Speech of Prof. Liu Xu at the conference on NATO and Global Security. 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. Prof. Liu Xu, Deputy Director of the Center of Investigation for ...
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Guérot, a renowned German political scientist, on the downfall of the European Republic, the left’s surrender to tech-feudalism, and why the global neo-liberal order must fall to prevent a new era of inverted totalitarianism. By Yunus Emre Özgün Europe is trapped in a structural paradox. The post-Cold War architecture of the continent is unraveling under the weight ...
Either the forces defending the Western-centered world, unipolarity and American hegemony will prevail, or the forces favoring the tendency toward multipolarity. 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 ...
Chinese Experts Comment on Leaders’ Visits to Beijing By Özgür Altinbaş China has recently experienced significant diplomatic traffic. All leaders of the United Nations Security Council permanent members have visited China within a six-month period. The visits of US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin also drew considerable attention. We discussed this process with Chinese journalist (CGTN) Xu ...
Sudan, Gaza, conflicts, competitive authoritarianism, dysfunctional global institutions, and the end of the era of exceptionalism! By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist 2025 was not only a challenging year geopolitically, but also a year that could be described as the most chaotic threshold of the last quarter-century. In summary, 2025 was a breaking point where the unsustainability of the Western-centric global ...
Leveraging the Divide By Mehmet Enes Beşer In the heightening United States–China trade war, global focus has shifted primarily to tariff schedules, supply chains shattered, and factories rebalanced. Beyond overt economic impact, though, lies a more sophisticated strategic actor edging its way into the openings. Sanctioned by the West, diplomatically isolated but globally ambitious, Russia is more than a disinterested ...
Main points of the recently published third Document on China’s Policy towards Latin America and the Caribbean By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein As if by the whims of life and unplanned adjustments of history, at the very moment that Trump was threatening Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and Marco Rubio was making clear his conviction that the Western Hemisphere belongs ...
An outlook on what 2026 may bring to a world that is on knife’s edge. By Onur Sinan Güzaltan The sidelining of hardliners in Zelenskyy’s government over corruption allegations, US Secretary of State Rubio’s refusal to attend the NATO summit, corruption probes against the figures in Brussels who are pro-war against Russia, the distance put between NATO and Europe in ...
Strategic autonomy knocks at the door Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / China At the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, the two sides reached a truce on trade. Yet behind this agreement lies a deeper reality: a structural transformation in U.S.–China relations that has become irreversible. The old order is dying, ...
Global context and probability of a US invasion of Venezuela. By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein I would like to offer some guidelines that will contribute to understanding Trump’s war against Venezuela and its insertion into regional and global dynamics. I believe this situation must be viewed from two dimensions: the international and the domestic for the United States. Firstly, I think ...