US-Iran Conflict: Oil Volatility and Global Economic Crisis
By Dr Kalim Siddiqui
This article examines oil control, US-led war, economic crisis, and contested US hegemony. Dr Kalim Siddiqui argues that British imperialism installed...
Dutch Commercial Capitalism: Rise and Decline in the 16th–17th Centuries
By Dr Kalim Siddiqui
The Dutch Republic’s rise to global dominance and its quiet decline reveal how financialisation, capital outflows, and institutional stagnation can erode...
Junior Partners in Empire: Indian Merchants and the Opium Trade, 1773–1900
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
This paper examines how Indian merchants such as Parsi, Marwari, Baghdadi Jewish and others accumulated capital as junior partners in the...
The Unravelling of Dollar Hegemony: Debt, Rentier Power, and the Crisis of US Global...
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
The erosion of US dollar hegemony—driven by structural debt, financialisation, geopolitical fragmentation, and reserve diversification—signals a historic inflection point in the...
Crusade and Commerce: Portuguese Mercantilism in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1600.
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
This study reinterprets sixteenth-century Portuguese expansion by challenging conventional views of early mercantilism. Dr Kalim Siddiqui argues that Portugal’s pursuit of...
United States Strategy in an Era of Petrodollar Decline and Multipolarity
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
This paper explores the shift from the Bretton Woods system to the petrodollar era and the emergence of a multipolar financial...
Monopoly Capitalism and the Concentration of Capital in Production and Digital Technologies
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
This article examines the structural dynamics of monopoly capitalism, tracing its evolution from national industrial concentration to global digital-finance monopolies. Drawing...
Innovation, Investment Criteria, and Economic Growth in Late-Industrializing Economies
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
This study examines the effect of innovation on economic growth in the developing countries. Dr Kalim Siddiqui’s findings show that innovation...
Education Under Neoliberalism: The Political Economy of Development in the Global South
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
This article investigates the role of education in the Global South, highlighting its economic, social, and political significance. Dr Kalim Siddiqui...
The United States’ Future in an Imperial Mirror: Lessons from Britain, Spain, Abbasids, Rome,...
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
Situating the United States' contemporary decline within a long historical continuum of imperial collapse, this article employs a comparative framework to analyse...
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China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth
By Danny Leipziger
China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives?
China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...
