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The Foreign Exchange Rate Determination Issue and its Empirical Deviations
The discussion about the theories that determine the foreign exchange rate is a recurrent issue in the economic literature. Theoretical and empirical approaches achieved...
The New Silk Road: Plan for Chinese Hegemony
The newly inaugurated “One Belt, One Road” initiative had its first trip with a shipment arriving in Tehran from China . China has undertaken...
Times of Europe
Six decades after the first thought of creating a Union of European countries, the dominant debate on the supranational and intergovernmental EU structuring and...
Noah, Peter Pan and the Sleeping Beauty
Economic downturn; recession of plans and initiatives; €-crisis; Brexit and irredentism in the UK, Spain, Belgium, Denmark and Italy; lasting instability in the Euro-Med...
New Momentum for Russia – Nigeria Relations
Nigeria is considered the economic powerhouse in the West Africa region. As it is popular known, Nigeria is one of Africa's fastest growing economies...
President Xi Jinping’s travel to the Middle East
Historically, the Silk Road was established during the Han dynasty, between 206 B.C and 220 A.D., after the long Chinese exploration of Southern and...
Japan: Symptom of a Larger Financial Crisis?
Conventional wisdom dictates that money should be deposited in a bank rather than under a mattress. Aside from the security motives, the bank typically...
Millennial Iran: Change or status quo?
Domestically, nationalism in Iran is high as it has produced some of the greatest artists, physicians, poets, and mathematicians that history has ever seen...
Hard and Soft Power in the Caspian: Russian and Iranian Objectives
Two of the five states that border the Caspian Sea can be considered hegemonic in the region: Russia and Iran. Although this is beneficial...
The nuclear power in the Middle East: Its strategic and economic significance
If we look at the latest data, the OPEC countries – or anyway the Middle East countries - are those which are investing more...