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Dear Central Banks, We Are in a Global Recession
2016 started off as one of the worst years on record for the stock market. As investors scrambled around dreading that the bull market...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Power of Siberia Pipeline: Multiple Layers of Complex Geopolitics
The Power of Siberia pipeline is particularly well-suited to exploring the convergence of energy resource scarcity and climate change and that convergence’s impact on...
The TAPI Pipeline: The Politics of Energy Balancing
There is a new energy rush among many Greater Caspian states, one that continues to focus on breaking free of the heavy Russian influence...
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. ...
The new Libyan government
The newly-established Libyan government is the result of an extremely complex political process. Not even the new government led by Faiez Al-Serraj shows signs...
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...