Tag: V-Dem
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Sharper, Harsher, Ineffective?
What Determines Whether Sanctions Against a Regime Are Likely to Succeed (With Interactive Sanctions Explorer – Try If Your Sanctions Would Have Worked!) When diplomacy fails, sanctions take center stage. Whether directed at Russia, Iran, or North Korea, economic pressure is widely regarded as the most powerful instrument available below the threshold of war. Politicians…
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Detecting the Pattern of Collapse
Is machine learning able to predict the downfall of societies? Throughout human history, great empires have repeatedly risen and fallen. The Maya, Rome, Byzantium. What makes these cases so fascinating is the question of how civilizations that achieved extraordinary levels of advancement could nevertheless fragment, collapse, or even disappear entirely. This topic has long been…
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