Like everything in the Middle East, the Abraham Accords are being tested by time, the weight of past conflicts, open-ended disputes, and seemingly endless wars. What began as a promise has one day turned into a mirage in the shifting desert of the Middle East. Are we witnessing the curse of the Middle East afflicting the Abrahamic agreements?! A promise ...
Ukraine carried out an attack on a school and a dormitory in the Luhansk region on the morning of May 22. According to President Vladimir Putin, at least 39 people were wounded, and six people lost their lives in the attack. Putin said the attack was not the result of an accidental targeting but was carried out deliberately. The attack ...
By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist Now entering the third month of his war with Iran, Trump has reached a critical crossroads. Hundreds of airstrikes may have killed Iran’s top-tier leaders, severely damaged its air force and navy, and depleted its missile stockpiles and production facilities, yet Iran continues to defy the U.S. Even after targeting its Arab neighbors, U.S. bases, ...
By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist The war that U.S. President Trump declared “won” in its very first week now presents a very different picture, especially when viewed from the Pentagon’s perspective. The reality on the ground has not deterred Iran but, on the contrary, has led Iran to come to the negotiating table with even greater confidence than it had ...
By Azar Mahdavan, from Tehran / Iran In recent years, alongside the intensification of tensions in the international system, the position of Russia and China in Iran’s security and strategic calculations has drawn greater attention from public opinion than ever before. Some speak of a “strategic partnership” and even a protective “umbrella” provided by Moscow and Beijing, while others warn ...
UWI writer and political scientist Dr. Onur Sinan Güzaltan discussed the future of NATO, Türkiye-NATO relations, and developments in Iran on the Türkiye-based On4TV broadcast. We present the English translation of the interview to our valued readers. The ceasefire between the US and Iran started on April 8th. More than a month has passed now. The US and Israel seem ...
The summit between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump has reignited the debate surrounding the decline of the American empire, the rise of the Chinese dragon, and Beijing’s role.The ongoing debate about who can challenge the American empire is invariably invoked. Many observers overlook the fact that, following the communist victory and the founding of the People’s ...
By Kiyoshi Hoshino (RIMPEACE Editorial Board / Part-time University Lecturer) Attack on Iran from Yokosuka This war, which began on February 28, 2026, with a preemptive strike by the US and Israeli militaries that clearly violated international law, is using US military bases in Japan as launching points. By the time the attack began, three destroyers based in Yokosuka—the USS ...
By Yiğit Saner The question of how the war against Iran will reshape relations between Tehran and the Gulf states has become one of the most critical issues on the West Asian agenda. From the very first day of the war, Iran targeted American bases in the region as well as Gulf territories from which attacks against it were launched. ...
By Azar Mahdavan, from Tehran / Iran As military tensions among Iran, the United States, and Israel have intensified in recent weeks, growing attention has been directed toward the role of major powers in managing the crisis. In this context, China—one of Iran’s most important strategic partners and simultaneously a major actor with extensive interests across the Middle East—has adopted ...
By Yunus Emre Özgün As the Transatlantic security architecture buckles under the weight of an impending ‘economic tsunami,’ the United States faces a brutal domestic reckoning over its unconditional support for Israel. In an exclusive interview with UWI, former CIA analyst and US State Department’s counterterrorism planner and advisor Larry J. Johnson dissects the shattering of American unipolarity, the devastating ...
By Michael Roberts * Last week, crude oil prices in Asia hit a new high at $125/b amid reports that the US was considering military action against Iran to break the deadlock in peace talks. The global average oil price also reached $113/b, the highest since the post-COVID pandemic slump in 2022. In the end, Trump backed off (for now) ...