Much is happening across the Arab World. Only today, for instance, many of us woke up to learn that Lebanon’s erstwhile protagonists had drawn back from the precipice by concluding an agreement in Qatar that shuns war and toils for peace. In this article, therefore, I would like to focus ...
Read More »Arab world – Moving Forward in Uncertain Times!
Much is happening across the Arab World. Only today, for instance, many of us woke up to learn that Lebanon’s erstwhile protagonists had drawn back from the precipice by concluding an agreement in Qatar that shuns war and toils for peace. In this article, therefore, I would like to focus ...
Read More »GEAB N°32 (February 16, 2009) – Contents
{{4th quarter 2009 – Beginning of Phase 5 of the global systemic crisis: phase of global geopolitical dislocation}} Back in February 2006, LEAP/E2020 estimated that the global systemic crisis would unfold in 4 main structural phases: trigger, acceleration, impact and decanting phases. This process enabled us to properly anticipate events ...
Read More »Can a Shelf Agreement Anchor Israel’s Security Demands
{Israel’s position regarding its security demands, which entail undermining the sovereignty of a Palestinian state, narrows the chances for reaching an agreement.} {{Essence of Warning}} During negotiations with the Palestinians in 1999-2001, Israel presented a number of security demands that included, among other things, the demilitarization of the Palestinian state, ...
Read More »GEAB N°23 (March 15, 2008) – Contents
{{Global systemic crisis – End of 2008: Pension funds go off the rails }} By the end of 2008, a formidable debacle will affect pension funds all over the world, endangering the entire system of capital-based pensions. This financial calamity will bear a particularly dramatic human dimension because it will ...
Read More »GEAB N°22 (February 16, 2008) – Contents
{{Global systemic crisis / September 2008 – Phase of collapse of US real economy }} The end of the third quarter of 2008 will be marked by a new tipping point in the unfolding of the global systemic crisis. In the United States, this new tipping point will translate into ...
Read More »Value of international academic degrees: How to choose today an international degree that will still be worth something in ten to twenty years?
As LEAP/E2020 often unlined it since January 2006, the global systemic crisis affects all fields and sectors of contemporary human activity. It is in this sense that this crisis differs from a classical crisis limited to this or that sector/region. In this edition of the GlobalEurope Anticipation Bulletin, our team ...
Read More »GEAB N°21 (Januray 16, 2008) – Contents
{{2008: Full global impact phase of the Very Great US Depression}} From now to this summer in particular, the financial crisis triggered by the US subprime mortgage loans will turn into a much wider-ranging crisis involving the implosion of the Credit Default Swaps (CDS) market. This will represent a now ...
Read More »French president Nicolas Sarkozy faced to great difficulties at the end of 2007
{Last September 16th, in the 17th issue of the GEAB, LEAP/E2020 predicted a difficult end of the year for France’s brand new president} More contextually but not less significantly, the new French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s arrival into the European game is becoming a source of enduring tensions in the EU. ...
Read More »GEAB N°20 (December 16, 2007) – Contents
{{European real estate in 2008: Spain and UK deep into the crisis / Eastern Europe near housing bubble burst}} Before describing the situation in new EU member-states, let’s examine the evolution of two Western European markets which LEAP/E2020 predicted were about to decline, i.e. Spain and UK… (page 2) (Learn ...
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