By Şafak Erdem We conducted a comprehensive interview with Harley Schlanger, Vice President of the Schiller Institute in the US. In the first part of the interview Schlanger addresses the issues of polarized society, “the party of war”, the differences of the two parties in terms of economic policy, the power of monopolies in economy and politics and the average ...
By Ana Laura Dagorret* Trump’s arrest in New York was probably one of the top news stories of the week. Major media outlets in the United States and around the world reflected the event with live broadcasts, analysis from legal and political specialists and speculation about the former president’s future ahead of next year’s elections. However, the story was more ...
We are on the 20th anniversary of the invasion and brutal looting of Iraq. These 20 years have caused more impact and changes in the Middle East and the wider geography than perhaps any other period of comparable length. The powers were changed, the presidents who came to power by election or who ruled for many years with the support ...
States and state systems have a life cycle just like human beings, say experts like Ibn Khaldun. In fact, one can determine that phenomenon on one’s own even without the likes of Ibn Khaldun. Even a brief glance at all the states throughout recorded history can confirm this “cycle of life” very clearly. This brief introduction refers to the current ...
By Prof. Dr. Mehmet Yuva * Recall the Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiative (BMENA): In the early 1990s, Soviet Russia and the states subordinate to it collapsed. The US strongly penetrated the new states that broke away from the Soviet Union. Washington used the Fethullah Gulen Gladio, NGOs, Saudi funds and educational institutions in Türkiye very effectively to ...
By Işıkgün Akfırat and Latif Bolat Matthew Crosston, the Inaugural Director of the National Security and Military Studies Institute at Austin Peay State University from the USA, provided an exclusive interview to United World International about the Russian military operation in Ukraine. Crosston teaches at Fort Campbell, one of the most important installations of the US Army where the famous ...
I was writing an article commenting on the recent Biden – Putin meeting in Geneva, which I consider a first – even if it remains very fragile – victory in the struggle of humanity to confront the terrible threats to its own existence, when I heard the news about the incident between the British and the Russian Navy in the ...