Global trade reached a record high in 2021, but it is expected to slow this year for many reasons including continuing delays in global supply chains, UN economists said on Thursday. Announcing that worldwide commerce amounted to around $28.5 trillion last year, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) …

Florin Pasataoiu Kazakhstan: a key player and a logistic hub for China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a member of the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the largest country in Central Asia that has practised a multi-vector foreign policy with ease, the most …

Slavisha Milacic On February 15, the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation hosted an international conference “Geopolitical war of the West against Russia: Ukrainian case”. During the event, political scientists, experts, journalists and public figures from Russia, United States, Italy, Germany, Finland, Belgium and other countries discussed possible …

Meir Elran, Ephraim Lavie, Tomer Fadlon, Ofer Shelah, Zipi Israeli, Pnina Sharvit Baruch, and Kobi Michael The Domestic Political Scene As in other Western democracies, a basic feature of Israeli political life is ongoing social and political polarization, reflected in part by conflicting interpretations of the situation among …

Assaf Orion, Shahar Eilam, Tomer Fadlon, Oded Eran, Eldad Shavit, Daniel Rakov, and Shira Efron 2021 was marked by the global efforts to recover from the turmoil of the COVID-19 crisis, and in particular, its severe economic impacts. The focus of the global economy continued to move eastward, …

Bat Chen Feldman and Ghalia Levi Russia and China are participating in the nuclear talks in Vienna. The deliberations are complex and challenging, particularly since the interests and worldviews of Moscow and Beijing diverge significantly from those of the United States and the European parties. What are Russia …

Zvi Magen and Sophie Kobzantsev At the center of the world order is the crisis between Russia and the West regarding Ukraine, which threatens to escalate into a Russian military move against Ukraine. The question is: what are Putin’s motives surrounding the current crisis, and what picture is emerging …

Giancarlo Valori The ways of oil shipping There are three types of oil shipping classification. The first is according to the way the ship operates, including regular and non-scheduled routes. Regular (scheduled) routes are mainly used to transport general merchandise and refer to specific ships. They go to …

Nikolas Gvosdev The United States assumed that Russia would be scared of the risks to go into Syria. That is a mistake that should not be made when it comes to Ukraine. Senior U.S. national security officials, diplomats, and military officers are all sounding similar warnings. “If Russia …