Milking the Mighty Mekong
How damming SEA’s largest river is hurting the region, and how a grassroots electricity movement could help It begins on the Tibetan Plateau, where heavy […]
Economics
Ancient Partners: The Legend Behind Indo-Korean Relations and its Modern Impact
During a visit to South Korea in 2012, Gursharan Kaur, wife of former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, inquired about the number of Indians living […]
Giving Birth to Southeast Asia’s New Megacities
The year is 2040. The highways are lined with trees, stretching their green canopy over your morning commute. Traffic is light, a gift of good […]
Reading Trump’s Whimsical Stance on TPP
Earlier in January, US President Donald Trump expressed interest in rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on the condition that the United States strike a “substantially […]
How to Lose Friends and Alienate Your Allies
On March 8, US President Donald Trump defied sage economic advice and followed his political gut by signing tariffs on imported steel (25%) and aluminum […]
Where is the Turkish Economy Today?
By Özge Taylan As the world’s 18th and Europe’s 7th largest economy, a dynamic member of the G-20 and part of the OECD, the Turkish […]
Brain Drain in Putin’s Russia
In 2010, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene”, a material […]
How Socialist Remnants Are Hurting Vietnam’s Legacy
During the mid-1980s, Vietnam was plunged into a profound socio-economic crisis. Against this backdrop, the shift away from a centrally planned economic model initiated in […]
Trickling Down? Reassessing Today’s Global Economy
They say it will trickle down. While globalization is an undeniable reality today, it is hard to pinpoint when it began. History is replete with […]
KORUS FTA: An Uncertain Future
One of Donald Trump’s favorite targets on the campaign trail were trade deals. Last fall he said, “We are killing ourselves with trade pacts.” Now […]