... ways it’s not on the scale of the Cold War.
Do you see any ways to restore the mutual trust?
Tom Graham:
Russia — USA. It’s not just Ukraine
(In Russian)
In Washington, on the one hand, people are calling for stronger measures in the ... ... in economic modernization, not everything that was hoped for but certainly impressive gains. In part this was a hydrocarbon economy but not only.
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Igor Istomin:
Unraveling the Enigma: Western Expert
Community Seeks to Explain Russian ...
... China’s foreign exchange policy. Both factors are essentially “technical”, rather than fundamental. As such, they answer the main question regarding this reshuffle of leading borrowers: Is Japan regaining lost ground in the global economy?
At the same time, a full and complete answer to this question is impossible without projecting the situation onto the macroeconomic situation in both countries. The policy of quantitative easing in Japan is one of three areas of “Abenomics”,...
Russia Needs a Step Forward
Although Moscow's official documents and statements consider Hanoi a key Asian partner, the reality of the bilateral relationship after the breakup of the USSR has actually been inertia, thereby opening opportunities for the U.S.A. and the People's Republic of China (PRC) to gain a strong foothold in Vietnam. With Russia once again intent on achieving a meaningful presence in Asia-Pacific, it appears appropriate to analyze the role of a strategic partnership with Vietnam...
... financial sanctions imposed by the West were quick to bring Iran to the conference table.
Financial instruments of foreign policy are today becoming more important than those involving trade.
Improved efficiency of using financial instruments in the world economy is primarily due to the peculiarities of the current stage of globalization. The volume of financial transactions heavily exceeds the amount of financial services rendered in the international trade in goods and services. In 2013, global exports ...
... that is trending toward becoming popular, which means congressional support for more defense spending.
Nobody can even agree on the name of the group the United States coalition is fighting. Obama calls it “ISIL”. The New York Times and USA Today call it “ISIS.” Others just call it “IS.”
Is’s all part of what an essay by Brookings, who work in Qatar among the private citizens who fund ISIS, calls the the “new Middle East Cold War”
ISIS, ISIL,...
