Geoeconomics

US-China: Geoeconomics Tussle

US-China: Geoeconomics Tussle

BY: Abu Hurrairah PEJOURNAL - Geoeconomics defines itself in two ways: One is the use of the economy to gain geographical or ‎territorial advantages. Second is the use of geographical location to achieve your economic ‎objectives. To understand this core concept in the contemporary world, the best examples to deal ‎with are China and the United States of America. They are keeping in mind that the primary goal of ‎both is to gain power, but the procedures are different. ‎ Talking about China first, we can say that China stands with the first definition of Geoeconomics. It ‎uses its location…
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An analytical approach to Iran-China Strategic Document

An analytical approach to Iran-China Strategic Document

BY: Mohammad Ghaderi and Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - The signing of the 25-year roadmap for comprehensive strategic cooperation between Iran and China, as expected, was met with a wave of marginalization based on distortion of reality by various currents inside and outside the country. The beginning of the drafting of this upstream document, on which Iran and China have agreed as a roadmap for the realization of comprehensive strategic cooperation between the two countries, coincided with the official visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Iran on February 23, 2016. At the time, Tehran and Beijing issued a joint statement…
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From Hegemony To Hedgemony

From Hegemony To Hedgemony

BY: Leonid Savin PEJOURNAL - The RAND corporation has unveiled a unique defence planning and response project called “Hedgemony”. As is clear from the name, it is a play on the words “hegemony” and “hedging”, i.e. managing and insuring against risk. “Hedgemony. A Game of Strategic Choices” is a practical tool that RAND researchers have created to teach US specialists in defence and related areas. Its mission is to provide a better understanding of how different strategies could influence key planning factors in the sphere of trade at the intersection of force development, force management, force posture, and force employment.…
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A Review of 25-Year Iran-China Plan

A Review of 25-Year Iran-China Plan

PEJOURNAL - "Iran-China relations are not a simple bilateral relationship. It will be very important in the political system of the world and in our region, and for this reason it has opponents", according to the website of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, in the meeting held by the International Assembly of Muslim University Professors, Hossein Malaek, Iran’s former ambassador to China, said that China’s Serious Geopolitical Need for Iran He cited the lack of a model for the development of regular and precise and so-called organized relations as one of the weaknesses of all agreements between Iran and…
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Foreign Policy:  The Pandemic Could Be the Crisis Liberalism Needed

Foreign Policy: The Pandemic Could Be the Crisis Liberalism Needed

BY: Matt Warner* , Tom G. Palmer* PEJOURNAL - The world may be reaching a dangerous inflection point for liberalism. According to the latest reports from Freedom House, over the last 15 years the share of unfree countries in the world has risen while the share of free countries has dropped. Today, government deficits are spiking in response to the public’s demand for intervention to mitigate the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, and some warn that authoritarian leaders are seizing the opportunity to expand their control. Still, this may be a time when liberalism starts to gain ground, not…
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From City-State to National-State

From City-State to National-State

Many explanations have been offered for why the dominant city-states of Italy declined, giving way to the larger, national states of Western Europe. Some, like World Systems theorists, have seen the decline of the Italian city-states as the result of the shift of trade from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, while others, like Richard Lachmann, have focused on institutional arrangements that rendered these systems less resilient when faced by external threats. 
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Foreign Policy: How the World Will Look After the Coronavirus Pandemic

Foreign Policy: How the World Will Look After the Coronavirus Pandemic

The pandemic will change the world forever. Foreign Policy Magazine asked 12 leading global thinkers for their predictions. PEJOURNAL - Like the fall of the Berlin Wall or the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the coronavirus pandemic is a world-shattering event whose far-ranging consequences we can only begin to imagine today. This much is certain: Just as this disease has shattered lives, disrupted markets and exposed the competence (or lack thereof) of governments, it will lead to permanent shifts in political and economic power in ways that will become apparent only later. To help us make sense of the ground shifting…
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How Long Will Trump’s Confrontation with China Last?

How Long Will Trump’s Confrontation with China Last?

PEJOURNAL - The conflict between China and the United States has a long history, but during Trump's presidency, the conflict has become more apparent, and Trump is trying to change the structure of relations between the two countries. The United States and China were informal allies during the Cold War against the Soviet Union. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States changed its view of China tillthe 1990s, so much so that China was identified as one of the most serious threats to the United States in the 21st century, according to a future congressional report. The…
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