Gulf monarchies' role in the new MENA region

Talbot, Valeria

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“…In this regard, Schomaker et al ( 2021 ) argued that the EU's reaction in the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic was based on centralized and decentralized decisions, and it was characterized by formal initiatives and informal actions given the EU has not developed a transboundary crisis management capacity, so far (Townend et al, 2020 ). On the other hand, the spread of COVID‐19 has not spared the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), all of which are, to varying degrees and according to their means, engaged in the fight against the new, common enemy (Talbot, 2020 ). The Gulf countries, according to a March 2020 WHO preparedness assessment, have a sustainable capacity to respond to the coronavirus crisis due to the substantial investments in infrastructure and personnel that they have undertaken over the past 25 years (OCDE, 2020 ).…”

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Dynamic governance of the first wave of Covid‐19 in Tunisia: An interoperability analysis

Nasri

Boubaker

Dhaouadi

2022

World Med & Health Policy

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This study proposes an interoperability index of the measures taken by the Tunisian government during the first wave of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic. In the first part, we present the process of decision making as a revised and adjusted process in continuous upgrading, based on the dynamic governance process in times of crisis. In the second part, we estimate an index that records the strictness of government policies in each subperiod and the degree of interoperability between the Tunisian pandemic responses against COVID‐19 using subperiod instantiations. Our empirical findings show that the pandemic management strategy in Tunisia during the first wave was adjusted by incorporating new pandemic policies and changing the stringency levels over time. After estimating the interoperability index, we found that the measures taken early in a subperiod interact directly with the next successive subperiod in the decision process, but they interact indirectly with other successive subperiods.

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