Moscow benefits most from the current stalemate between Iran and the West—providing it does not escalate into war or lead to Tehran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons. For this reason, Russian…

[escenic_image id="5537561"] Sovereign Debt and Market Confidence When EU Finance Ministers met in Brussels on 16 February to consider Greece’s budget deficit and public debt divergence from the…

[escenic_image id="5533406"]The past couple of months have seen the emergence of a surprising new internet music hit. The hit in question is a rap entitled Fear the Boom and Bust and is sung by the…

[escenic_image id="5530510"]The classical model for multilateral trade negotiations would include trade liberalisation through tariff reductions and elimination of non-tariff barriers. This model…

[escenic_image id="5526390"]We may be living in a high-tech world but agriculture remains the dominating sector in the Doha negotiations of the World Trade Organization (WTO). For almost a decade,…

[escenic_image id="5522874"]Is China about to revalue its national currency, the renminbi? As its economy heads into a second year of rapid recovery from the economic crisis, rumours are circulating…

[escenic_image id="5519557"]The Dubai World debt rescheduling certainly provided dramatic effect for newspapers and media outlets around the world.  The economist titled its article about the Abu…

[escenic_image id="5520896"]‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of disbelief,…

[escenic_image id="5513439"]The world's tallest tower was inaugurated in Dubai, the UAE, on January 4. This article, however, has nothing to do with the elevation of the tower, which is 828 meters …

[escenic_image id="5515425"]A decade separates the collapse of the World Trade Organisation’s meeting in Seattle in 1999 and December’s messy climate change summit in Copenhagen. But the parallels…