Brexit The Brexit Vote: A Financial Thunderclap With Long-Term Consequences Brexit and London’s Role as an Islamic Banking Hub: Is the Glass Half Empty, or Half Full? Syria Political Economy Society Capitalism Russia Governance The Case for the Green State Anti-Corruption Drive – Critical to Future, International by Nature Philippines Reflections on the Post-Aquino Philippine-China Relations: Taking into Account the Realities of Geopolitics South China Sea Finance Economy Turkey
How the Brexit Referendum was Trumped: Personality, Protest and Patriotism
Glyn Atwal and Douglas Bryson
Vassilis Fouskas
Sohail Jaffer
Understanding the Numbers: The Lives of Syrian Refugees
Jeffrey Cohen
Would You Buy a Ticket for the Titanic? Nationalism is Not the Answer to the Economic and Political Crisis
Irene Caratelli
Xenophobia in the UK
Julian Vigo
Usury in the 21st Century
Richard Westra
Is the Russian Economy Finally Tilting East?
Vladimir Popov
From the “Tragedy of the Commons” to the Tragedy of Enclosures
Olivier De Schutter and Katharina Pistor
William Hawes
Dan Steinbock
The Philippine National Election 2016: The Good, the Bad and The Ugly
Pauline Eadie
Renato Cruz De Castro
Time for Reset and Realism in the South China Sea
Dan Steinbock
Regulation of Shadow Banking
Roy Girasa
The Rise of Uber and the Sharing Economy
Jared Meyer
Erdoğan’s Coup: Purging Domestic Critics, Gaining External Allies
James Petras
July-August 2016
The Case for the Green State
In this article, the author discusses how green politics can create ecologically sustainable societies that can put an end to the various crises that our world inherits such as violence, poverty and social injustice.
Reflections on the Post-Aquino Philippine-China Relations: Taking into Account the Realities of Geopolitics
This article examines how the Philippines challenged China’s expansive maritime claim in the South China Sea during President Aquino’s term and also explores the crucial question of whether the next administration will continue or discontinue the Aquino Administration’s geo-political agenda.
Xenophobia in the UK
by Julian Vigo
Racism and xenophobia cannot be spun into class solidarity, nor can they be forgotten away as if some new class spirit will erase the eruption of hyper-nationalism. Race as a construct is a tool to silence those who are disposable by those who feel authorised to dispose.
The Philippine National Election 2016: The Good, the Bad and The Ugly
Rodrigo Duterte was elected president of the Philippines in May 2016. Arguably Duterte’s electoral success was down to his straight talking approach and “authoritarian nostalgia”. This article reviews the highs and lows of his campaign and the challenges before him.
Post-Brexit Africa
Whatever its final impact, in the short-term the UK’s EU referendum will increase global economic uncertainty, market volatility and economic risk. In Africa, most scenarios will prove costly, particularly among those economies highly exposed to UK trade, investment, banking and remittances.
Brexit Adds to Global Uncertainty
Dan Steinbock discussed that UK referendum will foster substantial economic uncertainty, market volatility and political risk, which could lead London and Brussels back to the negotiating deal.
Usury in the 21st Century
Neoliberal deregulation commencing in the closing decades of the 20th century put into play a global financial system which operates as a reincarnation of ancient usury.
Blame Austerity – Not Immigration – For Taking Britain To ‘Breaking Point’
Immigration is at the heart of the Brexit debate and is quite polarised. On one side, the Remain campaign either ducks the issue or focusses on the benefits that immigration brings to the economy as a whole. On the other side, the Leave camp focuses on its costs and plays into fears that migrants are putting pressure on public services that are already at breaking point.
Philippines 2016: Navigating Between the US and China
In the past six years, Washington and Manila have been cementing a military alliance, which is reassuring to many Filipinos but leaves some apprehensive – including the leading presidential contenders.
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