Yasemin Zeisl

Escalating political and military tensions between India and Pakistan over the disputed border region of Kashmir are testing the durability and international credibility of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a Eurasian organization of eight member states, including both India and Pakistan. India’s move to revoke ...

Globalization and digitalization have transformed corporate tax management, giving technology businesses the opportunity to artificially shift tax responsibilities to the low or zero tax jurisdictions of offshore tax havens like...

In June 2019, the Akademik Lomonosov received its operating license from the Russian government, becoming the world’s only active floating nuclear power plant. While the United States had worked on developing floating nuclear power plants as early as ...

In August 2019, Italy’s government collapsed after numerous policy disagreements had divided the ruling coalition between the Northern League (Lega) under Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini and the Five Star Movement (5S) under...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been ravaged by an Ebola virus outbreak since August 2018, when it first emerged in the country’s eastern border provinces of North-Kivu and Ituri. As of July 31, 2019, the World Health Organization reported that...

On August 10, 2019, an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 protesters backing the political opposition took to the streets in Russia’s capital Moscow after a series of demonstrations against the local government in July 2019. This mass demonstration was the largest since...

Following the lead of regional powers India and Pakistan, Bangladesh’s government aims to strengthen its digital economy by sanctioning the “Digital Bangladesh” initiative. This initiative falls under the comprehensive “Vision 2021” strategy, which ...

At present, electric batteries dominate the market for alternatively fueled vehicles. The comparatively slow success of cars running on hydrogen can be attributed to two issues that need to be resolved. These are ...

Energy in India is mostly generated from fossil fuels. As one of the world’s largest coal consumers, India is heavily reliant on the resource to supply the country of 1.4 billion people with energy. As climate change is increasingly

While seemingly plain, sand is one of the most coveted natural resources in the world. Rivaling the importance of water or natural oil and gas, sand is a valuable resource for construction that facilitates the growth of ...