By Amanda Beal and Maria Sofia This past September, many of the world’s leaders gathered in New York to sign the United Nations (UN) new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Numerous man-hours and unspeakable amounts of money have been used to promote this transition and enhance the global partnership for development. However, no one yet […]
Archive | Global Economy
Aid or Trade? Problems with the UN’s Human Development Figures
Posted on May 3, 2016.
Posted in Africa, Asia, Economics, Global Economy, Humanitarian Intervention, Latin America, UN, World
Poll: Most Bangladeshis See Country Pointed in Right Direction
Posted on February 9, 2016.
Recent attacks by extremists have not dampened enthusiasm for future. By Mohammad Ziauddin, Ambassador of Bangladesh to the United States Bangladesh is headed in the right direction. That’s the conclusion of a new survey conducted by the respected International Republican Institute. IRI, an independent, non-partisan U.S. based organization that assists political parties to achieve good […]
Posted in Asia, Bangladesh, Economic Security, Economics, Global Economy, Security Issues, Terrorism, World
Arctic Trade Route Presents Opportunity for Russia-West Cooperation
Posted on January 24, 2016.
14,000 feet beneath the frozen surface of the Arctic Ocean at the North Pole, a Russian flag forged in titanium rests on the seabed. The flag, planted by a manned submersible during a 2007 expedition, was conceived as a publicity stunt intended to promote Russia’s territorial claims in the Arctic. The expedition was immediately rebuked […]
Posted in Environmental Security, Global Economy, Russia, Security Issues, World
Choosing Cohesion Over Conflict
Posted on December 31, 2015.
By Mustapha El-Khalfi – Minister of Communications, Spokesman of the Government of Morocco With difficult global headwinds and regional instability, now is the time to embrace a new era of national unity Since 2004 $1 billion has been invested in the Moroccan Sahara, which is evident in the construction of more than 150 new local […]
Posted in Africa, Economic Security, Europe, Food Security, Global Economy, Middle East, Political Security, Security Issues, World
The Election That May Change Spain Forever
Posted on December 22, 2015.
20D will go down in Spanish history. 20th of December – the Spanish write all of their most important dates in this manner – was the first time voters rejected the duopoly that had governed the country since democracy was reintroduced in 1975. For 40 years power in Spain has been held by either the […]
Posted in Economics, Europe, Global Economy, World
Piketty’s Puzzle: Globalization, Inequality and Democracy
Posted on November 14, 2015.
One of the most striking trends of modern times, the concentration of global wealth in hands of the very few, has been popularized by Thomas Piketty in his hugely influential Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Piketty argues that the rate of return on capital consistently exceeds the rate of economic growth. In the absence of […]
Posted in Economics, Global Economy, US, World
CUBA: Someone Must Spoil the Party.
Posted on September 28, 2015.
Since D17 (17th December 2014), when President Obama announced sweeping change in U.S. policy toward Cuba, news about the country has been exciting. Headlines such as ‘Obama making history’, ‘Diplomatic Relations Restored’, ‘Cuba off the Terrorist List’,‘Cuba Reopen D.C. Embassy’, ‘The American Flag being raised outside the U.S. Embassy in Havana’ and ‘American businesses preparing to […]
Posted in Economics, Global Economy, Latin America, US, World
Urban Development in India: Chasing the Global at a Cost to the Local?
Posted on September 15, 2015.
The observant visitor to the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai is offered two contradictory faces of globalisation. Corrugated iron and blue polythene slums throw the air conditioned modernity of Mumbai’s adjacent airport into sharp relief. Few, if any, of these slum residents will ever board one of the planes that land and depart by […]
Posted in Global Economy, India, World
Solidarity or Self-interest? European Integration and the German Question
Posted on August 23, 2015.
This article was originally published by The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in Carnegie Ethics Online on 17 August 2015. In Klaus Harpprecht’s 1995 biography of Thomas Mann, he highlights a statement which Mann wrote in 1947, which, as Harpprecht puts it, “one reads with a distinct shiver half a century later”: In […]
Posted in Europe, Germany, Global Economy, World
Fear or Facts: the Case for ISDS in Modern Trade Agreements
Posted on June 7, 2015.
At the stakeholder briefing during the ninth round of negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), U.S. chief negotiator Dan Mullaney quipped that everyone was discussing Investor to State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) systems except the negotiators. The latter have not discussed the issue since January 2014, when the European Commission launched a public consultation, […]
Posted in Asia, China, Economics, Europe, Global Economy, US, World
Angola on the Brink After Oil Price Slump
Posted on May 13, 2015.
