Sam Mak In 2005, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a speech to parliament that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the worst geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century. A year earlier, seven countries had joined NATO: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. In 2009, …
Read More »Violence Is History’s Great Economic Leveler
Rainer Zitelmann The greatest “levelers” in history have been violent events such as wars, revolutions, state and systems collapses, and pandemics, but the greatest poverty reducer in history has been capitalism. The authors of the classical utopian novels were obsessed with the notion of equality. In almost every …
Read More »Militaries around the world benefit from industrial localization: A global trend
Amy Sherif A trend is now globally solidifying, whereby many countries are set on a strategic approach to becoming more self-reliant in development, production and support of military assets. These capabilities were usually exclusively provided by advanced industrial capabilities such as the United States, Russia, France, United Kingdom …
Read More »Ukraine-Russia Crisis: Belt and Road Initiative and China’s diplomacy
Pushkar Pushp It has been more than a week since Russia has launched a war against Ukraine. The United state and its allies have already put sanctions on Russia. These sanctions aim to weaken its financial assets and the military. However, as we monitor the Russian invasion of …
Read More »Future Human Society’s Primary Task will be to Regulate Technology
The widespread application of digital technology has brought profound changes to society, raising the issues of market order and supervision in the digital age as a result. In the digital age, market structures and operating models have undergone important changes. The unprecedented density, depth and breadth of market …
Read More »The Impact of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict on Global Financial Markets
Since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, the global capital markets had experienced the initial plunge on February 24, and then stabilized and rebounded in the second trading day on February 25. The three major U.S. stock indexes closed up collectively, with the Dow Jones industrial average, the …
Read More »Quantum computing and quantum computers
Giancarlo Elia Valori What is quantum computing? Why do we need quantum computing? According to Moore’s law (“The complexity of a microcircuit, measured for example by the number of transistors per chip, doubles every 18 months and hence quadruples every 3 years”), the density of transistors per area …
Read More »Geopolitics of Critical Minerals Towards Energy Transition
Akhmad Hanan and Mayora Bunga Swastika There is no denying that all countries in the world should use clean energy in the future. Based on the agreement at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasglow and several other important international meetings, several countries …
Read More »Russia-Ukraine: Quo Vadis?
Andrey Sushentov On February 24, the era of Russia’s search for its place in the Western-centric world ended. In this world, all political initiatives came only from the West. The Western countries also determined the basic rules of this world and allowed, at their discretion, other participants to …
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