Many countries hit by the pandemic are now exiting or about to exit the period of most stringent isolation measures. Indeed, they estimate they succeeded in controlling contagion. Meanwhile, they avoided the dreaded break down of their health-care system, which could have taken place if hospitals had been overwhelmed. In Europe, one country stands apart, …
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This is the 23 April 2020 issue of our weekly scan for political and geopolitical risks (open access). Editorial: The COVID-19 has already deeply reshaped the world. Imagine the headlines and the social networks buzz on the oil prices amazing rout, if we were not in a time of pandemic! It would certainly not be …
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What is “great powers competition” in a time of global confinement? As we write this article, half of the human species is or has been confined in homes or apartments, in cities and slums. In China, for example, confinement is a massive political and social undertaking. All around the world hundreds of millions of people …
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This is the 16 April 2020 issue of our weekly scan for political and geopolitical risks (open access). Again, a very large part is devoted to the COVID-19, as the pandemic is reshaping the world. Using horizon scanning, each week, we collect weak – and less weak – signals. These point to new, emerging, escalating …
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This is the 9 April 2020 issue of our weekly scan for political and geopolitical risks (open access). Again, a very large part is devoted to the COVID-19. Read the scan below, after the editorial, quite long this week. Editorial First, this week’s scan features the excellent article “Stretching the International Order to Its Breaking …
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One of the critical and key uncertainty about the COVID-19, among so many, is the immunity a patient may have after recovery from the COVID-19. In other words, can someone who recovered from the COVID-19 catch the disease again and infect other people again? As long as we have neither vaccine nor fully efficient antiviral …
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This is the 2 April 2020 issue of our weekly scan for political and geopolitical risks (open access). Again, a very large part is devoted to the COVID-19. Read the scan below. Using horizon scanning, each week, we collect weak – and less weak – signals. These point to new, emerging, escalating or stabilising problems. …
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(Credit Image: ESO/P. Horálek) As the Covid-19 spreads, it also invades all thoughts and permeates most issues and actions. As a result, we kept the section on the COVID-19 pandemic for articles truly specific to the pandemic, such as confinement or possible second wave of outbreak, as well as for the struggle against related rumours. …
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(Credit Image: ESO/P. Horálek) Editorial – “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.” Winston Churchill, May 1940. Most signals of the scan are unsurprisingly related to the COVID-19 pandemic. As started being obvious last week, the pandemic has now spread to all sectors. Domestic and external tensions rise around and with the COVID-19. We …
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