Professor Michael Hudson at the Washington, D.C. Institute.
Last week MEI Director Michael Hudson gave a talk at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. entitled “Middle East Turmoil and American Decline: Views from Singapore and Asia.” He addressed the oft-stated view that the United States is in decline while China rises.
Hudson discussed how U.S. military [...]
By Nurhidayahti Mohammad Miharja
Energy services, which serve as the main driving force behind any economy, have always been highly dependent on fossil fuels. Citizens and leaders alike in both developed and developing countries are undertaking initiatives to reduce fossil fuel dependency, particularly in light of the recent surge of geopolitical risk factors that have destabilized [...]
By Robert R. Bianchi
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Barack Obama and Hu Jintao, 2009.
President Mohamed Morsy’s historic visit to Beijing has once again thrust Egypt to center stage in world affairs after three decades of isolation and passivity.[1] Egypt is joining a long line of regional powers in the Middle East and the Islamic world that [...]
By Ali Kadri
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Every market is a process of social and power relationships. In every market there are price makers and price takers. The oil market, however, is no ordinary market, and the struggle to control the oil market, therefore, is no ordinary struggle. With oil being rudimentary to global production/accumulation and [...]
By Nurhidayahti Mohammad Miharja
On 6 April 2012, MEI was pleased to host a panel discussion on “China and the Middle East: Implications of a Rising Political and Economic Relationship.” Wu Bingbing, an associate professor in the Department of Arabic Language and Culture at Peking University, Dr. Bo Zhiyue, Senior Research Fellow at NUS’ East Asia [...]
By Abdulkhaleq Abdulla
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2011, the year of the “Arab Spring,” was an epochal one in contemporary Arab history. 2011 will also likely go down as a turning point in the Arab world’s perception of China and its relationship with the rising Asian power.
For the past 60 years, the Arab world has generally [...]
