became matters of speculation. The confirmation that the meeting would ...
By Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / China The recent China–EU summit held in Beijing was remarkable in many aspects — from its shortened duration to its content, from leaders’ statements to the diplomatic tone. Initially planned as a two-day event, the summit was reduced to one day at China’s request. This is not just a scheduling change but should be ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer International attention for much of the 21st century has centered on China’s economic ascendance. With its hyper-growth, global trade network, and wide-ranging Belt and Road Initiative, China has begun to challenge the United States on the most critical economic metrics. Less remarked but more in sight is that China is also making a low-key but determined ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer The United States dominated Southeast Asia by sheer power and imposed its will through military alliances, naval presence, and economics for decades. While Washington presents its presence as a stabilizing one for freedom of seas, open marketplaces, and democratic values, too many of its actions look more like strategic hegemony and less like cooperative leadership. But ...