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NIGERIA – Radical social change in Nigeria beyond #EndSARS (Doris Okenwa, Al Jazeera)

2020 is the year we wish we could erase from memory and, if possible, imagine it never happened. But it did happen and some...

MATCHMAKING ECONOMICS – Regulation in the era of matchmaking economics (Maria Demertzis, Bruegel)

New approaches and new tools are needed to prevent excessive concentration of economic power in the hands of a few matchmaking digital platforms that...

EUROPE/CHINA – Europe’s disappointing investment deal with China (Alicia Garcia-Herrero, Bruegel)

After more than seven years of negotiations, the European Union and China appear to have reached a deal for their Comprehensive Agreement on Investment...

ISRAEL – Rising Temperatures, Rising Risks: Climate Change and Israel’s National Security (Shira Efron, INSS)

The Middle East is one of the regions most vulnerable to climate change, including rising temperatures, water and consequently food shortages, rising sea levels,...

HAMAS/PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY/ISRAEL – After Political Partition Between the PA and Hamas’s Gaza, Now Economic Boycott (Hillel Frisch, BESA Center)

Israel has been increasingly successful at confronting its foes one on one. The Palestinians have not operated against Israel as a united force since...

USA – The Swamp Returns to Washington (Alex Joffe, BESA Center)

The incoming Biden administration has begun to appoint personnel and articulate policies, both directly and through the extended voice of the foreign policy establishment...

SAUDI ARABIA/MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD – Saudi Arabia vs. the Muslim Brotherhood (Mordechai Kedar, BESA Center)

A dispute over the role of religion in government constitutes the main rift in the world of Sunni Islam. This controversy also defines the...

USA – Is America’s Fourth Estate in Foreclosure? (Jiri and Leni Valenta, BESA Center)

The modern American usage of the term “fourth estate” refers to the press as a free power, and even as a watchdog over the executive, legislative,...

TURKEY – Turkey’s Slow-Motion Economic Crisis (Selva Demiralp, Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Project-Syndicate)

Banks cannot engineer a balance between exchange rates and interest rates in a country with free capital flows, where banks’ funding conditions are affected...

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