A geopolitical guide for entrepreneurs to gauge changes caused by Covid-19 1- Introduction: Markets and their environment Covid-19 is a larger than life illustration that all markets, physical or digital, are tied to a real market place with its particular political, economic and societal, in short: geopolitical features. They determine any changes in the market…
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‘Lasst uns diese Krise nicht vergeuden!’
[ ... ]Der durch das Virus verursachten medizinischen Krise folgt die Wirtschaftskrise. Die Ausweitung von Staatsbudgets zu ihrer Meisterung könnte eine Möglichkeit sein, grosse Zukunftsprobleme anzugehen. Das Coronavirus wird zu einem grundlegenden Wechsel in der Wirtschaftspolitik führen. Die Zentralbanken, welche in den letzten zehn Jahren mit Zinssenkungen und Ausweitung der Geldmenge (quantitative easing) die Weltwirtschaft nach der…
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Europe under threat
[ ... ]Yes, by the Corona virus like everybody else, but also by the fighting in Syria and Libya. Can Europe, can the EU react adequately? And what will Brexit Britain do? Covid-19 dominates not only the media headlines but the everyday life of just about anybody in Europe. In the federalist EU, it is still up…
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India between global economics and Hindu nationalism
[ ... ]India is currently torn between challenges of global economic competition and self-imposed limitations derived from Hindu nationalism. Since its inception as the independent Republic of India, the country has been living with two strategic and psychological traumas: the Partition of 1947, with which the Muslim League took away half of India’s Muslim population and founded…
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Westasien: der Mittlere und der Nahe Osten
[ ... ]Der Mittlere und speziell der Nahe Osten werden nicht unbedingt ‘Asien’ zugeordnet, wo China und allenfalls Indien im Mittelpunkt stehen. Aber auch Westasien ist Teil des Grossraums Asien-Pazifik (AP). Nicht nur geographisch. Zahlreiche geopolitische Voraussetzungen – also der politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Hintergrund – der Region Mittlerer Osten sind mit anderen Teilen des AP’s vergleichbar:…
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Continental Europe now on its own
[ ... ]Boris Johnson’s Brexit, coming on the heels of a recent tepid endorsement of NATO by Donald Trump’s USA, is another reminder that Europe, minus the UK will have to do more for its defence. On occasion of the last NATO-summit the widening gap between Western Europe – Eastern Europe clings to the Atlantic security treaty…
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Clouds in the East
[ ... ]The rapidly deteriorating situation in the Asia-Pacific/Indo-Pacific threatens peace and prosperity in the rest of the world, too. Can Europe do anything to prevent further sliding? ‘The Asia-Pacific/Indo-Pacific (AP/IP) is the future’. That gospel has been, and is resonating in Europe, too. More than ever in the past, Europe’s prosperity, and relative peace worldwide as…