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Impacting Climate Policy: The Pandemic, Polarization, and You
You’re wearing your pajamas and fuzzy slippers while sitting in your bedroom. You’re also on an important Zoom call and it’s 2 pm in the...
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Jan 7, 20234 min read


Chinese Capital Comes to the Middle East
The Middle East has been a key strategic area for centuries, with the Russian, British, Portuguese, French and Ottoman Empires all...
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Apr 6, 20187 min read


The Perpetual Greek Crisis
Once again, Greece is making headlines for its economic troubles as it heads towards a major confrontation with its European creditors...
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May 15, 20176 min read


IMF: An Institutional Crisis?
On December 19, 2016 Christine Lagarde, the managing director (MD) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was convicted in French...
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Feb 24, 20176 min read


BRICS’ New Development Bank: The End of the Bretton Woods Institutions?
In July, after several months of discussion, the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) have finally...
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Sep 24, 20144 min read


Ireland Jumps: Will Others Follow?
Ireland, Angela Merkel’s sickly child, has decided to go off on its own. After taking an $87 billion European bailout to survive its...
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Jan 25, 20145 min read


Crisis and Reform at the IMF
It was among the ravages of world war that the brain child of John Maynard Keynes and Harry Dexter White came into being. Seventy years...
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Sep 20, 20133 min read


The Bind of the Brotherhood
It is no secret that revolution, successful or otherwise, rarely produces results as glorious as initially imagined. For example, the...
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Mar 5, 20135 min read
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