Biden’s Economic Plan: A Paradigm Change in American Economic Policy?

With the Biden administration, the “defeatist view” that governments cannot counter the forces of automation and globalisation may...

Is China Creating Debt Traps in the Developing World?

This discussion paper looks into China’s financial relations with developing countries in recent years, amid claims that Beijing...

How the Fight over Covid-19 Vaccines will Shape Global Inequality

This discussion paper argues that unless there is a strong and well-coordinated international cooperation effort, the Covid-19 vaccination...

The Neo-Liberal Roots of ‘Trumpism’: American Economic Policy in the Post-Trump Era

Given the long-term trends of the American economy, the Trump presidency is not the cause but a symptom...

The G20 Summit in Saudi Arabia: Expectations and Realities

The Covid-19 pandemic, as a once-in-a-lifetime crisis that has impacted the entire world, represents the ultimate test for...

Rethinking Islam and the West: A New Narrative for the Age of Crises

In this book, Ahmed Paul Keeler examines the worldview, until comparatively recently unquestioned, of ever continuing human progress....

Financing the Pandemic: The Political Economy of Rising Government Debt

This discussion paper advances the idea that the Covid-19 pandemic has been a seismic event for government economic...

The Geopolitics of the Renewable Energy Transition: Winners and Losers

This paper argues that the ongoing transition towards renewable energy has significant implications beyond environmental impacts. The transition...

Voting in the Time of Corona: The Economic Dimension of the 2020 US Presidential Elections

If the economic impact of Covid-19 remains short-lived and the American economy quickly returns to some sense of...

The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Global Outlook

This book is an endeavour to search for meaning through an examination of possible implications of the Covid-19...