Today, there is both a need and a possibility to couple integrations of the North and the South
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Isaac Newton
Global economy is currently going through a period of rising integration, with the new platforms emerging that assume transcontinental scale, becoming ...
... Transcontinental Cooperation
The transformation of international trade has significantly picked up pace as of late. Sanctions and protectionism (and its rather aggressive variant used by the United States) prompt states to create alternative institutions and integration alliances based on the principles of liberalism, equality and openness.
Acting together is the only way for states to withstand such a disturbance of the balance in the global trade system and satisfy their interests.
Alina Shcherbakova:
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... an EU association to Ukraine as a means of containing or isolating Russia. Indeed, Russian policymakers repeatedly pushed for a tri-party Russia-Ukraine-EU association, which would have minimized the possibility of excluding Russia from the regional integration process. Considering Russia’s grave contribution to European livelihood and economic activities (in terms of reliable and cost-competitive energy), EU’s political motto “We want Ukraine but not Russia” was indeed diplomatically ...