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Deep Dive: Can Economic Sanctions Work Against Russia? At What Cost?

There is a need to put in greater thought into the design and implementation of sanctions regimes, preferably through multilateral institutions that command the legitimacy of the international comity of nations.
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Beyond Geopolitics: Why There is an Economic Motive to the Changing Relations in the Middle-East

The re-alignments taking place in the Middle East, such as the improvement of ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates are driven by geopolitical factors. However there is a strong economic component which often tends to get relegated to the sidelines.
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Jal Vivad: An Enquiry Into India’s Water Disputes

Conflicts are eternal, what matters is how they are dealt with. India has managed to keep her international water conflicts at bay but her domestic conflicts often get out of hand and become violent at the first chance that people see.
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Wading through Irrationality: Demystifying Emotional Finance

Since the beginning of time, traditional financial decision-making has been based on logic, arithmetic, and statistical measures, neglecting emotions. Emotional finance studies how conscious and unconscious emotions influence investors’ individual decision-making that come to climax markets’ development.
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The Rise and (Potential) Fall of Netflix

Over the past decade, Netflix has become a household name in entertainment and pop culture. The first half of 2022, however, has not been particularly kind to the company.
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Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Could Be the Way Out of Brexit’s Economic Mess for the UK. Here’s How

This article examines the impact on the UK’s SMEs as a result of Brexit and whether the current economic policy framework is equipped to alleviate the adverse effects of Brexit.
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Power Insecurity in India: Over-reliance on Coal and the Future of Green Energy

In May 2022, states across India issued panic warnings regarding low coal reserves, highlighting the problem of potential electricity blackouts. This article deals with the reasons for India’s current power insecurity.
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New Labour Codes: Pro-business or Pro-labour?

This article examines how—and why—the new labour codes, which have the potential to change the labour market, are creating unrest among the workers with their pitfalls.
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Can Game Theory Help Understand Human Behavior in Times of Crisis?

Human behaviour often follows a pattern – there is an event, then a reaction, and then further reactions, few of them original, many of them borrowed. It is usually the most negative events – like crises, that evoke the most powerful reactions from people, surely replicated by others in some form or other. But what…
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The Saudi Arabian Resource Curse: Cultivating Socio-Economic Ignorance on Overdependence?

This column elucidates the resource curse paradox by positioning the case study of Saudi Arabia at the center of the concept. It delineates the disadvantageous position of this resource-rich country during the period of shock and its recovery phase. Furthermore, it paints in words the implications of oil abundance on the imperfect correlation that exists…
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Record Labels: The Third-Party Monopolies in the Music Industry

For the past century or so, it is the record labels that have been influential in the growth of the music industry, developing it into a commercial enterprise rather than artistic pursuit.
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The War Crimes of Russia

Clashes between Russia and Ukraine have been a mainstay for the last few years. Russia invaded and captured Crimea in 2014 and has unleashed a full blown war on Ukraine in 2022. This war is illegal and has broken multiple international criminal, humanitarian and human rights laws. This article focuses on the international criminal aspects…
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