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December 19, 2015

Yemen
Weekend Reading: Saudi Arabia’s War, Tunisia’s Sidi Bouzid, and the Middle East’s Public Spaces

Sharif Abdel Kouddous reports on the human toll of the Saudi-led war in Yemen. Christine Petre looks at Sidi Bouzid five years after Tunisian fruit seller Mohammed Bouazizi’s self-immolation that sp…

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December 13, 2011

China
Emerging Economies, Private Companies, and Global Economic Power

Source: UNCTAD World Investment Report 2011 In the wake of the 2008 economic crisis, economists, investors, and even politicians have pinned their hopes on the major emerging markets as the new engi…

Emerging Economies, Private Companies, and Global Economic Power

November 12, 2015

Europe and Eurasia
As Fed Pulls Back, the ECB and BoJ Add Trillions to Global Liquidity

All eyes and ears are on the Fed as it ponders its first rate increase in nine years.  IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde fears a rerun of the 2013 “taper tantrum,” or what we have been calli…

As Fed Pulls Back, the ECB and BoJ Add Trillions to Global Liquidity

December 18, 2020

Cybersecurity
Week in Review: December 18, 2020

Big tech's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week; Russia’s SolarWinds hack compromises thousands of customers; Facebook calls out France and Russia for misinformation operations in Africa; Germa…

An activist of Avaaz wears a mask depicting the face of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during a protest in Brussels.

June 15, 2018

Southeast Asia
In Southeast Asia, Belt and Road Attracts Takers, But Skepticism is Rising

Since China’s Belt and Road Initiative was formally launched in 2013, Southeast Asia has been one of the major priorities of the infrastructure investment project. Beijing launched a new high-speed r…

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