By Mehmet Enes Beşer The re-election of Donald Trump as the President of America in November 2024 has initiated a new cycle of economic nationalism, prompting every nation in the world to redesign its practice of trade. India, as a developing economy and with a checkered experience of dealing with America in the past, is at the crossroads. Trade relation ...
By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist In the global arena, there is an environment in which many standards – from human rights to nuclear conventions, from international legal norms to social conventions – are failing, increasing insecurity and shaking the foundations of the so-called “rules-based” world order. Historically speaking, the global order has been shaped by two major historical turning points, ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen As international dynamics shift toward a multipolar world and a new global order emerges, the EU is becoming increasingly isolated. Being in a geopolitically and geostrategically fragile position, the EU finds itself floundering, anxious, and in search of its place in the face of the US, Russia, and China. In past geopolitical crises like those in ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer As America doubles down on its dependence on tariffs and unilateral trade measures in the name of “economic security,” the world is now retaliating in kind—not by overt confrontation, but by subtle, incremental drifting apart. A process years in the making has now reached a new phase: de-Americanization of global trade. It is not a call ...
By Orçun Göktürk, Beijing / China President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, paid visits to Vietnam, Malaysia, and Cambodia during a period when the trade war with the United States was intensifying. These countries hold great significance for China. Since the first trade war that began in 2017, these three countries have become major hubs for investments ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer The global geopolitical landscape is undergoing significant transformations, prompting regional blocs like the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to reassess their strategic alignments. A notable development in this context is the deepening engagement between ASEAN member states and the BRICS consortium—comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. This evolving relationship reflects ASEAN’s adaptive strategies ...
By Onur Sinan Güzaltan Donald Trump’s efforts to strike a deal with Russia and his parallel policies of distancing himself from the current governments in Europe have accelerated the search for a new direction on the continent. Developments in French politics constitute an important example to understand this European-wide search. France’s polarization reflecting Europe’s uncertainty The current President of France, ...
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” ...