Immanuel Wallerstein

Most of the world think that the U.S. policy in Iraq has been a political failure. Even a majority of the U.S. electorate seems to think so, according to the latest polls. This does not seem to faze the Bush regime, which argues (and may even really believe) that its policy has been a great success.

In August, 2004, the Pew polling agency released a poll, co-sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), about attitudes of U.S. voters on current world affairs issues. They discovered an unusually high degree of concern about world issues (as compared say to economic issues).

East Asia is the locus of three countries - China, Korea, and Japan - which have long and related civilizational heritages.

Everyone wants to know, including Americans. Once, not long ago, the world was divided between those who hailed the United States as a leader of the world's forces for human freedom, and those who saw it as an imperialist power, an opponent of what it pretends to defend.

Türkiye Avrupalı mı? Türkiye bir gün Avrupa Birliği'nin bir parçası olarak kabul edilecek mi? En azından bir yirmi (belki de elli) yıldır ortada olan bu soru Türkiye dışında çok az, Batı Avrupa'da ise daha da az ilgi görüyor. Ama bu, yaklaşan on yılların önemli jeopolitik konularından birisidir.

The Bush administration has created a firestorm, and both the U.S. and Israel will pay the price, which is scarcely the scenario the neo-cons had envisaged.

Will Turkey be accepted as part of the European Union? This question, which has been lingering for a good twenty (if not fifty) years, gets very little attention outside of Turkey and to a much lesser extent in western Europe.

The centrist, Establishment elements in the United States, who all supported the U.S. president's decision, and if in Congress voted for it, are now all very queasy, and they do not know what position to take.

The challenge to the U.S. occupation of Iraq has suddenly become serious. The media and politicians alike, across the world and inside the United States, are for the first time taking seriously the question, can the U.S. prevail in Iraq?

In a world where many countries have sad tales to tell, Haiti is quite possibly at the top of the list. In the eighteenth century, Haiti (then known at St.-Domingue) was the jewel in the crown of the French empire.

Bush's standing in the polls fell immediately, and even quite conservative commentators are upset by Kay's findings and by the fact that the U.S. went to war on false pretenses. Everyone now wants to know how U.S. intelligence went awry, as if that were the problem.

The recent 4th meeting of the World Social Forum (WSF) in Mumbai (India) - Jan. 16-21, 2004 - was a big step forward in the steadily rising strength of the World Social Forum. In five years, it has become a major actor on the world scene.

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) has done an exhaustive study of the evidence on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Saddam Hussein's Iraq and found that it "was not an immediate threat," exactly the opposite of what the Bush regime had contended.

"Birden, açıkça bir ABD icadı ve unutulmaz başarısı olan WTO, ABD'nin omuzuna tünemiş bir akbaba gibi görünmeye başladı. Serbest ticaret bir harika tabii ki, en azından onun olumsuz yanlarını taşımak zorunda olmayanlar için."

The debate about free trade versus protectionism has been going on for 500 years, all through the history of our modern world-system.

The sudden change in U.S. policy in Iraq concerning the holding of elections brings to the fore the question of what is the future of Iraq.

The uprising in Bolivia which ousted a president attracted an unusually large amount of coverage in North American and European newspapers. In a way, this is surprising, since countries like Bolivia are normally ignored (or given minor coverage) even in the best newspapers.

Terrorism is usually defined as acts perpetrated against a category of victims with the objective of sowing terror, that is, excessive fear on the part of others in the category of the victims. It is done in the attempt to make these others change their future behavior.

Cancun is more than just a passing geopolitical battle. It represents the interment of a neo-liberal offensive that started in the 1970s. To understand the importance of the event, we have to go back to the beginning.

Once again, the question is being asked whether it is possible to sustain an elected left government, one that will pursue a policy in opposition to the forces of neo-liberalism, in a country of the South?

What we have is a situation in which not only the most intransigent forces on the Israeli side have the upper hand and the most intransigent forces on the Palestinian side have the upper hand, but the most intransigent pro-Israeli forces in the United States have the upper hand.

Metternich'in politikaları dünya muhafazakâr güçleri için 1848'de bir felakete neden olduğu için, Peel'ın mirasçıları Bush'un politikalarının aynısını hatta daha da kötüsünü yapacağından korkuyorlar ve bekliyorlar. Ve felaket ufukta.

Dolar çöktüğünde, ve çökecek, her şey jeopolitik olarak değişecek. Çöken bir dolar El-Kaide'nin İkiz Kulelere karşı saldırısından çok daha önemlidir. ABD bu saldırıdan açıkça sağ olarak çıktı. Ama dolar bir kere çöktüğünde çok farklı bir ABD olacak.

This is not a question about cultural history, but about contemporary geopolitics. From 1945-2001, few persons doubted that there was something in the world political arena we could call the "West" or the "the Western world."

II. Dünya Savaşının dönüm noktalarından birinde Churchill'e savaşın sonun başlangıcını gösterip göstermediği sorulmuş.

At a turning-point in the Second World War, someone asked Winston Churchill whether the battle marked the beginning of the end. And he replied, famously, no, but it might be the end of the beginning.

Amerika Birleşik Devletleri'nin başı belada. ABD başkanı çok büyük bir kumar oynuyor ve bunu temeli çok zayıf bir konumdan yapıyor.

"Yüksek irtifadan neşter vururcasına hava saldırıları yeterli olmayacaktır. Irak'ı işgal etmek, Arap-İslam dünyasında şimdiye kadar hayal edilememiş büyüklükte bir kargaşaya sebep olacaktır... Nasıl oldu da böyle dehşet verici bir çıkmaz sokağa girdik?"

Pax Americana sona erdi. Vietnam ve Balkanlar'dan Ortadoğu'ya ve 11 Eylül'e kadar uzanan meydan okumalar, Amerikan üstünlüğünün sınırlarını ortaya koydu.