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Welcome to The Hague in The Netherlands.

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The city of has provide itself as the world
capital for security,

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peace and justice as it is home to many international
organizations and European institutions.

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My name is Eline Chivot.

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I am originally from France,
but I have been living here for a few years.

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I am lucky to live and work in this beautiful
city as a policy analyst at The Hague Centre

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for Strategic Studies also known as HCSS.

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Our clients include international organizations,
businesses and governmental institutions.

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Many of them come to us with an idea or need
to investigate a topic and increase their

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knowledge and awareness of what is relevant
to them.

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Our job is then to figure out what matters
and to whom,

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what are the different elements surrounding
the issue,

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and what are the different ways to look at
it in order to formulate the best advice possible.

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One of the elements we are looking into is
the way European Welfare states compare with

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each other.

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To what extent are the different risks covered,
e.g., on employment or poverty?

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How are the different systems build to distribute
resources and to provide services?

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And how do they differ in terms of achievements
and outcomes,

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in particular, e.g., with respect to life
expectancy?

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As you can imagine,
this involves a broad diversity of actors

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as well as a broad diversity of perspectives
and objectives.

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You are now part of my research team as a
policy analyst using the techniques of the course.

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What are the different actors that you think
should be included in our analysis?

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What are their perspectives and their different
dilemmas?

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What are the different tensions that you could
think of?

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And then,
could you come up with a well-balanced set

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of criteria that you think we should include
in our analysis for the welfare states research project?

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Finally,
considering that the context would be that

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of economic crises and rising individualism
that threaten the sustainability of the welfare states,

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could you come up with a number of alternatives

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in your presentation of the findings.

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I would be very curious to see what you could come
up with to help me!