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Nord Stream 2 Nears Completion

(click to enlarge) A German regional court this week refused Russian energy giant Gazprom’s appeal to exclude the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from EU rules...

Afghan Migration and Trade

(click to enlarge) Landlocked Afghanistan is a bridge between Central and South Asia, giving it the potential for a high degree of integration with its...

Latin America’s Recovery Requires Foreign Investment

(click to enlarge) Foreign direct investments are crucial for Latin America. They help finance economic development and projects that the governments and local companies cannot...

Grinding Gears of Global Shipping

(click to enlarge) The epochal global supply chain snarl isn’t going away. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed widespread structural fragilities in the global trading system, first...

The Volatile Global Food Supply

(click to enlarge) The pandemic has aggravated an already alarming situation regarding the cost and accessibility of food worldwide, as the director general of the...

Unequal Vaccine Distribution Hampers Global Recovery

(click to enlarge) About 24 percent of the global population has received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, but distribution has been vastly...

A Picture of China’s Expansion

(click to enlarge) The rapid pace of Chinese growth has expanded the country’s need for natural resources, especially farmland, timber and inputs needed for emerging...

Russia Invests in Southeast Asia

(click to enlarge) This week, Russia’s foreign minister met with the secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to discuss relations between Moscow and...

Foreign Investment Crashed in 2020

(click to enlarge) Foreign direct investment is the trademark of the globalization of the international economy. FDI flows suffered greatly in 2020 because of pandemic-related...

State and Nonstate Forces in Africa

(click to enlarge) Throughout the past century, sub-Saharan Africa has more often than not either been largely ignored by outside powers or functioned uneasily as...

Spain and Morocco’s Standoff

(click to enlarge) The Western Mediterranean, particularly the Strait of Gibraltar, is the gateway between the Atlantic Ocean and Eastern Mediterranean, which has coastline along...

COVID-19’s Impact on Employment Worldwide

(click to enlarge) In 2020, some 114 million workers around the world lost their jobs or withdrew from the labor force. An estimated 30 million...

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