Whether you’re a political junkie or an entrepreneur, keeping your eye on international affairs is a key component to making good decisions. Staying informed about the direction the global political and economic winds are blowing can help you to avoid blunders...
The core trend behind international technology is connectivity. The simplicities of transferring, creating and receiving data are what establish our new international grounds. Global citizens, for the first time, have direct access to one another. This type of...
Over the last century, it has been no secret that competition over oil supplies has largely determined the political relationship between some of the world’s biggest powers. Accounting for up to 3% of the entire global economy, the oil market is currently one of...
Over the past few years, “Brexit” has become a buzzword. Brexit is a combination of British and exit, hence Brexit. Essentially, it means that the United Kingdom (UK) wants to leave the European Union (EU). The EU is massive, containing 28 countries in Europe. Within...
With its headquarters in New York, the United Nations (U.N.) is an international organization made up of 193 member states. The U.N. was formed on October 24, 1945. After World War II, representatives of 50 nations came together to draw up the charter for what was to...
Although the term has been around since the early 1990s, geoeconomics as a concept is only now seeming to gain traction in mainstream news coverage as geopolitical relationships are increasingly intertwined with economic strategies such as sanctions, tariffs, foreign...
