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CIPE Partners with Duff & Phelps for Article and Events Series

CIPE in News | Andrew Wilson, Nicole Y. Lamb-Hale, Dr. Efraim Chalamish

CIPE is partnering with Duff & Phelps to offer insights on key issues that impact private enterprise and democratic development. This includes the recent launch of an event series on The Post Pandemic Future of ESG (environmental, social, and governance factors) investing. Watch part 1 here. B...

CIPE Africa’s Lars Benson and Hanna Wetters Interviewed for Addis Business Talk

CIPE in News | Lars Benson, Hanna Wetters

CIPE Regional Director for Africa Lars Benson and Program Officer for Africa Hanna Wetters join the online radio show Addis Business Talk to discuss CIPE’s work in East Africa, with a focus on its program in Ethiopia. ...

Term “Corrosive Capital” Used in Woodrow Wilson Center Webinar

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In a recent Woodrow Wilson Center webinar titled “Force Multipliers? U.S. and Taiwanese Interests in Latin America,” the CIPE-coined term ‘corrosive capital’ was used by Julie Chung, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. Chung also ...

Corrosive Capital Mentioned in a European Western Balkans Article

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CIPE’s concept of “corrosive capital” frames an opinion piece by Tena Prelec. Corrosive capital is not the whole story: Balkan political elites make use of foreign investments to further a narrative of themselves as ‘saviours’ of the nation. The problems of ‘corrosive capital...

Regional Director for Europe and Eurasia Quoted in BNE Intellinews on Moldova’s Foreign Policy

CIPE in News | Natalia Otel Belan

Read the full article here. “Russia is learning to mind its limitations; to repel residual nostalgia; and to think straight, putting issues before personalities, and staying focused on its own interests, leaving the empire farther and farther behind,” writes Trenin. This has certainly not alway...

CIPE partners, Ruslan Stefanov and Martin Vladimirov, Publish New Paper “Deals in the Dark: Russian Corrosive Capital in Latin America”

CIPE in News | Ruslan Stefanov, Martin Vladimirov

Full paper and information about the series can be found here. This paper is a part of the Sharp Power and Democratic Resilience series published by the International Forum for Democratic Studies and the National Endowment for Democracy. This report analyzes Russian strategic corruption efforts ...

Eric Hontz’s article featured in The National Interest: Xi Jinping Is Using Economic Games to Endanger America’s National Security

CIPE in News | Eric Hontz

Xi’s new economy is not the Chinese economy of the 2008 summer Olympics, with fast growth and some room for differences of opinion on policy. The CCP has become the platform and it is pay-to-play. Read full article here. ...

Eric Hontz on Mujahid Talks – Is China Communist or Capitalist?

CIPE in News | Eric Hontz

Eric Hontz, CIPE’s Deputy Regional Director for Europe and Eurasia, was recently interviewed on Muslim TV Network’s talk show Mujahid Talks, on the subject of “Is China Communist or Capitalist?” Watch the full panel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbAm6aLHYS8 ...

WEF Article by Chandler Foundation CEO Mentions CIPE

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Trust is the glue of a healthy society. Here’s how to bring it back Chandler Foundation’s CEO Tim Hanstad recently published a piece on the World Economic Forum (WEF) that cites CIPE as an organization that works with governments to build the necessary systems and structures for a fair ...

Corrosive Capital and Serbian Mining

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On December 17, BBC news published an article covering CIPE and the Center for Contemporary Politics’ research into Chinese copper mining investment in eastern Serbia. Through analysis of the agreement between the Serbian government and the Chinese Zijin Mining Group, CIPE and its partner found Z...