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The Gulf’s Post-OPEC Order

BRAZZAVILLE/DOHA—The United Arab Emirates’ decision to leave OPEC and OPEC+ after nearly six decades of membership has dealt a major structural blow to the cartel. Losing its third-largest producer—capable of pumping nearly five million barrels a day, with ambitions to expand further—will make it increasingly difficult for the bloc to perform

Iran Is Pressing Its Strategic Advantage

Iran is looking for an option that both costs its adversary and generates revenue for itself. Unable to match America’s

The Global Water Cycle Is Critical Infrastructure

As we look toward a more uncertain, insecure water future, it is incumbent on governments and financial institutions to ensure

AI’s Shadow Global Governance

WASHINGTON, DC—In The Three-Arched Bridge, the novelist Ismail Kadare tells the story of a bridge being built in medieval Arbëria (modern-day Albania,

RSP’s technocratic turn challenges Nepal’s old political order

Critics might still say that we need an ideology, but they are missing the point. Maybe the goal is not

Europe Is Losing the Energy-Security Battle to China

Europe still has time to catch up. But unless it matches its regulatory ambition with sustained investment, it will remain

Enablers and barriers to payment system promotion in Nepal

Binod Bajagain Kathmandu, May 3: “Payment system” means a system for the payment, clearing or settlement of any type of

Facilitation of investment for industrial growth

Purushottam Ojha Kathmandu, April 30: Mechanization of industries was started during the second half of eighteenth century which was the

Why Nepal’s development, good governance falls short

Good governance is not a new lexicon in our polity. This term has come into the centre of debate of

China’s whole-process people’s democracy

We look forward to strengthening exchange of experience in party governance and state administration with political parties and friends from