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Kazakhstan’s Snap Elections Called Amidst Dissent and Economic Troubles
Kazakhstan will be holding Parliamentary snap elections in March 2016 ultimately providing a mandate for autocratic President Nursultan Nazarbayev. The elections will not produce...
The global power shift and the Role of Asian Players
The world of globalization has brought enormous veiled opportunities and challenges for the each of the developed, developing and under developed nation in the...
Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia
First and foremost, it is worth analyzing what the lifting of sanctions on Iran really means for Iran and the West. ...
Saudi Arabia – Devaluation of the Riyal
The Saudi Riyal has been pegged to the US Dollar for the past 30 years but this may all soon change as the volatile...
Interview with Lyubov Demidova
Recognizing the huge untapped potential in their economic cooperation, Russia and Africa have taken steady efforts in raising the level of trade and business...
The fight against corruption in China
The fight against corruption, officially launched six months ago by President Xi Jinping in all the Chinese government’s and Party’s apparata is a strategic...
“Pivot to the East” and Russia’s Southeast Asia Gambit
Throughout 2015, the Russian Federation engaged in a variety of initiatives in a region that often falls outside of the conventional analysis of Russia's...
Saudi Arabia and Iran: A Balance of Power
The execution of Sheikh Nimr al Nimr by Saudi Arabia is heating up the Cold War in the Middle East. The tension between Saudi...
Europeans Goodbye?
‘Demography is destiny.’ Ben Wattenberg and Richard M. Scammon In 1825 the world’s population reached, for the first time, the figure of 1 billion...
Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Ubiquitous, mobile supercomputing. Intelligent robots. Self-driving cars. Neuro-technological brain enhancements. Genetic editing. The evidence of dramatic change is all around us and it’s happening...