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UR'What is the world talking about?'
The title above is not mine. I took it from a report that the Development-Oriented Strategic Research Center (KOSAM), which was established under the auspices of the Konya Chamber of Commerce and KTO Karatay University, started to publish regularly. The report includes the work of 83 leading think tanks operating in 23 countries in different parts of the world. In the report, which is published twice a month, it is possible to follow the global agenda through the eyes of think tanks, while at the same time, it is possible to predict the topics that will be important in the near and distant future.
ECONOMY AGENDA OF THINK-TANKS
The economy is one of the main areas of study in KOSAM's report. Apart from this, studies on policy, environment, and social issues were also examined. In October, global inflation is one of the main topics that think tanks on the economy discussed. Of course, think tanks have given wide space to recession concerns. In fact, the German think tank IFO specifically examined the German glass industry and described it as a "dark future". The issue of recession and production disruption in the European industry due to the energy crisis is now taken for granted.
RUSSIA DOMINATES AGENDA IN FOREIGN POLICY
In October, we see that the most talked-about topic by think tanks in the field of foreign policy is Russia in general and Putin in particular. Very interesting studies on Russia's energy policy, the EU's dependence on Russian gas, and Putin's Iran policy are examined. From this point of view, it is not difficult to predict that there will be more news about Iran in the coming period.
Meanwhile, think tanks based in the U.S. and the UK have discussed and evaluated the change of prime ministers in the UK in detail. Of course, the economic policy dimension of the issue is extremely important.
IMPORTANCE ATTACHED TO AGRICULTURE
Agriculture is one of the main agendas of the leading think tanks that are on KOSAM's radar. There are serious findings about the food crisis, hunger, and productivity in agriculture. Attention was drawn to a very serious crisis for the near future. There is a detailed study of the risks posed by desert locusts, which live in East Africa, Near East, and South West Asia and can travel up to 1000 kilometers in a week. In other words, we may be in a period in which not only risks such as energy, fertilizer, or war but also plant pests will pose serious risks in food.
Meanwhile, the climate crisis has also been identified as a risk factor that triggers the hunger storm. At this point, it has also been evaluated with data that the problem of access to food, which emerged due to the Russia-Ukraine War, is a subject that triggers hunger.
THE CHANGING AGENDA OF THE WORLD
The working subjects of think tanks are extremely important in terms of providing “insight”. In addition, the topics examined provide an important "foresight" in terms of understanding the near future. Since I have been following the aforementioned report of KOSAM, which examines the studies of think tanks, it is possible to make important observations on both issues.
It is possible to explain one of these determinations as follows: While the main agenda of think tanks in the world was only the war and its effects in the past months, a large space has begun to be allocated to other fields in this period. Again, while focusing on the energy crisis in the past, now it is focused on other problems that the energy crisis will cause.
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