Giancarlo Elia Valori The issue of the new relationship between Israel and Bahrain, following the agreement already signed between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, is particularly interesting. It marks a realignment of the Sunni world with the Jewish State, clearly against Iran, and hence indirectly with the …
Read More »The new relationship between Israel and Bahrain
Giancarlo Elia Valori The issue of the new relationship between Israel and Bahrain, following the agreement already signed between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, is particularly interesting. It marks a realignment of the Sunni world with the Jewish State, clearly against Iran, and hence indirectly with the …
Read More »How U.S.’s Response to Covid-19 Could Precipitate 2nd Great Depression
Eric Zeusse On March 10th of this year, there were 290 daily new U.S. cases of Covid-19(coronavirus-19). On March 13th, U.S. President Donald Trump declared a pandemic national emergency, because the number of daily new cases was now suddenly doubling within only three days. However, no lockdown was …
Read More »Reimagining Governance after Covid-19
Carice Witt What will it take to rescue the global economy in the wake of COVID-19? Are adjustments, improvements or amendments enough? Haven’t we done this before? Maybe it’s time to rethink this with a mindset, not of ‘starting again’ which would tend to invite ‘again’ thinking, but …
Read More »The global market of advanced electromechanical technologies
Giancarlo Elia Valori In 2019, the last year for which we have complete data, the global industry of transformers and similar technology was estimated to be worth 60 billion U.S. dollars. The world of the future will be increasingly electrified and energy, in particular – anyway abundant – …
Read More »Will the Saudis formalize relations with Israel or will they not? That is the 64,000-dollar question.
James M. Dorsey The odds are that Saudi Arabia is not about to formalize relations with Israel. But the kingdom, its image tarnished by multiple missteps, is seeking to ensure that it is not perceived as the odd man out as smaller Gulf states establish diplomatic relations with …
Read More »Economy in Libya
Giancarlo Elia Valori Strange to say, but the Libyan economy which, as is well-known – depends much, if not almost exclusively, on oil extraction and sale, performed very well in 2017 even at a time of falling prices – currently made more complex by the Covid-19 pandemic which …
Read More »Effects of External Factors on the Greater Arab Free Trade Zone from 1997-2005
Fatma Ahmed Althani Fatma Althani has presented her desertion with the focus on Arab Free Zone during the period of 1997-2005, which she defended at the Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences (University of Tripoli). Fatma provided Geostrategic Media with an abstract of her paper and we publish it upon her approval. Abstract The …
Read More »Lithuania made slow progress on implementing social and economic reforms
Adomas Abromaitis According to Country Report Lithuania 2020, written by the European Commission, Lithuania is one of the countries which benefits most from EU support. Even so, Lithuania made slow progress on implementing social and economic reforms to ensure that growth benefits all of society. Thus, the analysis shows …
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