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India/Central Asia – India-Central Asia Relations: Issues and Prospects (D P Srivastava, VIF)

Despite close historical and cultural connection that India shared with Central Asian region, the bilateral relations have remained below the potential. The key reason...

Pakistan – Pakistan remains under the scrutiny of FATF (Aakriti Vinayak, VIF)

Amidst the changing regional and geopolitical dynamics, Pakistan remains mired in complexities and uncertainties. It continues to remain under the scrutiny of the terror-financing...

Japan – Japan’s Four-day Workweek Proposal Unlikely to Work (Rajaram Panda, VIF)

Japan and Japanese are known for their famously workaholic corporate culture. There are cases in which companies have forced employees to put extra hours,...

Spain – The climate and energy transition component of the Spanish National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Enrique Feás, Federico Steinberg, Elcano Royal Institute)

The authors analyse the aspects of Spain’s National Recovery Plan related to sustainability and ‘green’ investments. The climate and energy transition component of the Spanish...

Euro-Mediterranean Bonds – A moment to reflect: Creating Euro-Mediterranean bonds that deliver (Haizam Amirah-Fernández, Carmen Descamps and Eduard Soler i Lecha, CIDOB)

In times of the pandemic, humankind faces a global crisis. The Euro-Mediterranean area is no exception to this. Looking back at developments in the region only during...

Europe/NATO – Four ways Europeans can help refocus NATO (Marta Dassù, ECFR)

As the nature of global security shifts; as China rises; and with Joe Biden in the White House, it is time for Europeans to...

Education – How can education be the antidote to a world prone to fracture along environmental, social, and economic fault lines? (Christopher J. Thomas,...

Since 1960, the world’s population has more than doubled. Average life expectancy increased by 50 percent and income per person tripled. The share of people...

Natural Resources – Transnational governance of natural resources for the 21st century (Rabah Arezki, Brookings)

Natural resources—whether they are water, land, underground, or in the air—should be seen as common goods, meant to be shared by all. That means...

USA – Facebook’s FTC court win is a much-needed wake-up call for Congress (Mark MacCarthy, Brookings)

This week’s district court decision rejecting the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) antitrust complaint against Facebook might prove to be a Pyrrhic victory for the tech giant....

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