Time of Crisis, Time for Think Tanks
Time of Crisis, Time for Think Tanks

Author(s): Strahinja Subotić
Subject(s): Politics, Security and defense, Politics and society, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Centar za evropske politike CEP
Keywords: COVID-19; policy; health; security; think tanks; crisis; Balkans;
Summary/Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has caught the world unprepared, think tanks included. Besides producing evidence-based analyses of the current events, think tanks utilize their expertise and experience to foresee potential challenges that lie ahead. Yet, this crisis has proven that even think tanks, a beacon of forward-looking thinking, have failed to anticipate the outbreak of the pandemic, as well as the immediate magnitude of its consequences. Such observation, which brings to light the existing deficiencies of think tanks, should be viewed in the light of self-evaluation, with the greater purpose to usher the path for their further improvement and evolution. Self-awareness and self-improvement of this kind become all the more important considering that the democratic norms continue to erode under the pressure of political, economic, and social impact of the pandemic.

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