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.

COVID-19 is a dangerous and deadly disease. Economists Peter Hansen and David Levine argue that stopping or delaying vaccination with the AstraZeneca and J&J vaccines out of an “abundance of caution” is not worth the risk.

A logical shortcut that is natural to humans becomes dangerous when it is a feature of artificial intelligence (AI). EUI Researcher Francisco de Abreu Duarte illustrates how algorithms can ‘scale’ normative choices that society no longer supports.

EUI Professor of History Alexander Etkind and Rutgers University Sociologist Sergei Erofeev focus on Russian democratic leader Alexei Navalny, urging readers to recognise his efforts in the fight against corruption in Russia, and entreating Amnesty International to reinstate the man’s status as a ‘prisoner of conscience’.

Globalisation, and particularly global trade, produces clear winners and losers. EUI visiting fellow and political economist Aydin Yildirim and his co-authors examine the national labour market structures that do best in mitigating unequal returns on global trade.

Trade measures meant to reduce emissions may be admirable, but can have uneven consequences for the countries to which they are applied. STG Policy Leader Fellow Gideon Sarpong lays out what he considers would be a fair EU carbon tax policy for developing countries.

On 19 March, two days after the death of President John Pombe Magufuli, Samia Suluhu Hassan was sworn in as Tanzania’s Head of State. STG Fellow Ibrahim Magara reflects on the transition, suggesting it reaffirms the country’s capacity for religious tolerance and the progress attained by women in African politics.