What Has Competition to Do with Inequality?
1. Introduction
Inequality has been one of the most debated issues. By far the leading explanations of inequality revolve around technological progress and globalization of trade (Alvaredo, et al., 2013), but these are not the only contributing factors. Recent empiri...
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Kazakhstan’s Expanding Multi-Vector Foreign Policy
Recently, Kazakhstani Energy Minister Bolat Akchulakov declared that, while his country maintains close ties with Russia and Uzbekistan on gas transit, no formal discussions have been held regarding the possible formation of a gas union, the trilateral initiative sugges...
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Nikoloz Khatiashvili: "This factor may become a catalyst for our rapprochement with NATO and the European Union"
29 Dec 2022
In an interview with the news agency he spoke about various issues, including regarding the strategic importance of the Black Sea for the West.
- Given Russia's war against Ukraine we see that the importance of the Middle Corridor is increasing Obviously, th...
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Dr. Khatuna Burkadze – Proactive foreign policy will promote to achieve Georgia’s European goals
Interpressnews discussed foreign policy issues with Prof. Dr. Khatuna Burkadze, Director of Foreign Policy Studies at Geocase, an alumna of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and the Harvard Program on Negotiations.
- Because of the Ru...
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Crisis Economy: Trends, Features And Possible Development
From the ordinary to the extraordinary
After the global economic crisis of 2008, a number of critical problems remain unresolved. The list of these macro- and microscale problems is quite extensive. However, despite this abundance, it is still possible to formulat...
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From Balancing to Extraction
To divide Russia and China, the West first needs to push Moscow toward Beijing. The West needs to think long-term when it comes to the China-Russia partnership. The methods used thus far to divide their growing cooperation have failed. Instead, what the West first needs...
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Russia’s Dying Eurasian Dream
Russian multilateralism is unraveling. Cracks that were always visible within the Kremlin-dominated Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) groupings are now becoming ever more explicit.
The immediate cause is Russia’s ag...
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Robbed Childhood: The Practice of Child Labour
As reported by UNICEF, approximately 160 million children worldwide were subject to the child labour in year 2020, 79 million of them are performing hazardous work and 9 million additional children at risk due to the impact of COVID-19. By definition, child labour is vi...
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As Russian Influence Plummets, China Capitalizes in Central Asia
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has finally initiated its highly anticipated railway project to Uzbekistan. On the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit held in September 2022, the official decision was made to begin actively working on th...
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