The degrading treatment inflicted upon the African participants of the exhibition, the racist stereotypes it promoted, and the mechanisms of colonial ideology. The International Colonial Exhibition held in Paris in 1931, was a massive propaganda event celebrating the peak of the French Empire. Established in the Bois de Vincennes, the exhibition attracted approximately 8 million visitors over six months and ...
Interview with Dragana Trifković, General Director of the Center for Geostrategic Studies in Serbia By Yasin Okyay Serbia has signed a security agreement with Israel, marking a significant step forward in military cooperation between Belgrade and Tel Aviv. The agreement, approved under an “urgent procedure” by the parliamentary Defense Committee of Serbia on April 29, 2026, is essentially the formalization ...
Policy Pathways to Strengthen Value Chain Participation By Mehmet Enes Beşer Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of Southeast Asia’s economy. SMEs consist of over 97% of the total number of firms and add significantly to employment and GDP of ASEAN nations. But in spite of all their dynamism and compactness, ASEAN SMEs are still firmly under-connected into ...
The question is no longer whether the Abraham Accords will survive or disappear, but rather how they will change under the pressure of the major transformations sweeping the Middle East. 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 ...
Hundreds of local and international companies, investors, and representatives of international organizations from nearly 40 countries participated in the event. By Tehran Tapdigov, from Baku / Azerbaijan From June 1 to 3, the 31st Baku Energy Week was held at the Baku Expo Center and the Baku Congress Center. The event brought together three major industry platforms: the 31st Caspian ...
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 ...
From Theory to Transformation By Mehmet Enes Beşer President Xi Jinping first came up with the theory of “Two Mountains,” where it believes that “lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets,” in 2005. A declaration that would revolutionize economic thinking by stating that environmental protection is not the antithesis of development but an integral part of it. This philosophy ...
The geopolitical impact of the election results and the balance sheet of Petro’s movement By Prof.Dr. Fernando Esteche The results of the first round of the Colombian presidential election on May 31st are no surprise to those of us who have maintained, ever since Trump designated Petro as “next” after the operation against Maduro, that Colombia would lose these elections ...
Speech of Ghazi Abdulal, Representative of the Youth Wing of The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine on the WAYU congress in Istanbul, Türkiye By Ghazi Abdulal – Representative of the Youth Wing of The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP May 19th, 1919, is the date Mustafa Kemal Atatürk arrived in the northern Turkish city ...
If Cambodia is to chart its own independent path, then it will have to diversify its alliances, improve institutional governance, and balance the benefits of Chinese engagement with broader regional and global cooperation. By Mehmet Enes Beşer There is no other nation-state that comes close to equaling the breadth and depth of Chinese engagement in the Cambodian international relations world. ...