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(Humans, Machines, Nuclear) Will humans and/or machines save us from nuclear doomsday ? (Michal Onderco, Madeline Zutt, Clingendael)

The idea of a human outside the loop of nuclear decision-making may appear to be far-fetched. Yet, this is exactly the idea behind numerous...

(European Corporations) Are European listed corporations short-termist? (Karel Lannoo, Jesper Lau Hansen, Apostolos Thomadakis, CEPS)

https://www.ceps.eu/ceps-publications/are-european-listed-corporations-short-termist/

(Qatar) Qatar Crisis: A Beginning to the End? (Sanam Vakil, Chatham House)

5 January 2021 marked the formal beginning of the end of the three-and-a-half-year Qatar crisis. GCC leaders, including the Qatari Emir Tamim and Saudi...

(Russia) Russia’s Space Policy: The Path of Decline? (Florian Vidal, IFRI)

With the advent of New Space, Russia is engaged in a race against time to preserve one of its major industrial assets. Russia’s Space Policy:...

(British Army) British Army heavy division comes up light (Ben Barry, IISS)

The British Army will be capable of fielding a war-fighting division by 2025. However, it will be smaller, less ‘heavy’ and have less modern...

(Productivity/MICROPROD) The productivity paradox: policy lessons from MICROPROD (Grégory Clayes and Maria Demertzis, Bruegel)

The objective of MICROPROD, an EU-wide research project that runs until the end of 2021, is to understand what is driving the current productivity...

(Corporate insolvencies) Corporate insolvencies during COVID-19: keeping calm before the storm (Grégory Clayes, Mia Hoffmann and Guntram B. Wolff, Bruegel)

Measures in major economies have protected companies from COVID-19 related insolvency, but have also protected weak firms. Nevertheless, support should remain as long as...

(USA/Taiwan/China) ‘A cudgel against Beijing’: US ambassador to UN to visit Taiwan (Erin Hale, Al Jazeera)

It began with a surprise phone call and will end with a surprise trip, but the Trump Administration’s close relationship with Taiwan will reach...

(USA) What happens after the Trump-inspired storming of Congress? (Al Jazeera)

On January 6, 2021 – a day that will be marked in the history books – supporters of Donald Trump stormed the United States...

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