At the beginning of June of this year, India is experiencing the fastest expansion of Covid-19 infections in the world and the numbers continue to grow faster than anywhere else. Add to the figures the fact that due to the sub-standard infrastructure of the country huge numbers of infected people and the dead will never…
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Life after the Pandemic
[ ... ]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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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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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…
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‘Security Brexit’: Johnson follows Trump in the Persian Gulf
[ ... ]In aligning himself with US President Trump with regard to policing the Gulf, the new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has abandoned any pretense that his type of Brexit would exclude security and defense matters. This is in sharp contrast to the May government before him which has always insisted that it was willing and…