From migration-induced epidemics, to diseases being used to justify anti-immigrant rhetorics: mobility is a crucial element of the historical analysis around health crises. Bruno Tertrais, our Senior Fellow for Strategic Affairs, traces the past and weighs in on the present.

Germany might host nuclear weapons, but it feels deeply reluctant about them, or about being a part of a European debate on nuclear deterrence. Dr. Claudia Major, Head of the International Security Division of SWP, and Dr. Christian Mölling, Research Director of DGAP, share why.

There was a time when public health policy as we know it did not exist. When did governments start getting involved in the health of people and how did microbial outbreaks encourage that? Physician Jean-David Zeitoun answers the question in this last episode of Past the Virus. 

The economy of the Sahel is complex and the binary distinction between the formal and informal sector may have long become obsolete. Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Professor of economics at Cheikh Anta Diop University, examines why that’s crucial to understanding the region.

US-led geopolitics could make Greece a nuclear base again. Europe needs Greece in on its strategic autonomy just as much. Yvonni Efstathiou, Political Officer at the EU Delegation to the UAE, and Bill Kappis, lecturer at the University of Buckingham, explain where Athens stands.