Climate Change Community Gets Real – Finally!
Less than a month after the hysteria and sheer bad thinking levelled at the decision of U.S. President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change, some […]
Read MoreHot air swirls around Trump’s announcement to withdraw from Paris climate agreement
Much hot air has been expended since President Trump announced on 1 June 2017 that the USA would withdraw from the December 2015 Paris accord. As is often the case, […]
Read MoreWhat’s driving China’s One Belt, One Road initiative?
What’s driving China’s One Belt, One Road initiative – Junhua Zhang Written by ESC China expert Junhua Zhang.
Read MoreThe Struggle for Democracy has Begun
For decades, we have been taking our freedom for granted. But suddenly authoritarian populists are threatening liberal societies worldwide. Time to wake up. Die Zeit, 4 August 2016. *** The […]
Read MoreTime for Common Sense
On June 18, 2013, President Putin warned that government revenues would be less than previously expected and that the budget policy for 2014-2016 had to be planned accordingly. He also said that while revenues from natural […]
Read MoreAfrica and Russia: Victimhood vs. Empowerment?
In his writeup of this year’s gathering of politicians and businessmen in Davos (“Complacency in a Leaderless, Multipolar World,” The Moscow Times, Feb. 12, 2013), Nobel laureate in economics Joseph Stiglitz quotes with apparent approval a development expert who claimed […]
Read MoreTurning Sochi Into Russia’s Coming Out Party
Last weekend marked a year until the end of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. One of the reasons that both the International Olympic Committee and FIFA, the governing body of world football, often award countries the venue for these huge […]
Read MoreThe West hesitates about relying on BRICS
Drawing by Niyaz Karim Just before the start of the recent G20 summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, economists at the Brookings Institution announced that policy paralysis was hitting the global […]
Read MoreDifferent consumers, same products
In the 1990s, many economists in the U.S. and Europe predicted that the euro would fail. Yet precious few pointed to the West’s huge debt in the late 1990s – or forecast […]
Read MoreIs the West in debt to the Rest?
Developed economies may be in trouble, but those in emerging markets shouldn’t write them off yet. Official reactions in Moscow and Beijing to the debt debacle in Washington provide the […]
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