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Hassan Hakimian

Hassan Hakimian

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Hassan Hakimian, Director of the London Middle East Institute and Reader in Economics at SOAS, University of London, is a co-editor of Iran and the Global Economy: Petro Populism, Islam and Economic Sanctions.

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  1. Seven Fallacies of Economic Sanctions
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    Seven Fallacies of Economic Sanctions

    May 7, 2019 Hassan Hakimian thinks one reason such measures fail so often is that governments lack a compelling rationale for imposing them.

  2. Can Trump’s Sanctions Break Iran?
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    Can Trump’s Sanctions Break Iran?

    Sep 3, 2018 Hassan Hakimian asks what makes this round of restrictions any different from the many that came before.

  3. What’s Driving Iran’s Protests?
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    What’s Driving Iran’s Protests?

    Jan 6, 2018 Hassan Hakimian suggests that reformers have failed to manage rising economic expectations, particularly among young people.

  4. Iran’s Long Economic Journey
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    Iran’s Long Economic Journey

    May 24, 2017 Hassan Hakimian considers the economic challenges that await President Hassan Rouhani in his second term.

  5. Why Economists Missed the Arab Spring
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    Why Economists Missed the Arab Spring

    Mar 20, 2017 Hassan Hakimian criticizes conventional thinking about the relationship between political stability and prosperity.

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    Trump at the Gates

    Joschka Fischer urges Europeans to recognize that they are now on their own in an increasingly dangerous world.
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    The End of Progress?

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Though the United States has long led the world in advancing basic science and technology, it is hard to see how this can continue under President Donald Trump and the country’s ascendant oligarchy. America’s rejection of Enlightenment values will have dire consequences.

     predicts that Donald Trump’s second administration will be defined by its rejection of Enlightenment values.
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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Will the China hawks in Donald Trump’s administration railroad him into a confrontation that transcends tariffs and embraces financial sanctions of the type the US and the European Union imposed on Russia? If they do, China's leaders will have to decide whether to decouple from the dollar-based international monetary system.

     thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.
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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.

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