The World Association of Political Economy (WAPE) has organized in cooperation with the Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) its 15th annual forum on December 18 and 19 in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. The forum was titled this year “Rethinking economic analysis: Perspective of political economy”. Sessions were organized both online and in presence. More than 300 hundred speakers from ...

Italy and France have signed a pact for greater cooperation on various issues, the so-called ‘Trattato del Quirinale’, a name chosen to evoke the Elysée Treaty which, in 1963, brought France and Germany closer together. The bilateral agreement aims to consolidate relations between Paris and Rome, and in the intentions of the leaders, it serves to favor the process of ...

Libya’s elections have been postponed, leading to new uncertainties in the country and the regions. Following its recent webinar on Libya with the participation of the Chairman of Libya’s High Council of State, Khaled al-Mishri, which has received considerable international attention, UWI organizes a new online press meeting. The new webinar titled “Postponement of elections and the quest for peace ...

The World Association of Political Economy (WAPE) has organized in cooperation with the Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) its 15th annual forum on December 18 and 19 in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. The forum was titled this year “Rethinking economic analysis: Perspective of political economy”. Sessions were organized both online and in presence. More than 300 hundred speakers from ...

Buenos Aires, 23rd of December 2021 On June 20, 2018, when the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved the largest loan in its history: $50 billion to the Argentine Republic, this South American country was governed by the right-wing Mauricio Macri (2015-2019), while the IMF was led by Christine Lagarde (2011-2019), today president of the European Central Bank. It was already ...

By Tunç Akkoç The new Foreign Minister of Germany has had a quick start to her job. Annalena Baerbock, who flew to Paris on the first evening the day of the oath ceremony, made her first visit to France. Baerbock, who has made six trips in seven days, visited five cities, attended the G7 Foreign Ministers summit and the EU ...

Born 1942 in Bamako, Aminata Dramane Traoré is a Malian author and political activist. She has served her country as Minister for Culture and Tourism from 1997 to 2000 and has also worked in United Nations Development Programme. Traoré has been and is a loud critic of globalization, neo-colonization and gender oppression. She has written several books that criticize the ...

The World Association of Political Economy (WAPE) has organized in cooperation with the Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) its 15th annual forum on December 18 and 19 in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. The forum was titled this year “Rethinking economic analysis: Perspective of political economy”. Sessions were organized both online and in presence. More than 300 hundred speakers from ...

Hurricanes and the destruction they cause are spectacular. Despite appearing regularly in the American South, they are still considered to be dangerous and unpredictable. From a day to day perspective they are dangerous and destructive, but from a wider economic perspective, they potentially affect opportunities for recovery and GDP growth. Some of them, such as Katrina and Ida which occured ...

Life on earth – with all its organic forms and features – is under attack. Along with the raging and destructive capitalist system, a new threat has emerged as an inquisitorial ideology: “transhumanism”. In fact, transhumanism is merely a technologic metamorphosis, thus an adjusted application of the methods of capitalism on human nature. Some big-tech companies now have more resources ...

Last week the public agenda in Turkey has been busy with three main topics. First was the normalization process that began between Turkey and Armenia. Second were the Vatan Party Chairman Dogu Perincek’s statements regarding the possible membership of some other Eurasian countries such as Iran, Russia, China or Tajikistan in the Organization of Turkic States. Third were the sharp ...

The process of normalization of relations between countries in the South Caucasus has begun. Especially the negotiations between Baku and Yerevan have started. Ankara and Moscow also support the decisions taken in meetings of presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia Ilham Aliyev and Nikol Pashinyan. Turkey and Russia are also working actively on the topic of the “3 + 3” cooperation ...