by Asia Pacific Task Force | Dec 15, 2025 | Commentary, Energy Security
Key Takeaways The $1 trillion surplus signals structural weakness, not strength. It reflects suppressed domestic demand, excess capacity, and policy distortions rather than superior competitiveness or healthy growth. China’s export boom is driven by one-sided...
by Asia Pacific Task Force | Dec 10, 2025 | Energy Security, Infographic
The Great Global Pivot of 2025: Analyzing the historic export boom, the shift to the Global South, and structural economic changes. Executive Summary The $1 Trillion Anomaly: In 2025, China's trade surplus broke the $1 trillion barrier for the first...
by Ilyas Gülenç | Jul 31, 2023 | Commentary, Energy Security, Environment & Climate Change
The risks posed by climate change, such as extreme weather events and losses in biodiversity, have forced security policy-makers to change their traditional security paradigms that mostly rely on power struggles among major powers. More than one billion people are...
by Ilyas Gülenç | Nov 24, 2022 | Commentary, Energy Security, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
COP 27, the EU Green Deal, and the Birth Pain of a New International Order by İlyas Gülenç* November 22, 2022 | 6 min read Introduction Ending up the fossil fuel addiction of the global economy, which is the main reason for global warming, is a challenging task...
by Ilyas Gülenç | Oct 19, 2022 | Energy Security, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics, Policy Brief
The Implications of Nord Stream-1 Explosion within the Context of the EU Green Deal by İlyas Gülenç October 18, 2022 | 8 min read Introduction The latest sabotage attacks damaging the Nord Stream-1 pipeline, which carries one-third of the imported natural gas...
by Ilyas Gülenç | Jun 24, 2022 | Energy Security, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics, Policy Brief
Green or Brown Future for The World: Geopolitical Dimensions of The Eu Green Deal by İlyas Gülenç* June 24, 2022 | 13 min read Rising energy prices, ongoing negative impacts of the pandemic, and dependence on Russian natural gas have created a harsh political...
