The Quiet Colossus
The first decade of the 21st century heralded an era of challenge among the actual and wannabe superpowers girdling the […]
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Russia and the EU
The European Union is currently an uneasy one. Evolving from the European Coal & Steel Community (ECSC) in 1951, signing […]
How the West will meet and ultimately accommodate the BRICS challenge
The awesome emergence of the BRICS union, comprising nations representing 4 major engines of global economic growth, backed by half […]
Russia’s role in the BRICS union
The BRICS union – comprising Brazil, Russia, India and China (with South Africa tagging along) – was partly the brainchild […]
Myanmar / Burma 2013
In March I was able to spend some time in the remote and mysterious land of Burma, the last major […]
Normal is crazy enough: four things you need to know about doing business with the Dutch
On April 30 or ‘Queen’s day’, Queen Beatrix abdicated in favour of her son Willem-Alexander. And although the entire nation […]
Brave Cypriots tackle financial crisis head on; but what does the future hold for them?
I have been working in the world of global professional education for the past seven years, developing new markets to […]
Blossoming Russia
From the 20-25 January 2013 I visited the city of St. Petersburg, giving lectures in two prominent academic institutions – […]
Monochromatic and Polychromatic Cultures
There are several hundred well-documented cultures in the world, most of them belonging to major nation-states – France, Germany, Russia, […]
Civil War in Spain? Catalunya pulls back from the brink
On 11 September 2012 over a million people took to the streets of Barcelona in a huge demonstration in favour […]