C. Bommer, A. Dreher & M. Prez-Alvarez, Vox EU
International humanitarian aid plays an important role in the response to natural disasters. This column argues that political motives play a role in the allocation of aid. Focusing on the allocation of US humanitarian assistance, it shows that disasters that affect the birth regions of leaders of recipient countries receive substantially more funding than other comparable disasters. This suggests that there is a home bias' in humanitarian aid.
Emma Graham-Harrison & Juliette Garside, Guardian
Documents confirm operational details of largest mass incarceration of an ethnic-religious minority since second world war
Ren Wildangel & Tarek Megerisi, ECFR
Although Germany's mediation role in the Libyan conflict has received relatively little attention so far, this might change if its initiative leads to a peace conference or, alternatively, a collapse of the political process.
Reuters
Four months before a swarm of drones and missiles crippled the world??s biggest o...
Samuel Bendett, Defense One
Handicaps: weak private sector, Soviet-style bureaucracy. Helps: Great STEM education ?? and history.
