CIRSD Co-organized the Assilah International Forum
The Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD) co-organized this year’s Assilah International Forum in Morocco, an annual gathering devoted to formulating optimal responses to key political and economic challenges in the wider Mediterranean area. This year’s Assilah Forum…
The Turkish Enigma
In my “Net Assessment of the World,” I argued that four major segments of the European and Asian landmass were in crisis: Europe, Russia, the Middle East (from the Levant to Iran) and China. Each crisis was different; each was at a different stage of development. Collectively the crises threatened t…
China already number one, says the IMF
If the International Monetary Fund is right, we can stop speculating about when China will overtake the United States to become the world’s biggest economy. It’s already happened. The IMF’s new data set, released in April with its latest World Economic Outlook report, estimates that in real terms (c…