This policy paper explores the role and value of ‘digital minilateralism’. Minilaterals are small, trust-based, knowledge creating and sharing, innovation-oriented networks. Digital minilateralism describes those minilateral networks both committed to digital governance and using ‘digital’ culture, practices, processes and technologies as tools to advance peer learning, support and cooperation between governments.

In addition to understanding the nature of vaccination and treatment in shaping the course of the coronavirus epidemic, this paper also aims to clarify the role of population (or herd) immunity in formulating optimal treatment and vaccination policy.

This paper offers projections of future transmission dynamics for SARS-CoV-2 in an SEIRS model in which immunity is waning over time. The authors argue that research that relies significantly on the emergence of permanent immunity for individuals (and thus eventual herd immunity in the population) may give incomplete policy recommendations for how to navigate the...

Policymakers concerned about the slowdown in productivity growth since the mid-2000s should consider the role of trust or social capital.

Research into policy and policy failures tends to focus on analysis rather than implementation and enforcement. The Bennett Institute recently hosted a workshop to bring together people from different domains of safety practice and research backgrounds to discuss the challenge. This report details those discussions.