Derisking, Strategic Autonomy, and Economic Security
Polemics Coverage of the Dialogue of Continents Conference, organized by the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee, December 4-5, 2023.
The second round table is introduced by...
Unraveling the Belt and Road Initiative
Ten years after its inception, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has evolved from a Eurasian trade corridor and infrastructure investment program to an...
The End of the Dollar? Not So Fast
De-Dollarization, it’s a term we frequently hear about in the news these days. In March of this year, Fareed Zakaria, a well-noted IR specialist...
Unpaid Internships and the Burden of Youth
In a bid to restore social cohesion and reduce inequality, Members of the European Parliament have moved to ban unpaid internships in the European...
Rising Interest Rates: The End of the Era of Free Money
Inflation. In the past year, this word has been repeatedly mentioned everywhere in virtually every form of media. Why is everyone talking about it?...
Friendshoring as an Opportunity for Africa: A Valentine’s Day Special
A Valentine’s Day without some flowers and chocolate would be rather underwhelming. In the EU, about 85% of cocoa beans used in chocolate manufacturing...
The Little Things That Matter: Semiconductors and the New Geopolitics of the 21st Century
Whether you have chosen to read this article in a digital or physical medium, it is vital to know that it would not have...
The Forgotten Crisis in Afghanistan
August 2021 was a month like no other for eleven-year-old Temur and his family. This was, of course, when the Taliban succeeded in toppling...
What 43 Billion Dollars Could Have Done: The Economic Crisis in Sri Lanka and...
Around the same time Elon Musk made a bid for Twitter at 43 billion USD, Sri Lanka defaulted on its 51 billion USD external...
From War Zones to Auction Houses: The Journey of Smuggled Cultural Objects
Somewhere in an Afghan village not far from Kabul, a bronze figurine dating back some eighteen thousand years is picked up at an archeological...
