Has America, the bastion of freedom, finally imploded and succumbed to the ideals it earlier fought to preserve?REUTERS/Jim Urquhart Steadfast democracies throughout the world often call out the integrity of a national election when in question whether it be a Venezuelan-type dictatorship, a one-party communist regime, or a banana republic. United…

Steadfast democracies throughout the world often call out the integrity of a national election when in question, whether it be a Venezuelan-type dictatorship, a one-party communist regime, or a banana republic. United States often leads the charge as the standard bearer of fair elections in representing the free world and defender of the values founded…

Since months Turkish Lira losing its value and inflation is on the rise, the statistics shows that inflation increased from 8 percent by 17 percent and still climbs. According to the National Statistics Institute-Tüik, inflation jumped by 14.6 since 2020 and 17.84 % from the time when 2019. Turks have lost their reliance on Lira, so that people…

_ Yuri Kofner, junior economist, MIWI – Institute for Market Integration and Economic Policy. Munich, 12 January 2021.One of the main causes of the Ukrainian crisis in 2014 was the contradictory views between various groups, both within Ukraine and abroad, regarding the country’s possible future geopolitical and geoeconomics trajectory towards…

Evaluating Berlin’s position in diplomatic realm, Heiko Mass’ diplomatic conducts have been significantly encouraging. In comparison to his predecessor Sigmar Gabriel, Mass achieved a lot, while fighting for his impetus and momentum both home and abroad. As a junior member of the grand coalition, he has to encourage not only CDU’s conservative…

American values versus German Americans have faith in that people have the right to individual freedom, which asserts people are free to think, speak and act as long as they do not affront the freedom and rights of others. This is what John Locke said in 16 century, one’s freedom ends when the other’s freedom begins. He moved on and said the…

For the first time in the last two decades, India and Russia have not held their annual summit. Moscow communicated severe concerns on New Delhi joining the Indo-Pacific initiative and Quad, thereby leaning more towards the US. India and Russia have been holding the annual summit, which is the uppermost institutionalized dialogue instrument in the…

I have been living for quite some time in Germany, and as national security and counter terrorism Analyst, I have observed the socio-economic, political and security developments in the country. In order to get an exact posture of the Germany foreign policy objectives, I joined a couple of leading political parties and even endeavored to get along…

Dr. Salam Al Rabadi: Author And Researcher In International Relations. It is logical to emphasize the relativity of science, as the position on the teleology (and finality) of science and knowledge is characterized by suspicion and relativism, especially in light of this new global pattern on the level of political and economic corruption. This reality…

Over the past decade, geopolitical relations among the major powers have deteriorated and the threshold of nuclear use has lowered due to the near-total erosion of arms control, the modernisation of nuclear arsenals in all P5 states as well as a move, by some P5 states, to include “limited nuclear use” in their national security strategies. These…

Yuri Koffner in his RIAC article “Back to the future: German industrial Ordnungspolitik” wants to give Germans advice how to become a hi-tech nation comparable to the USA and China. What he proposes is also Back to the future, the old neoliberal program former German governments had executed for almost 2-3 decades without any success. Tax…

_ Yuri Kofner, junior economist, MIWI – Institute for Market Integration and Economic Policy. Munich, 3 December 2020.Industry (manufacturing) is of the utmost importance for the German economy in terms of macroeconomic value creation, productivity, innovation, and as an employer. The success of the German industry is based on the model of the social…