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In September 2015, the Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research (NIHP) organized a workshop to address the hopes and challenges of Big Data in healthcare in the Israeli context. The paper provides an overview of the challenges and hopes raised by data driven science and Big Data, along with a summary of Israel's strengths and weaknesses regarding Big Data, as discussed by the speakers in the course of the conference. It concludes with some hints on how Israel's advantages in this field might be leveraged.

AbstractHow does one explain the variation in the EU's success in enacting and enforcing policies that lead to the supply of regional or global public goods? We examine how the EU deploys its positional resources to enact laws that compel governments or firms to contribute to the provision of public goods. We suggest that leaders such as the EU are able to compel public goods contributions if they have the legal authority to do so, and are able to deploy their positional resources to build effective coalitions or reduce the leverage of potential veto players. We look at two issue areas empirically: banking and the environment. In the banking cases, the EU sought to provide regional public goods; in the environmental cases, it sought to provide regional and global public goods. We examine instances of leadership success as well as failure. In the banking cases, we examine Outright Monetary Transactions (success) and banking single resolution mechanism (less successful); the environmental cases pertain to chemical regulation (success) and airline emissions (failure). These cases reveal the EU's skill and limitations in deploying its positional authority to induce contributions for public goods provision from EU member governments, EU firms and nonEU firms.

Este artículo pretende introducir la teoría mimética de René Girard en el ámbito de los estudios internacionales, identificando algunos de los ámbitos de investigación que podría abrir de forma útil. En primer lugar, el artículo explora la teoría mimética y algunos de sus conceptos básicos -el deseo mimético, la rivalidad mimética, el mecanismo del chivo expiatorio y la crisis del sacrificio- con el fin de destacar el gran potencial heurístico y analítico de la obra de Girard. En segundo lugar, el artículo considera la contribución de Girard a la luz de las teorías contemporáneas de las Relaciones Internacionales para demostrar su valor añadido. ; peer-reviewed ; 22 p.