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 Michael C. Hudson and Rana B. Khoury
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If you have been following the presidential campaigns lately, you would be excused for missing the candidates’ ideas about foreign policy. America is still conducting the longest war in its history, is witnessing a shift in global power eastward, is apparently [...]
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 [...]
