Bob Savic says having recently consolidated their power domestically, both leaders should have a freer hand to cooperate and advance common goals, among them a resolution of the North Korea nuclear stand-off. China’s 19th Communist Party Congress ended with the inclusion of President Xi Jinping’s name and political thought into the party’s constitution, elevating his status as a...Read More

Former global energy competitors and geopolitical rivals in the Middle East and Central Asia, Russia and Saudi Arabia have been resolving their differences in order to build a long term strategic partnership. Recent backdrop to Russia-Saudi relations Following on from Saudi’s deputy Crown Prince and Defence Minister, Prince Mohammed’s visit to Moscow, in early 2017,...Read More

A major theme of the US and Western commentariat in recent months has been the way in which so-called “grown-ups” from the Washington foreign and security policy establishment have stepped in to control the “reckless and irresponsible” President Trump. Given the record of that establishment over the past two decades, one might be pardoned for...Read More

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) already the most water stressed region in the world, faces a worsening crisis in terms of its access to water in the decades to come. A country is water stressed when it cannot provide the minimum water supply to satisfy the essential needs of its population. This is...Read More

Qatar has called the list of demands by Saudi Arabia and its allies “unrealistic and not actionable”, meaning that the boycott will continue and probably intensify. Anatol Lieven, Professor at Georgetown University in Qatar, told valdaiclub.com why Qatar will attempt to stand firm. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE.Read More

Princeton University Professor John Ikenberry, one of the most articulate defenders of the open, rules-based system that dominates international politics today, claims that the past two centuries should be remembered as “the liberal ascendancy.” In this narrative, conservatives have become economic liberals, socialists have become social liberals, the institutions that regulate international affairs have proliferated...Read More

Marriage between the Economist and the New Left Review may seem like one of Hieronymus Bosch’s stranger copulations. Liberal capitalists and Marxists have been drawn passionately together over the past few decades in one area: their common utopian belief in the development of a globalized world without nationalism and national borders, a dream now dying in...Read More

The outcome of the recent referendum on the question of Britain’s membership in the European Union has many important implications. These range from the exact modalities of Britain’s future relationship with the EU and other EU-member states, the free movement of labour on the continent, the continued stability of the UK housing market, financial services...Read More

Viara Bojkova, Head of Geo-Economics Programme & Senior Research Fellow at the GPI, has written a chapter on “The nature, impact and lessons of Abenomics”, which will be published in “Advances in Geoeconomics” (edited by J Mark Munoz, Routledge 2016) in April 2017. In her chapter, Viara Bojkova outlines the background to the implementation of the...Read More

GPI Senior Research Fellow, Bob Savic, has been quoted in a recent article on CNN, commenting on the increasingly close ties between Russia and China: “”Driven by strengthening personal ties between Putin and Xi, the breadth and depth of China-Russia relations have spilled over into multiple spheres of governmental and institutional policymaking”. To read the...Read More