Policy Leader Fellows Diana Rusu and Nikhil Dubey walk readers through the process of innovation, suggesting some take-aways from a recent roundtable on the concept.

The EU’s capacity to coalesce into a single geopolitical actor is limited on many fronts. However, as Jan Lepeu explains, sanctions have become an effective foreign policy instrument which, beyond serving explicit objectives, also contribute to the European Union’s international standing.

What does peace look like? In their edited volume Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South Sudan: The Comprehensive Peace Agreement and Beyond, Sarah M.H. Nouwen and Sharath Srinivasan look at conflict in the two Sudans to demonstrate how the claim to ‘success’ in peacemaking initiatives is actually fraught and contested at multiple levels.

In this article, Policy Leader Fellow Gideon Sarpong encourages West African states to mainstream blue carbon into all policymaking on climate and the environment, including their goals for the Paris Accord.

Policy Leader Fellow Ibrahim Magara walks readers through the security crisis in Somalia, where the terrorist group Al Shabaab adds greater instability to the factious political scenario.

In this article, SPS researcher Elena Pisanelli illustrates the flawed approach to artificial intelligence, where we are training the innovative tool at our disposal to codify and legitimate systemic biases rooted in the past.

What intentions does China have with its investments in the Western Balkans, and to what degree should the EU get involved? Policy Leader Fellow Michael Charokopos takes a look, and draws conclusions on how the EU might facilitate better outcomes for all involved.

Understanding, let alone regulating, a novel technology like artificial intelligence is a challenge for policy-makers. EUI Researcher Anthony Rosborough reveals the powerful influence fiction and myth can have on legal thinking and asks where we should draw the line.

For Law researcher Théo Fournier, France’s pragmatic support for the self-declared interim government in Chad might serve in the short-term, but could easily backfire without a quick transition to a democratically elected leader.

STG Policy Leader Fellow Gideon Sarpong proposes a transformative path to climate finance in emerging markets and developing countries, hit especially hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.