Eurasia News

  On September 14th, the seventh session of the Certified Economic Diplomat Program at the Institute of Economics and Finance in Ghana featured a trio of eminent speakers who provided deep insights into the functions and impact of global development agencies. Ute Reisinger , Senior Environmental and Social Development Specialist at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Ricardo Gomez Puternicki , Senior Counsel at the OPEC Fund for International Development, and Florian Peter Iwinjak , External Relations Officer at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), each shared their perspectives on how their respective organizations contribute to international development. Ute Reisinger opened the session with a comprehensive overview of Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) and their role in financing sustainable development, with a particular emphasis on Africa. She traced the origins of DFIs to the Bretton Woods institutions—the International Monetary Fund...

  A fter two years and four months since its outbreak, the War in Ukraine has turned out to be arguably the most significant event in contemporary international relations. Although its warfare is limited to the geographic areas centered on eastern and southeastern parts of the country, the War has involved global political and economic confrontation between Russia and the U.S.-led West. Evidently, with the BRICS and major Global South countries having taken non-U.S., if not anti-U.S., stances, the War is rapidly transforming the already severely declined U.S. hegemony into an embryonic multipolar world order . It is now of great importance to comprehend the essential nature of the War from a macro-historical perspective on modern and contemporary international relations. Such an approach will likely enable going beyond conventional current event commentary, policy analysis, and regular IR/comparative analysis. This study is particularly interested in the Jewish question as a va...