By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein If conquest and forced colonization were a misfortune for the peoples of the South, the fact that the Spanish reached vast regions of America before other colonial powers was a double tragedy. At the end of the 15th century, Spain was in the process of transition to the Modern Age, lagging behind much of Europe in ...
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 Orçun Göktürk, Beijing / China There are no everlasting allies or enemies in international relations. With Trump’s re-election as the President of the United States after a one-term break, this rhetoric has become more frequent. Recently, experts on television have often argued that Trump’s agreement with Putin, bringing the Ukraine war to an end, creates a “danger for China” ...
By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein International events have taken an extraordinarily fast pace. I have consulted with some colleagues, and we have concluded that it is becoming difficult to follow the movement of events that are shaking, transforming and restructuring the international system at a speed never seen before in at least the last 80 years. The truth is that the ...
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 Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist/Author The liberal rules-based international order built and maintained in the years after the Second World War is disintegrating at an accelerating pace. After a period of “friendship” following the end of the Cold War, great power rivalry has returned with a vengeance to the global arena. The Trump administration clearly emphasized the return of great ...
By Mehmet Perinçek 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 on 17 December 2024, hosted by Russia’s ruling party ‘United Russia’. More than 30 experts from Eurasia, Africa and Latin America attended the first workshop. From Türkiye, ...
Azerbaijani site News.az published an interview with United World International author Mehmet Perinçek. Below we republish the interview. What role does the West’s geopolitical strategy play in the current conflict in Ukraine, and what are the main criticisms of this strategy? The West’s geopolitical strategy plays a pivotal role in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Critics argue that this strategy ...
By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein 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 ...
By Hakan Topkurulu Today, the foundation of the world economic system is the Atlantic system headed by the USA. The other countries at the top of this system are Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, and other western European countries led by Germany and France, as well as the United Kingdom and Japan, Canada and Australia (South Korea has also started ...