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Dan Mikhaylov
Can Japan’s Militarist Past Provide a Source for Its Economic Future?
The economic slump that started off as the Lost Decade of the 1990s has since been rebranded as the Lost 30 Years as the Japanese economy continues to languish. Japan’s …
China’s Great Reset: The Communist Party’s Ambitious Economic Agenda
This year, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) celebrated its centenary with a cascade of controversial economic undertakings. Ranging from stridulous regulations to pressure on Chinese multinational companies to re-list domestically, …
Gas Gridlock: What Will It Take To Resolve Eastern Mediterranean Tensions?
The end of the Eastern Mediterranean gas dispute is nowhere near in sight. Although Greece and Turkey assented to resume talks at the beginning of 2021 after a five-year hiatus, …
How the Iranian Economy is Failing its People
In Western discourse, Iran is customarily associated with its nuclear arms programme, detention of foreign nationals on controversial charges of espionage, or hostility towards the United States and Israel. Some …
The Japanese Economic Miracle: Stroke of Luck or Economic Revolution?
Between 1952 and 1989, Japan experienced rapid economic growth, becoming the second largest capitalist economy with more than $5 trillion in GDP. This remarkable transformation from a nation left browbeaten …
Will the Pakistan Democratic Movement oust Imran Khan?
Given the usually fragmented character of Pakistani politics, it was surprising that as many as eleven political parties, ranging from the secular nationalist Awami National Party to the religious reactionaries, …
How COVID-19 is Changing the Case for Taxation
Editor’s note: This piece was among the finalists in The London Globalist’s First Annual Writing Competition about how COVID-19 is changing society. Read the winning piece here, along with the …
Who Will Lead the Muslim World: Turkey or Indonesia?
To summarise developments within the Islamic world between 2010 and 2020 as turbulent would be an understatement. Drastic regional realignments caused by the stentorian momentum of the Arab Spring and …