Africa is big enough to accommodate everybody—its needs are incredibly huge and its prospects are truly breathtaking
Just over a year ago, at the US-Africa leaders' summit in Washington in December 2022, President Joe Biden made a public commitment to pay a visit to the Cradle of Humankind. However, he is unlikely to keep his promise, at least not before the US presidential elections in November. Still, Africa already had a lot of the US' attention: a long chain of top-level US officials showed...
Policy Brief #47 / 2023
Policy Brief #47 / 2023
The Middle East has been clearly showing signs that is it changing. It would not be an overstatement to say that a lot of what is happening now would have been unthinkable just a couple of years ago.
The greatest of these changes is the China-mediated rapprochement between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Given that these countries are regional “centers of power”, their new and improved relations may help reduce regional...
... the U.S., with New Delhi often preferring to seek arrangements with the EU rather than the U.S. Many Indian authors note that the current U.S. strategy regarding India entails no significant programmes for the U.S. to assist in modernizing India’s economy. During Donald Trump’s presidency, U.S.–India relations were supposed to serve narrowly defined U.S. business interests rather than strategic goals of Indian modernization, and this approach has not changed in any radical way under Joe Biden....
Report #83 / 2022
Report #83 / 2022
World order structural transformations are going hand-in-hand with new global power shifts where the United States and China will be vying for dominance. However mutually beneficial the Sino-American relations have been since the 1970s, recent years have borne witnessed to soaring uncertainty and confrontation between the U.S. and China. This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the current U.S. foreign policy strategy towards China, focusing on the most...
... the majority of US allies. It is obvious that the rupture of their economic ties will have global consequences for the world economy.
The situation that is taking shape raises many questions. How irreversible is the confrontation between Washington and ... ... 907 of March 24, 2020, denounced the PRC for censoring reports about the virus during the early stages of its spread, its refusal to cooperate with scientists from the Centre for Disease Control to assist its response to
COVID-19
for over a month after ...
... emerging, the Quad was reactivated as the Quad 2.0.
Since 2017, the frequency of Quad activities has increased, with one or two ministerial dialogues held almost every year. It has broadened its agenda to include issues relating to security, democracy, economy, international order, cyber and infrastructure and so on. In March 2021, it has been upgraded from the ministerial level to the level of heads of state, which is a sign that Biden, far from abandoning Trump’s diplomatic legacy, intends to make ...
We need to tread thoughtfully and astutely in terms of our diplomacy while being careful not to become too dependent on anyone or take sides
While it may be a little early to talk about the emergence of a bipolar era in the tech world, the question of what policy Russia should follow against the backdrop of the confrontation between the two undisputed tech leaders (the United States and China) is more pressing than ever.
Vassily Kashin
of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International...
... still retain significant conflict potential. The arms control architecture is deliberately undermined – the US unilateral withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was a rather dangerous step. Structural imbalances in the world economy are yet to be overcome. A serious threat to global economic growth is posed by such unfair competition practices as unilateral economic sanctions, trade wars and flagrant abuse of the US dollar status as the world reserve currency. The international ...
... 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 ...
... tariff rates. Therefore, the
talks between Armenia and the WTO will focus
on an increase in rates in significant sectors of the economy to the level adopted in the EEU .
In the meantime, the Eastern Partnership (EaP) Summit, which took place on 21 and 22 ... ... investments in Armenia.
Russia’s major companies
— Gazprom, Russian Railways, INTER RAO UES, United Energy Company, Rusal Armenal , etc. — own 100% of some of Armenia’s open joint-stock companies. This goes to show that Russia is actively ...
