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Russia-Africa: Balancing Bilateral Trade
Amidst the dominating geopolitical and economic themes at the 28th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), African participants were practically in search of potential...
Trump’s Tariffs Threat to the Global South
After agreeing to suspend the “reciprocal” duties for 90 days — till early July — Trump threatened to set country-specific tariff rates. By making...
Starved of Aid: How Trump-Era Cuts Are Driving Tigray’s Displaced into Desperation
In the windswept IDP camps of Tigray, hollowed eyes stare across makeshift shelters. Once vibrant communities, now reduced to fragments of survival, are being...
Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill: Reform or Regression?
The bonhomie between the richest man in the world and the most powerful man in the world, i.e., Elon Musk and Donald Trump, collapsed...
AI and Impact on Employment in Southeast Asia
A World Economic Forum (WEF) projection in its Future of Jobs report in January 2025 stated that eleven million jobs will be created due...
Vietnam and China’s Railway Diplomacy: High-Speed Projects, Not Small Risks
In recent years, Vietnam has been promoting railway infrastructure development projects as an essential part of its strategy to modernize the economy and integrate...
Sinopec and Sri Lanka: Strategic Investment or a New Face of Dependency?
Authors: Akshita Malik and Dr. Karamala Areesh Kumar*
Sri Lanka’s economic downfall in 2022, marked by its first-ever sovereign debt default, cast a harsh spotlight...
The Strait Path between Order and Ruin
French historian Fernand Paul Achilles Baudel, in his seminal work, La Méditerranée et le Monde méditerranéen à l'époque de Philippe II (The Mediterranean and...
Israel sees Victory in Tempting Iran to Escalate Against the U.S.
Behrooz Ayaz and Dr.Julian Spencer-Churchill
Israel’s June 13 attack on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure and military leadership cannot on its own stop alleged nuclear weaponization should...
Why Now? The UK Strategic Endorsement of Morocco’s Autonomy Plan
On June 2nd, the United Kingdom issued an explicit endorsement of Morocco’s Autonomy Plan for Western Sahara, reflecting a calculated and strategic realignment of...