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The MacGuffin Presidency
As many Americans get prepared for the End of Times on January 20th with the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump and even larger swaths...
Lebanon and Syria: Stuck between a rock and a hard place on natural gas
The East Mediterranean’s gas resources can promote cooperation, resolve conflicts and turn the region into an energy hub presenting new prospects for Lebanon and...
Brazil’s Locomotive Breath
The process of growth and modernization in Brazil has been always described as an example to be followed by other developing countries. Nevertheless, the...
The Unfinished agenda of 2016’ Global Politics and expectations of 2017
The unstoppable flow of new issues in international relations (IR) always pushes aside present and past crises. The entrance of these modern day challenges...
Are Free-Floating Exchange Rate Regimes Advantageous or Disadvantageous for International Trade Growth?
In light of the termination of the US dollar convertibility to gold (end of the Breton Woods exchange rate system, 1971-73), there has been...
NSG and India: Continues to hang fire
India’s bid to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) cartel that controls nuclear exports – failed in this group’s past plenary sessions. This consistent...
Trump vs. The Robots: US jobs and Promises
Among political observers, there is a widespread notion that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will inherit an economy in the best of shape. Inflation is...
Why We Fail in Energy-Saving?
Behavioural evidence identifies barriers such as procrastination to be potential determinants for an environmentally-friendly behaviour (Grubb et al., 2009). In this line, McNamara &...
Market Insights: A new year full of challenges
A new year—new issues, new aims and ambitions. In the first snippet of Market Insights let us see what are the most pressing issues...
The policy of artificial scarcity of currency
Herodotus tells us that it was Croesus, King of Lydia, the land from which, according to Livy, the Etruscans came, who invented the minting...