Epidemiologists use mathematical models to predict epidemic trends, and these results are inherently uncertain when parameters are unknown or changing. In other contexts, such as climate, modellers use multi-model ensembles to inform their decision-making: when forecast...

Published on March 25th, 2020 For us, Italian residents, the coronavirus crisis came as a tsunami. We heard the earthquake from afar, we witnessed the sea slowly retract, but it was only when the waves struck that we realized it was here. For the Italian government, the...

Published in March 2020 Source: Global Transnational Mobility Dataset (GTMD), MPC/EUI and Johns Hopkins University, CSSE. Both axes in the figure are log-transformed. Does travel from China help predict the number of Covid19 cases in other countries? We can address this...

Published on 17.03.2020 Do the current disruptions to human movement reverse or rather further reinforce inequalities? Between February and March 2020, many people accustomed to being highly mobile witnessed a massive curtailing of their right to travel both across and ...

Published on March 27, 2020 Moments of surprise can expose deep uncertainties and even ignorance. They also uncover issues of contested politics, unequal social relations and the capacities of states and citizens. The unfolding coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is one suc...

Published online 31.03.2020 Sozialstaatslücken werden sichtbar, Härtefonds sind eine willkommene Notlösung. Die Debatte steht in vielen EU-Ländern an.

Published on 27 March 2020 ‘Extremism’ must not be cast as an epidemic. But we can learn relevant lessons from the problems created in countering it. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, under the GR...

Published on March 20th, 2020 COVID-19 is putting unprecedented pressure on European healthcare systems: this crisis should prompt a rethink of the direction of healthcare policies across Europe, and the principle of solidarity must now move to the forefront as countrie...

Pre-print version attached to this record: Forthcoming on the web page http://blog.juspoliticum.com/ À la différence de la France qui a adopté un cadre législatif en réaction à la crise du coronavirus, l’Italie était dotée d’un cadre législatif précis lui permettant d’a...

Originally Published: 16 Mar 2020 We track the closure of the borders that governments implemented to contain the spread of COVID-19.