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The popular protests this year in North Africa and the Middle East - known as the Arab Spring - have cost the region more than $50bn, a new report says. The report, by consultancy group Geopolicity, says Egypt, Syria and Libya paid the highest financial p...
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left!
Last week a number of Israeli’s were killed by Palestinian’s and a number of Palestinian’s were killed by Israelis. An vicious cycle of loss leading to ever more loss, with each grave a...
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My company Geopolicity has been leading research into the economics of piracy. See our story on the BBC.
Piracy off the Somali coast costs the international community up to $8.3bn (£5.1bn) a year, a new report from the Geopolicity consultancy...
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Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics. Yet, whilst films such as The Pirates of the Caribbean and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid have gone a long way to popularise both pirates and outlaw behavi...
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Few other countries have been through the birth pains that have been epitomized by Southern Sudan. The scars of civilian conflict and bitter internecine fighting will take a generation or more to heal, yet the results of the January 9, 2011 referendum ar...
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Created on the 1st of May 1707, as the once largest empire in history and the first industrial state, the United Kingdom of Great Britain has certainly been an important player in world affairs. That all Time Zones start in Greenwich London need not be l...
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The ripple effect of the global financial crisis will likely erode the shores of once affluent economies for decades to come. Furthermore, it is going to take a lot more than a Keynesian sleight of hand to correct two decades of easy money, poor oversight and ...
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Five years after US coalition forces commenced Operation Enduring Freedom, the steadily rising tide of insurgency in southern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan continues to characterize the beleaguered international stabilisation effort. In the presence ...
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