Written by Marcin Grajewski
As the second wave of the coronavirus passes, new infections and the death rate are currently both in decline globally. At the same time, countries across the world have begun vaccination programmes.
In parallel, fears that the impact of the disease will continue, as some new, highly contagious mutations of the virus have spread, have lead governments to adopt additional preventive border restrictions and lockdowns.
Among many debates on the subject, two stand out – the slower vaccination rate in the EU compared to the UK and US, and the imbalance between rich and poor countries in the availability of vaccines, with a third debate, on vaccination passports, emerging rapidly.
This note offers links to recent commentaries, studies and reports from international think tanks on the pandemic and related issues. A previous item from this series on the coronavirus was published in earlier in February 2021.
Vaccines: How to use market-based incentives to ramp up production
Centre for European Policy Studies, February 2021
Why the EU’s vaccine strategy will pay off in the end
Carnegie Europe, February 2021
Will Covid accelerate productivity growth?
Bruegel, February 2021
Why has the EU been so slow to roll out a Covid vaccination programme?
Bruegel, January 2021
A global pandemic alarm bell
Bruegel, January 2021
What do vaccination passports mean for Europe?
Bruegel, January 2021
Résilience: La nouvelle boussole
Bruegel, January 2021
Corporate insolvencies during Covid-19: Keeping calm before the storm
Bruegel, January 2021
Lessons from the battleground: EU strategic autonomy after the ‘vaccine wars’
European Policy Centre, February 2021
Why the Covid-19 crisis calls for a revamped Better Regulation agenda
European Policy Centre, February 2021
Will corporate debt choke the post-Covid-19 recovery?
European Policy Centre, January 2021
Europe’s post-pandemic strategy for the WHO
European Council on Foreign Relations, February 2021
The EU’s misguided export regulation on vaccines
European Council on Foreign Relations, February 2021
All the rage: The pandemic’s emotional politics
European Council on Foreign Relations, February 2021
The geopolitics of Covid vaccines in Europe’s eastern neighbourhood
European Council on Foreign Relations, January 2021
Corona pandemic shows that many states are poorly prepared
Bertelsmann Stiftung, January 2021
With European unity and empathy against Covid-19
Bertelsmann Stiftung, December 2020
L’impact de la Covid-19 sur le monde du travail
Confrontations Europe, January 2021
How Greece can recover from Covid
Centre for European Reform, February 2021
Ditchley conference report: Covid-19, the global economy and the return of power politics
Centre for European Reform, January 2021
Prioritizing equity after Covid-19
Chatham House, February 2021
The dysfunctional vaccine rollout is creating even more opportunities for cybercriminals
Council on Foreign Relations, February 2021
A guide to global Covid-19 vaccine efforts
Council on Foreign Relations, February 2021
Covid-19 death rate rising in Africa
Council on Foreign Relations, January 2021
What does the World Health Organization do?
Council on Foreign Relations, January 2021
How the Chinese state mobilized civil society to fight Covid-19
Brookings Institution, February 2021
How Covid-era innovation can build more equitable education systems
Brookings Institution, February 2021
Covid-19: Quels impacts sur le climat?
Institut des relations internationales et stratégiques, February 2021
Les relations Europe-Afrique à l’aune de la pandémie de Covid-19: État des lieux et perspectives
Fondation Robert Schuman, February 2021
What the vaccine row tells us about the Commission’s worth
Friends of Europe, February 2021
Adapt or perish: Lessons from the pandemic
Friends of Europe, February 2021
Covid-19: How can we get it under control in 2021?
Friends of Europe, February 2021
La crise Covid, le transport stratégique et ses perspectives européennes
Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, February 2021
Covid-19: Comment faire face à la peur vaccinale?
Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, December 2020
Saving the red-eye to Ibiza: How vaccine corridors can open up travel again
Foreign Policy Centre, February 2021
Pandemie, Regierungskrise und Wahlkampfauftakt in den Niederlanden
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, February 2021
Political risk: Germany pledges to speed up vaccinations
Polish Institute of International Affairs, February 2021
An abrupt awakening to the realities of a pandemic: Learning lessons from the onset of Covid-19 in the EU and Finland
Finnish Institute of International Affairs, January 2021
Reforming multilateralism in post-COVID times: For a more regionalised, binding and legitimate United Nations
Instituto Affari Internationali, January 2021
The Post-Covid-19 trajectory for Algeria, Morocco and the Western Sahara
Instituto Affari Internationali, January 2021
Learning from Covid-19: Implications for the EU response to human smuggling
Instituto Affari Internationali, December 2020
How Covid-19 changed the future
European Union Institute for Security Studies, December 2020
Les européens devant l’hésitation vaccinale
Institut Jacques Delors, December 2020
Covid-19 pandemic: Insights from Rand
Rand Corporation, February 2021
An evaluation of the Turkish economy during Covid-19
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, January 2021
Impact and potential consequences of Covid-19: Global and European considerations
Economic Policy Institute, January 2021.
Read this briefing on ‘Coronavirus: Vaccination debates‘ in the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.
Source: Coronavirus: Vaccination debates [What Think Tanks are thinking]