The Iran war is reshaping the China-Gulf economic model

Closing the Strait of Hormuz has shown how the Gulf should shift from an oil-export model to a digital and distribution hub. Will this trigger the long-delayed free trade agreement with China?

Charbel Barakat

A New Deal in Asia

[caption id="attachment_55253203" align="aligncenter" width="3681"] A truck driver walks past a shipping container being moved at the Yangshan Deep Water Port, part of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free…

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The Horn of Africa's Qat-22

[caption id="attachment_55253190" align="aligncenter" width="3000"] A Somali man chews khat in Uithoorn on January 12, 2012. The Dutch government on January 10 banned the use of khat, a leaf native…

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The Economics of Dependency

[caption id="attachment_55252963" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] A doctor walks past a poster at Italian fertility doctor Severino Antinori's clinic in Rome, June 2005. (REUTERS)[/caption] How…

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Guyana Strikes Oil

What the Windfall Means for the Country—and the Region [caption id="attachment_55252804" align="aligncenter" width="1634"] Guyana's President David Arthur Granger waves as he arrives at Punta Cana…

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