Emerging from a nearly three decade long civil war that began at the time of the country’s independence from Portugal and which did not end until 2002, Angola experienced an oil production boom in the years that followed. With the discovery of massive amounts of oil at several deep water fields south of the Congo […]
Posted in Africa, China, Global Economy, World
South Korea Must Find Its Own Way in The Clash of Titans
Posted on May 2, 2015.
‘When whales fight, the shrimp’s back is broken.’ The South Korean government has long viewed itself in terms of this proverb when it comes to its relations with the People’s Republic of China and the United States. The two great powers, in their battle for influence over the Asia-Pacific region, often require that South Korea […]
Posted in Asia, China, Economics, Global Economy, Security Issues, US, World
Why Israel Is Losing the Public Relations War
Posted on March 28, 2015.
Almost everybody thinks badly of Israel. That’s what a poll published by the BBC World Service in 2014 shows. More precisely, Israel ranks as the fourth most negatively viewed nation, right after North Korea, Pakistan and Iran. What explains the differences between European and American views on Israel, and how does such an overall negative […]
Posted in Conflict, Economics, Israel, Israeli Palestinian Conflict, Middle East, Political Security, Security Issues, World
Is Iran Headed For Another Recession?
Posted on March 28, 2015.
Garnering over 50 percent of the vote, Hassan Rouhani assumed a decisive victory on June 2013 and became Iran’s new president after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s eight year long reign. Vowing to pull the country out of its sanction filled, depressed economy, he won the elections by a landslide. Less than three months ago, during a December […]
Posted in Economic Security, Economics, Global Economy, Iran, Middle East, Security Issues, World
Save TTIP or Risk the Alliance
Posted on March 25, 2015.
The European Union (EU) and the United States (U.S.) have been negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) since 2013. Intended to revive the transatlantic economies by eliminating tariffs and accepting various degrees of regulatory convergence or mutual recognition across a wide range of sectors, and solidify EU-U.S. relations, it now appears to be […]
Posted in Economic Security, Economics, Europe, Germany, Global Economy, Political Security, Security Issues, US, World
China’s Expanding African Military Footprint
Posted on February 17, 2015.
Sun Tzu, in his seminal book The Art of War, argued that all warfare is fundamentally based on deception. “When able to attack, we must seem unable; When using our forces, we must seem inactive; When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; When far away, we must make […]
Posted in Africa, Asia, China, Economic Security, Global Economy, Security Issues, World
Focus on Greece Ignores Need for German Economic Reform
Posted on February 16, 2015.
With Greek debt negotiations reaching a critical point, it may be time for a reminder that there are more problems within the eurozone than just southern European debt. Austerity rightly remains firmly in the headlines, but looking beyond the struggles in Athens reveals that economic changes may be needed further north. Indeed, while the new […]
Posted in Economic Security, Economics, Europe, Germany, Global Economy, World
Where is Portugal’s Radical Left?
Posted on February 11, 2015.
It has been a tumultuous month in European politics. As Greek debt negotiations dominate the headlines, the resurgent left-wing in many European countries waits with baited breath in the realisation that the popularity of their movements may rest on what happens in Athens. It is interesting, however, that while the radical left has enjoyed a […]
Posted in Economics, Europe, Global Economy, World
In Defence of Our Procrasti-nation
Posted on February 7, 2015.
Procrastination report just goes to show how we view people as machines. Monday marked the launch of the ‘Great British Procrasti-nation’ report: the first ever in-depth look at the nation’s procrastination habits. I admit I admired the playful pun for a while. It didn’t last long. Based on a YouGov survey of over 2,000 adults, […]
Will Corruption and Income Inequality Scupper India’s Economic Revival?
Posted on January 21, 2015.
As anyone who has spent any length of time travelling in India will attest, it is a country of stark contrasts. In few ways is this more obvious than the vast disparities in wealth between 500 million of India’s total 1.27 billion citizens living on less than $1.25 per day and a small but increasingly wealthy elite […]
Posted in Asia, Economic Security, Economics, Food Security, Global Economy, India, Uncategorized, World
-
Why Timor-Leste’s Choice of Portuguese Might be Right
-
“Today’s Morocco is Not That of the Past”
-
When Putsch Comes to Shove: A Historical Take on Trump’s Attack at the Capitol
-
The Significance of the Morocco-Israel-US Deal for Regional Peace
-
Undoing the GOP Manipulation of the Courts. What the US Can Learn From Germany
Global Politics Links
Global Politics on Linkedin
Global Politics Magazine, together with its group on Linked In, is intended to facilitate critical discussion and promote the exchange of ideas amongst international relations professionals, journalists and academics. 
Global Politics Facebook Group
Global Politics together with its Facebook group provides a forum in which journalists, academics, international relations professionals and the next generation of global policy makers can exchange insights, debate viewpoints, and develop new approaches.
© 2026 Global Politics. Powered by WordPress.
