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(India) Boosting India with maritime domain awareness (Abhijit Singh, ORF)

The legendary military theorist, Sun Tzu, is once said to have observed that the critical element in battle was foreknowledge, but that it “could...

(Brexit) Did you have a merry Brexmas ? (Tim Oliver, Clingendael)

The build-up to Brexit has at times felt like opening the daily door on an underwhelming four and a half year advent calendar. When...

(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...

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