Phantom Finance: A Review of Scholarly Literature on the Public Policy Impact of Blockchain-Based Digital Economies

As the internet continues to transform our modern world, new developments in distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) promise to revolutionize the monetary system as we know it. A leading example is the emergence of digital asset economies, which encourage users to buy and sell data secured on the blockchain as a form of commodified token. Yet […]

Is Aleksandr Lukashenko Untouchable? How Mounting Political Pressure Motivated Belarus’s Dictator President to Engineer a Migrant Crisis in the EU

On December 6th, 1991, Belarus and 14 other independent states emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Belarus hosted its first presidential election in 1994, where 39-year old Aleksandr Lukashenko won with 45.8% of the votes in the first round and 80.6% of the votes in the second round. The populist rose to fame […]

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