Surveillance Report Economic and Financial Affairs ISSN 2443-8014 (online) Greece, February 2019

https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/economy-finance/ip099_en.pdf

Mapping Social Imbalances in the EU | Bertelsmann Stiftung

Getting to grips with social conditions across the EU Yet, when we start digging deeper to understand how Europeans are experiencing the social and economic progress that the headline figures suggest, the picture blurs. There are great differences in social conditions across EU countries and regions, and the global economic and financial crisis, which led to a double-dip recession in the EU between 2008 and 2013, has in many areas added to the disparities within and between European societies. These ruptures in the social fabric across Europe beco ...

Chris Dillow's "Favourite Economics Papers"

Highly recommended

"Some of you might notice conflicts between these papers. For example... This, though, merely highlights a fact about the social sciences – that what’s true in some contexts isn’t true in others, that there are very few generally true theories. As Niels Bohr said: “the opposite of a great truth is another great truth.”

Our Increasingly Fascist Public Discourse | Project Syndicate

Though “fascism” generally evokes images of jack-booted thugs and mass rallies, fascist movements first politicize language. And, judging by the arguments and vocabulary now regularly used by mainstream politicians and thinkers in the US and Europe, their strategy is bearing fruit.

Jason Stanley, Professor of Philosophy at Yale University 

Diplomacy and Domestic Politics: The Logic of Two-Level Games | Robert D. Putnam

International Organization, Vol. 42, No. 3. (Summer, 1988)

Domestic politics and international relations are often somehow entangled, but our thkories have not yet sorted out the puzzling tangle. It is fruitless to debate whether domestic politics really determine international relations, or the reverse. The answer to that question is clearly "Both, sometimes." The more interesting questions are "When?" and "How?" This article offers a theoretical approach to this issue, but I begin with a story that illustrates the puzzle.  

the new geopolitics of the middle east | Brookings

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/FP_20190107_new_geopolitics_of_mena_final.pdf

World Happiness Report 2018

Edited by John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey D. Sachs

The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness. The World Happiness Report 2018, ranks 156 countries by their happiness levels, and 117 countries by the happiness of their immigrants.