On March 8–9, 2019, Venice hosted the fifth annual international Conference “Assessing risk: business in global disorder.” organized by Aspen Institute, Italy, and the Royal Institute of International Affairs Chatham House.
On March 8–9, 2019, Venice hosted the fifth annual international Conference “Assessing risk: business in global disorder.” organized by Aspen Institute, Italy, and the Royal Institute of International Affairs Chatham House.
As in previous years, the conference participants...
... leading Syrian
businessman
, known for his ruthlessness in conducting business. In fact, in 2013, Foz served a six month jail sentence for killing a Ukrainian/Egyptian businessman in Istanbul, Turkey. Foz is involved in multiple sectors of Syria’s economy, including brokering grain deals, and a stake in a regime-backed joint venture involved in the development of Marota City—a luxury residential and commercial development project. After several of Al-Assad’s former business allies found themselves ...
The EU will still have to rescue the Italian economy. However, Brussels is growing ever more reluctant to save Rome
March 1
st
marks nine months to the day since the new Italian "government of change" came to power. Few in Europe would have believed that Italy, one of the EU founding ...
... TPP-11 or the discussions on the creation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) points to the rising scale of trade alliances. Such trans-continental linkages are also increasingly observed in the Global South segment of the world economy, with China and India actively exploring the possibilities of integration projects with regional blocks and individual countries in South America and Africa.
The progression of economic integration to the stage of mega-regionalism may in part ...
... the end of his term of office.
#Putin has dominated the #Russian political scene since 1999. How will he deal with the economic and other problems that #Russia now faces, and what will he do when his term of office ends?
The performance of the Russian economy in recent years has been mixed. Inflation has fallen, foreign reserves have risen and the ruble’s exchange rate is relatively stable; but growth has been anaemic and real disposable incomes have fallen.
Putin has set ambitious economic targets ...
The sanctions seriously devalue the idea of a compromise on the islands in exchange for investment and a new level of relations
The invigoration of dialogue between Moscow and Tokyo has again raised the question of the prospects for concluding a peace treaty. Both countries see the intensification of trade and economic cooperation as one of the goals of their negotiations. Japan’s diplomacy implies by default that solving the so-called “territorial issue” will create new conditions for commercial...
... (most notably within the Global South) that has become increasingly critical in the past decades for development and maintenance of macroeconomic stability. The attainment of a more coordinated framework in the relations between developed and developing economy integration platforms is unlikely to exhibit breakthroughs without more active steps on the part of the Global South towards forging South-South integration. For the developing world the two key integration tools in attaining greater connectivity ...
RIAC and Gateway House Policy Brief
RIAC and Gateway House Policy Brief
The U.S. and its European allies have steadily increased economic sanctions on Russia since first imposing them in March 2014. The stated purpose of sanctions is to punish Russia for its involvement in Ukraine, as well as its alleged cyber-meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections and its transfer of arms to Syria and alleged humanrights abuses, also in Syria.
While the measures initially prohibited Westerners from doing business...
... restricted only to energy and security cooperation, though the potential in these spheres is indeed great and Moscow is on par with other leading nations. Russia is able to offer its support in electricity and water supplies — a weak spot in Iraq's economy. Russian companies can find new opportunities related to Iraq opening its border crossing with Syria and in ensuring the safety of the Baghdad-Damascus highway. Strengthening relations between Iraq and Syria will help stabilize the Middle East ...
The construction of a “mobilization economy” will be a key test for the legitimization of power – will it be enough to have “great power” as a national idea?
In his article “How to Survive in a Trench Warfare,” RIAC Director General
Andrey Kortunov
rightly points out that ...
