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Best Of Think TanksAtlantic-community.org’s editorial team summarizes the best reports from the world’s most renowned think tanks. Saudi Arabia: Between Reform and Preserving PowerMai Yamani | Survival | March 2008The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has come to play a peculiar role on the Arabian Peninsula. This country has the largest petroleum resources in the world, is the home to the most important historic holy sites of Islam, and entertains good relations with ...More Global Capital Markets: The USA Stands its GroundDiana Farell et al. | The McKinsey Quarterly | February 2008The world financial markets' present bout of turbulences should not hide the long-term and often brighter trends: Despite occasional crises, global financial assets have expanded continuously over the last decades. In 2006 alone, global ...More India's Infrastructure: Chances and Risks for InvestmentsEric Heymann et al. | Deutsche Bank Research | February 2008India's infrastructure is obstructing economic growth. Just the terrible state of the roads and the endless traffic jams cause economic losses amounting to 6 billion US dollars per year. The cities in particular are struggling with ...More Lisbon Agenda: the EU Fails to Deliver on R&D PromisesBruno van Pottelsberghe | Bruegel | February 2008Europe is well on the way to fall short of the ambitiously formulated targets of the Lisbon Agenda of 2002. We remember: all EU member states wanted to increase R&D expenditure from an average 1,8% of GDP in the late 1990s to 3% of GDP by ...More Petrodollars Pose no Risk to the Global EconomyMcKinsey and Company | February 2008Investors outside the EU and the US are increasingly shaping trends in global financial markets. With the tripling of oil prices since 2002, petrodollar investors in particular have increasing influence and are in fact the fastest growing component of a ...More The World's Most Important Trilateral RelationshipMorton Abramowitz | Yale Global Online | January 2008Economic integration is currently shaping US-Chinese-Japanese relations. According to Abramowitz, only domestic politics or virulent nationalism “could disrupt what promises to be a positive new decade for great-power relations in East ...More The Consumers of the FutureMarcos Aguiar | Boston Consulting Group | January 2008The so called “next billion” consumers come from Brazil, China, India, Eastern Europe and even parts of Africa and Asia and represent the largest untapped consumer market in the world. The Boston Consulting Group estimates that these new consumers already spend ...More Time to Renew EU Trade Agreements with AfricaPaul Collier and Kalypso Nicolaϊdis | Open Democracy | January 2008The African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of states have enjoyed a privileged access to the European market and benefited from Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the EU since the 1960s. However, these trade agreements have now expired and ...More US Foreign Policy: Turmoil in the Middle EastMartin S. Indyk and Tamara Cofman Wittes | BrookingsThe US president is leaving a difficult political legacy behind him in the Middle East. The civil war in Iraq is still smoldering, there are threats of complete destabilization in Lebanon and the Gaza strip, and Iran’s plans for weapons of mass ...More Bush Bashers are Wrong About AsiaVictor D. Cha | Foreign AffairsThe subject of Asia has become a common source of criticism in US politics. Many Republicans want to see an end to cooperation with Peking because of China’s alleged attempt to displace the US in Asia, its defense budget, missile buildup, growing submarine ...More |
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