Energy in Iraq: the new front line between Washington and Tehran

Baghdad is opening its energy sector to US investment while racing to diversify oil exports, strengthen its economy, and reduce its vulnerability to regional conflict

Salam Zaidan

A Battle Plan for the World Bank

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David Miliband

Oman Vision 2040

In the last few decades, economic diversification has been a top priority of all the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Even prior to the drop in oil prices in mid 2014, their leaders…

Yasmine El Geressi

Globalization 4.0

The world today needs a new framework for global cooperation in order to preserve peace and accelerate progress. After the cataclysm of World War II, leaders designed a set of institutional…

Klaus Schwab

The Free-Trade Paradox

“We must always take heed that we buy no more of strangers than we sell them, for so we should impoverish ourselves and enrich them.” Those words, written in 1549 and attributed to the English…

Alan S. Blinder

There Is No Grand Bargain With China

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Ely Ratner