Why India Is Losing Faith In The West
While the U.S. and Europe are congratulating themselves over the speed and effectiveness of sanctions against Russia, many Indians decry their hypocrisy and unilateralism. Read More Here
Will China’s “Common Prosperity” Survive Putin’s War?
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “common prosperity” campaign takes aim at the market-oriented policies that have enabled China’s rise. At a time when COVID-19 border controls and perceived complicity in Russia’s aggression are already threatening to isolate China, the risks of pursuing such a campaign should not be underestimated. Read More Here
Duty Bound To Disaster: Beware The Imperative In Foreign Policymaking
The United States is edging closer to what may be the most fateful choice of its modern history: whether to take bolder and more aggressive action to defend a beleaguered people against the world’s other major nuclear power. Read More Here
U.S. Grand Strategy After Ukraine
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is nearly a month old, and to call it an epochal shift already feels like a cliche. It’s the first all-out war of aggression in Europe since 1945. China appears to be edging closer to a bruised Russia. The United States and its allies have not been as unified in decades, […]
How Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine Is Rebounding In Iran
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has not only dominated global headlines, but also triggered a wide-ranging debate in Iran and among Iranians about Tehran’s ties with Moscow. Read More Here
A Fine Balancing Act
With fiscal policy having gained fresh prominence, governments must carefully calibrate their policies in the pandemic’s aftermath. Read More Here
Ukraine War’s Impact On Trade And Development
An UNCTAD rapid assessment of the war in Ukraine’s impact on trade and development confirms a rapidly worsening outlook for the world economy, underpinned by rising food, fuel and fertilizer prices. The report also shows heightened financial volatility, sustainable development divestment, complex global supply chain reconfigurations and mounting trade costs. Read More Here
Developing economies must act now to dampen the shocks from the Ukraine conflict
The war in Ukraine could not have come at a worse time for the global economy—when the recovery from the pandemic-induced contraction had begun to falter, inflation was surging, central banks in the world’s largest economies were gearing up to hike interest rates, and financial markets were gyrating over a formidable constellation of uncertainties. Read More Here
Korea’s new president confronts coronavirus challenge
When Yoon Seok-youl takes office, he’ll have fewer administrative measures in place to deal with a pandemic that continues to rage. Read More Here
War in Ukraine will cripple global food markets
Today Russia and Ukraine, respectively the largest and fifth-largest wheat exporters, together account for 29% of international annual sales. Uncertainties around the sowing season in the two countries coupled with low global stocks will further increase already-high prices. Read More Here
