In January, I expressed optimism that a recession across the Western world (and beyond) was becoming less likely, and high-frequency indicators since then have indeed supported a benign outlook. This ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-10
... ithin the Western academe, only to be told – at some point over the past few years – that their research is too “sensitive”, too “dangerous”, and too “intertwined” with particular foreign forces to be ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-10
... erica and Western Europe. But lower- and middle-income countries have their own baseline needs, concerns, and social inequities to consider. There is ample research showing that technologies developed ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-09
... es in the Western world, would be well advised to concentrate less on hurt feelings and more on voters’ economic and political interests. Copyright: Project Syndicate-- Contact us at [email protected] ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-08
... onomy, as Western leaders had hoped. But economic sanctions alone were never going to be enough to topple Putin’s regime. After all, the only reason why sanctions succeeded in South Africa in the 1980 ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-06
... ainian or Western encroachments; he simply wanted to pursue his imperial ambitions. The possibility of a Russian victory in Ukraine has caused panic among Russia’s neighbors in Central and Eastern Eur ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-02
... security. Western countries’ withdrawal from nuclear energy over the past few decades has enabled Russia to establish itself as the leading international provider of reactors, services, and financing ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-02
... laints by Western countries that are 20 times richer are simply not credible. While the scandal surrounding the Adani empire does not seem to extend beyond the conglomerate itself, the case does have ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-23
... he said. Western leaders responded with scepticism. “China has taken a position on the war,” said Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, in Munich. “It is not neutral. We have ta ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-22
... and other western countries. In May 2020, then U.S. president Donald Trump announced the end of Hong Kong’s special status on the ground that China had stripped Hong Kong of its autonomy. The Biden ad ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-10
... the lame Western reaction to his land grab in 2014, when he occupied Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine. Multiple voices on Russian propaganda channels are clear that the ambition is both territoria ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-03
... ests that Western leaders, in general, are uncomfortable with the prospect of NATO directly engaging in war with Russia. The West’s plan, at least for now, seems to be to supply Ukraine with enough eq ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-02
... ith other Western democracies, gradually opened up, enabling people to go about their business in relative safety. Even without Xi’s absolutist aspirations, this would have been hard to achieve in Chi ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-18
These cold winter nights, electric lights flood a site of 213,000 square metres in Kumamoto prefecture, western Japan. Workers and building machines are labouring 24 hours a day to complete the first ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-16
... t for his Western allies lest they blame Ukraine for prolonging the war. ANY MEDIATOR? Ripeness Theory suggests that a mediator is vital for initiating negotiations. A mediator could bring breakthroug ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-09
... from the Western Pacific – and the US-Japan alliance is stronger today than it was at the end of the Cold War. Yes, analysts sometimes draw more pessimistic conclusions from war games designed to sim ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-06
