Teori, monthly theoretical political, geopolitics and international relations analysis magazine from Türkiye, spoke with Pierre Duval, a French journalist, political analyst and contributor to Observateur Continental, about the state of the European economy, US-EU relations, the US-Israeli attack on Iran, the difficulties of Europe’s turn towards Asia and the future of Europe. The interview was conducted for Teori by Ali ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer While there are several visible economic engines in the Philippine economy, such as services, consumption, construction, and urbanization, the existence of yet another important engine of economic growth has been obscured by geography and the fact that it operates in part outside the country – namely, the Filipino diaspora. It provides foreign income, demand stimulation, support ...

By Prof. Dr. Atakan Hatipoğlu, Faculty Member of Political and Social Sciences, Aydın Adnan Menderes University The international conference entitled “The Alliance to Prevent a Great War,” organized by the World Civilizations Initiative Research Center, was held at the Meyra Palace Hotel in Ankara on 18–19 July 2026. UWI will present the speeches held on the conference during the coming ...

By Adem Kılıç, Political Scientist The joint defense agreement signed recently in Mecca by Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan should be regarded as an agreement that will have major implications not only for the region but also for the emerging new world order. Although global media and various actors have focused particularly on the provision that “an armed attack against ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer There is no doubt that India’s economic rise is becoming a significant area of interest in academic and political circles. Against the backdrop of global turbulence and GDP growth in the region of 6-7 percent, India is presented as a case study of the country that has successfully recovered from the pandemic shock, attracted massive foreign ...

Prof. Dr. Şükrü Sina Gürel, Former Deputy Prime Minister, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs The international conference entitled “The Alliance to Prevent a Great War,” organized by the World Civilizations Initiative Research Center, was held at the Meyra Palace Hotel in Ankara on 18–19 July 2026. UWI will present the speeches held on the conference during the coming days. The ...

By Mahir Alp Yücel On August 3, two Türkiye’s-flagged vessels—the Yaşar and the Nadezhda—operated by Samsun-based Kalyoncu Shipping, came under attack by Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the Black Sea. The ships carried a combined crew of 22, including 13 Türkiye’s nationals. According to media reports, four individuals sustained injuries, three of whom are citizens of the Republic of ...

Raphael Lemkin was a Polish-Jewish jurist who coined the term “genocide“ in 1944. Today, he is widely regarded as the intellectual architect of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. However, research conducted over the past two decades has demonstrated that Lemkin was not merely a legal scholar concerned with the Holocaust. An examination of ...

By Mehmet Enes Beşer A small, tropical, island nation lying at the convergence of the Indian Ocean in the Maldivian chain of white beaches and turquoise water is far from the idyllic destination that tourists imagine. Instead, it represents a country that has emerged as a power player in the Indo-Pacific political landscape, with foreign policies that play an increasingly ...

The forty-day war that the United States launched against Iran on February 28, regardless of whether it reignites in the near future, has ushered in a new era in the regional security architecture of West Asia. The principal facts demonstrated by the recent war were, first, that Iran is not a country that can easily be eliminated or absorbed. Over ...