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Giancarlo Elia Valori In 2019 – the last year for which we have complete statistics – all classes of financial investment had a total increase of 23 trillion US dollars, particularly Stock Exchange securities and public debt instruments. The global value of Stock Exchange securities alone grew by …

Farzad Ramezani Bonesh Senior Researcher and Analyst of International Affairs In recent years, although several ISIS leaders such as Hafiz Saeed Khan (the first leader of the in ISIS group in Khorasan in July 2016) and his successor have been killed, but the group is still present in …

Giancarlo Elia Valori As we have all realized, since the COVID-19 epidemics broke out the number of regulations enacted – especially by the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers – has literally sky-rocketed. The starting date of the sequence of regulations is certain. It is, in fact, …

 Sajad Abedi[1] / Mohammad Amin Zabihi[2]   Terrorism is not a new phenomenon; our world has experienced different acts of terror since the peasant wars in ancient times to systematic acts of terror through religious-political agendas in modern days. Arguably, Terrorism, like any other phenomenon on the planet, …

Giancarlo Elia Valori How will the E.U. resources be defined in the near future for the coronavirus issue? The issue is, in fact, much more complex than we may think. The actual European Funds that are theoretically available are manifold: the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social …

The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors approved today a US$200 million project to increase access for Jordanian youth to jobs and expand government digital services. The Youth, Technology and Jobs project will adopt an integrated approach that aims to capitalize on Jordan’s potential to grow its …

The coronavirus arrived in the Middle East that was enduring a profound political transition. Since then, governments have seen their credibility worn down and their political dexterity tried by difficult economic transitions. The virus is expediting transitions and fractures that are already in the making. “In the silence …

The goal of toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime seemed so worthy but it was actually grandiose. “Man’s real treasure is the treasure of his mistakes, piled up stone by stone through thousands of years,” according to Jose Ortega y Gasset, the great Spanish philosopher of the early twentieth century. …

The WHO, the World Health Organisation, is poised to declare a pandemic over contagion from the Coronovirus or Covid-19. Walter Ricciardi of the organisation’s executive office explained what it means. According to Ricciardi, “within seven maximum ten days from the headquarters in Geneva, the WHO will proclaim the pandemic …