Author / Zubin Rekhi
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The West’s Failure to Court The Global South
Zubin Rekhi This is not the 19th century anymore: Europe’s wars aren’t the world’s wars. America no longer holds enough sway to just snap its fingers and expect the rest of the world to do its bidding. On September 20, 2022, French President Emmanuel Macron took the podium at the United Nations General Assembly with…
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It’s 1973 Again: A Resurgent Middle East
To say that this has been a good year for the Middle East would be an understatement. If just 10 years ago, you had predicted that out of all regions in the world, the Gulf states would be resurgent in the midst of two unprecedented global crises, people would have thought you were joking. Saudi…
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Beware the Danger of Economic Decoupling
In June of this year, Apple announced that they would move part of their production of iPads out of China for the first time. At the end of the day, it wasn’t worker suicides and reports of abuse that caused Apple to question its commitment to China, nor was it concern that impeding censorship would…