... Moscow also believes that Al-Assad will not cooperate with Europe until at least some sanctions are lifted. Russians and Europeans have to engage in a more specific discussion about the impact of international sanctions on various sectors of the Syrian economy, the political dynamics in Damascus, and what the notion of “smart sanctions” might mean in the case of Syria.
Fifth. Europe does not want to extend international recognition or legitimation to the Al-Assad regime. For many in Europe, Syria ...
What does the “Deal of the Century” mean for Jordan?
The public outrage seen in the Jordanian street has been growing louder, alongside the state's failure to fight the country's rampant administrative and financial corruption. The Jordanian government has of yet been unable to reform and change the status quo, and change the momentum of increasing economic hardships, income inequality, and inefficiency.
Jordan put forth an economic transformation program in 2008, to privatize their most successful...
RIAC Working Paper No. 51/2019
RIAC Working Paper No. 51/2019
The working paper considers Russia’s geostrategic interests in the Middle East and the concept of Russia’s
return to the world stage as a great power. The paper analyses Russia’s regional interests, including the
development of trade ties, attracting investment, gaining access to the arms market and influencing oil prices.
The working paper also evaluates the increased collaboration with the local actors accompanied by Russia’s
active...
... protect their interests are rarely supported by any substantive achievements. The cost of following in the wake of American policy is very serious, though.
On the other hand, the United States risks “overstraining” and plunging the entire global economy into recession due to the escalation of the trade conflict with China, which seriously affects the world GDP’s growth rates and market stability. With the further strengthening of the Sino-American trade war, in China alone, 5.5 million jobs ...
... high expectations entrusted to the format. Despite the fact that the statements made by the Foreign Ministers (Sergey Lavrov, Sushma Swaraj, and Wang Yi) demonstrate the coordinated approach of the countries on current international security and global economy issues, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi
refused
to introduce the same format of meetings for the Defense Ministers of the triangle, avoids discussing freedom of navigation in the South China Sea, and is also not going to coordinate positions ...
... Minister
confirmed
the country’s intention to “intensify” the “golden era” in the UK–China relations and announced a new ambitious UK–China educational programme of humanitarian contacts (155,000 Chinese students bring annually the UK economy approximately
₤5 billion
to the UK economy every year.)
Addressing the Parliament of the United Kingdom in November 2017, China’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom
expressed his hope
that, after Brexit, the countries would continue to build ...
... concept of the coming Asian Century, whose development and progress transcends Gagemeister’s report. During the past twenty years, China in particular has increased its absolute economic size six times over, as well as tripling its share of the global economy. And despite the Chinese government’s recent announcement that 2019 will likely see the slowing of the country’s fabled three decades of high GDP growth, its projected figure of 6 to 6.5 percent is almost double the International Monetary ...
On April 4, 2019, Randi Levinas, Executive Vice President for the U.S.-Russia Business Council (USRBC), visited Russian International Affairs Council.
On April 4, 2019, Randi Levinas, Executive Vice President for the U.S.-Russia Business Council (USRBC), visited Russian International Affairs Council.
The following issues were touched upon during the meeting with RIAC staff: the current state and future development of Russia-the U.S. economic relations, possible content of new U.S. sanctions against...
... each others’ expense. The result as game-theory would suggest is a “prisoner’s dilemma” pyramid that is built from the foundations of individual values to the level of international institutions.
It turns out that the egoism in today’s world economy is multi-dimensional and multi-layered. Within countries the society appears to be more often than not atomized and individualistic, with individualism espoused as a virtue, and collectivism perceived as a threat to individual freedoms. At the ...
... Brazilians have a different situation with regards to the rule of law. And the South Africans have their own problems right now. It is problematic when it comes to legal harmonization. When it comes to harmonization around political idioms, along political economy, along economic inversions, it is much easier. Rather than going into too much of the negative aspects of BRICS, focus on what BRICS has been able to accomplish: the BRICS bank, providing loans based on different parameters as compared to the ...
