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(USA/Israel) Why Did Biden Finally Call Netanyahu? (The National Interest)

Dov S. Zakheim The White House insists that Biden’s delay in phoning Netanyahu was not a deliberate snub. https://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-did-biden-finally-call-netanyahu-178473

(USA/Geography of Innovation) The geography of innovation between 1866 and today (VOXEU)

Mike Andrews, Alexander Whalley We have witnessed significant changes in economic geography over the last years. However, little is known about the spatial concentration of...

(Refugees) Refugees and responsibility-sharing: An emerging trend in the face of record numbers of forcibly displaced people (VOXEU)

Xavier Devictor, Quy-Toan Do, Andrei Levchenko It is usually observed that countries neighbouring a conflict area end up accommodating the largest numbers of refugees often...

(USA/Pandemic/Presidential Elections) Pandemics swing elections, but not as much as you think (VOXEU)

Leticia Abad , Noel Maurer While the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to have affected the 2020 US presidential elections, it had remarkably little effect on the...

(Europe/Pandemic/Fiscal Plans) Fiscal plans in Europe: No divergence but no coordination (VOXEU)

Vincent Aussilloux, Adam Baïz, Matthieu Garrigue, Philippe Martin, Dimitris Mavridis The Covid-19 crisis has presented policymakers across the euro area with an unprecedented challenge, not...

(Europe/Pandemic/Public Debt) Public debt and the pandemic in the European Union (ELIAMEP)

Dimitris Katsikas, Apostolos Fasianos The Covid-19 crisis has left the European Union facing the deepest recession in its history. https://www.eliamep.gr/en/publication/in-focus-%ce%b4%ce%b7%ce%bc%cf%8c%cf%83%ce%b9%ce%bf-%cf%87%cf%81%ce%ad%ce%bf%cf%82-%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%b9-%cf%80%ce%b1%ce%bd%ce%b4%ce%b7%ce%bc%ce%af%ce%b1-%cf%83%cf%84%ce%b7%ce%bd-%ce%b5%cf%85%cf%81/

(Belarus) Belarus dictator Lukashenka seeks to silence the media (Atlantic Council)

Vladislav Davidzon A Minsk court sentenced journalists Katsiaryna Andreyeva and Darya Chultsovato two years in prison on February 18 in a case that highlights the...

(USA/National Defense Strategy/Emerging Technologies) How the next National Defense Strategy can get serious about emerging technologies (Atlantic Council)

Justin Sherman, Evanna Hu In December, physicists at Hefei’s University of Science and Technology of China published a paper in Science with huge national-security implications. They claimed, as the journal Nature put...

(USA/Canada/Nuclear Energy) How a HALEU bank could work (Atlantic Council)

Stephen S. Greene Advanced nuclear power generation technologies that focus on modular construction, factory fabrication, shorter construction times, and passive safety could work in concert...

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