Speech of Ethem Sancak, Deputy Chairman of Vatan Party and founding member of Dunya Mer, at the conference on Global Security and NATO. The World Civilizations Initiative Research Center organized an international conference on Global Security and NATO on June 26-27, 2026, in Istanbul, Türkiye, ahead of the NATO summit scheduled for 7 and 8th of July in Ankara. One ...

Professor Semih Koray’s speech at the conference on Global Security and NATO in Istanbul. The World Civilizations Initiative Research Center organized an international conference on Global Security and NATO on June 26-27, 2026, in Istanbul, Türkiye, ahead of the NATO summit scheduled for 7 and 8th of July in Ankara. One of the speeches was held by Prof. Semih Koray, ...

In the multipolar age, power belongs to countries that can organize complexity—financial channels, standards, skills, supply chains, and diplomacy—into something durable. Türkiye and Malaysia can do that together, but only if they stop treating cooperation as symbolism and start treating it as production. By Mehmet Enes Beşer Ten years back, it was simple to sum up Türkiye–Malaysia relations with diplomatic ...

Between Solidarity and Strategic Divergence By Mehmet Enes Beşer The “Global South” is a useful shorthand expression applied for decades to describe countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Oceania which have shared colonial histories, development issues, and peripheral positions in the world economy. In postcolonial solidarity rhetoric, the Global South paradigm aims to place at its center structural distortions ...

Here is the reality of dollarisation, the reshaping of energy and trade corridors. 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 how Türkiye should position itself. By Adnan Akfirat, Chairman of the Turkish-Chinese Business Development and Friendship Association On April 9, US President Trump imposed new tariffs on US imports under the name of “reciprocal tariffs”. Trump had announced that on April 2, 2025, which he called “Independence Day”, he would impose self-justified tariffs on almost every country in the ...

A New Axis of Influence in a Shifting World Order By Mehmet Enes Beşer The post-World War II international system, long founded on Western dominance, is being reshaped behind the scenes by a tide of economic ambition, political rise, and diplomatic realignment—led not by the old giants, but by a growing number of nations once confined to the margins. This ...

More than 30 experts from Eurasia, Africa and Latin America attended the council that will create regional and functional sections in 2025. 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. More than 30 experts ...

Presentation at the International Symposium “Decolonization and Cooperation in the Global South”. 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 ...

On the 26th and 27th of February, the Russian Federation hosted over 500 participants from more than 130 countries in Moscow to challenge Western hegemony in the Second Congress of the International Russophile Movement (MIR). UWI documents in the following days some speeches delivered in the congress. Today we publish the presentation of Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela. Mandela is a member ...