More than $75bn of construction projects were awarded in Gulf states last year, with much more expected, but the cranes across Riyadh, Muscat, and Dubai are building more than just skylines.
Ever since the UAE and Israel signed on September 15, 2020, the normalization agreement between the two countries, a wave of interest of new economic horizons have emerged in the region, as…
U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear agreement in May 2018 with the express purpose of pressuring Iran into negotiating a deal more favorable to the United States. To that end,…
The international arms embargo against Iran expired on Sunday despite opposition from the United States which insists the ban remains in place. But whileTehranis boasting about the possibility of re…
In "The Pointless Cruelty of Trump's New Syria Sanctions" (August 17, 2020),Joshua LandisandSteven Simonargue that the new American sanctions imposed against backers of the Syrian regime harm…
The past few years have seen a heated debate amongU.S.politicians and analysts about whetherthe United Statesshould "decouple" fromChinaby severing the supply chains, trade relationships, and…
Among the many sobering projections of harm to be caused by climate change is this eye-popping statistic: on average, according to economists, a rise in local temperature of half a degree Celsius is…
A World Trade Organization panel ruled Tuesday the Trump administration violated international trade rules by trying to stop China's blatant violations of international trade rules.
The ruling…
The Trump administration’s bid to trigger snapback sanctions through the UN has thrown into sharp relief the already grim economic predicament gripping Tehran. Senior officials are publicly…
Opponents of economic globalization often point to the ways it has widened inequality within nations in recent decades. Inthe United States, for instance, wages have remained fairly stagnant since…
In recent years, academics and policymakers inthe United Stateshave struggled with an economic mystery. Why, even as theU.S.economy has grown in the past few decades, have wages remained relatively…
Israel's commandeering of aid distribution in Gaza forces starving Palestinians to run the gauntlet at centres with biometric monitoring systems, armed security, and life-or-death hazards