Eurasia News

  I n late March 2025, Türkiye once again captured global headlines amid mass protests organised by the main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), in major cities including Istanbul , Ankara and Izmir. Observers are struggling to understand what is happening in the country, but this situation is not unique to Türkiye. The entire global political stage is marked by ambiguity. The world has been affected by a series of profound crises over the past fifteen years and is undergoing a period of radical transformation. The impact of this shift is visible across nations — the political course taken by former US President  Donald Trump  being just one example of such changes. Following several days of heightened tension and political turmoil triggered by the arrest of Istanbul Mayor  Ekrem İmamoğlu , the protests began to lose momentum. This was particularly evident in Türkiye’s largest city, Istanbul, after formal charges of corruption and embezzlement...

  The future of European security depends on recognizing that cooperative security is the only sustainable approach to preventing conflict. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) provides a ready-made framework for de-escalation, but it has remained underutilized in favour of North-Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s (NATO) threat-based security architecture. The result has been perpetual security dilemmas, particularly in Eastern Europe, where NATO expansion has triggered counter-reactions from Russia. By contrast, t he Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ ( ASEAN ) diplomatic model, heavily influenced by the Helsinki Process (1972-1975), has managed to prevent a security dilemma in Southeast Asia—despite the existence of major territorial disputes in the South China Sea.  Rather than following the European pattern of securitizing every conflict, ASEAN has institutionalized a culture of trust and mutual accommodation among elites, leading to the avoi...

  Il Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri pro tempore, On. Giorgia Meloni , parla di "valori comuni" tra Italia e Stati Uniti d'America , il Presidente della Repubblica, Sergio Mattarella , si riferisce spesso ai "valori comuni" dell' Unione Europea , l' Occidente intero (Nato, Unione Europea etc.) parla della necessitá della difesa dei nostri "valori", attraverso il sostegno militare alla Repubblica di Ucraina, contro il pericolo rappresentato dalla Federazione Russa e dal suo Presidente Vladimir Putin . Tutti ad invocare questa "categoria mitologica", ma concretamente in che cosa consistono i c.d. "valori"?  É possibile pervenire ad una teoria oggettiva dei valori? Il sostantivo " valore ", é bene non dimenticarlo, nasce all'interno del contesto economico, sebbene finisca, in breve tempo, per sconfinare nella sfera sociale, politica e giuridica (in merito a quest'ultimo aspetto si pensi al neocostituz...

  A t the summit held on 3-4 July 2024 in the Kazakh capital, Astana , the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) signed the " Astana Declaration , " formally approving Belarus's accession to the organisation as its tenth member state . Belarus's membership in this organisation holds a strategic geopolitical dimension, as the country borders three EU member states, as well as Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. This summit marked the inaugural meeting in the " SCO Plus " format, which includes 10 member states and 14 dialogue partner states. Dialogue partner status has been available since 2008. Guest participants at the summit included the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the United Nations, and Turkmenistan. The SCO is the successor of the Shanghai Five, established in 1996 by ...