Irakli Gruzin

The author is from Tbilisi, Georgia. He is studying international affairs at Georgetown University.

As Oil Reserves Decrease, the GCC States Look to Urgently Diversify Their Economies

The market for natural resources is utterly fragile and unpredictable. Thus, depending solely on the exportation of oil was foundationally seen as unsustainable by...

Georgia: Europe’s Trump Card to the Black Sea

To put it quite simply, even though it's a small state by the ever traditional definitions from both the qualitative and the quantitative perspectives,...

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