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The Hormuz Blockade: Winners, Losers, and Vulnerabilities

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Critical Minerals and the New Geopolitics of the Green Transition: Insights from Energy Talk 2026

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Do Election Results Shape Legitimacy Perceptions in Autocracy?

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Recognizing Unpaid Care: Family-Friendly Policies for Armenia

By Anna Hovhannisyan

Unpaid care work is a cornerstone of Armenia's care economy, sustaining families, supporting human development, and unde…

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Gender Gaps in Access to Startup Capital in Armenia

By Vahagn Grigoryan and Suren Karapetyan

This brief examines whether women in Armenia have less access to early-stage startup funding and what may explain that g…

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From AI Adoption to Productive Use: Building Organizational AI Capability in Latvia

By Laura Kalniņa , Signe Nīgale and Zane Varpina

Artificial intelligence is spreading rapidly across organizations, but access to AI tools does not automatically transla…

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On the Debate Around the Swedish “Reduktionsplikt”

By Pontus Larsson and Jakob Oberhammer

The Reduktionsplikt (engl. reduction duty) requires Swedish fuel suppliers to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of the…

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Health Literacy in Latvia: A Public Health Challenge Shaped by Socio-economic Inequality

By Mara Dzene , Agnes Lubloy and Zane Varpina

Latvia faces a serious health literacy challenge: many adults struggle to access, understand, evaluate, and apply health…

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Towards a Russian Internet?

By Violaine D’Ortona , Jonathan Lehne and Maiting Zhuang

The internet enables information and opinions to flow rapidly and at low cost, including across national borders. It all…

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