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Karolina Kluczewska, University of St Andrews   Executive summary This policy brief analyses how International Organisations (IOs) produce research in and on aid-receiving countries. Its key conclusion is that despite these actors’ claims to implement evidence-based projects, the research they produce and rely on is never neutral. Rather, institutional and operational features of IOs profoundly influence…

Aytan Gahramanova, Dublin City University Executive summary: This Policy paper raises concerns about the double facet of the new EU Resilience Paradigm that came to replace the Transitional Paradigm in the EU Global Strategy (EUGS).  It argues that the way EUGS accommodates the new Resilience Paradigm may prompt double standards in EU foreign policy and discourage…

Robert F. Chestnutt, School of Law & Government, Dublin City University robert.chestnutt2@mail.dcu.ie  1.0 Introduction This policy paper serves as a follow up to to a previous blog post1, which sought to estimate Russian President Vladimir Putin’s legacy by topic modelling a corpus of books where Mr Putin is either the central subject, or a major focus.…

Tatia Chikhladze, University of Bremen Executive summary In September 2016, after Islam Karimov’s death – who had been ruling the country since it obtained independence in 1991 – Uzbekistan faced a challenging period for the transfer of power. Many questions have been raised at the time on whether key members of the political elite would agree…