Research tool · Work in progress
The think tank landscape covering Africa-Europe relations is substantial — but how much of it actually speaks to the needs of business? Meridian17 is building a systematic map of what leading policy think tanks publish, and how far their output engages with the themes that matter most for Africa-Europe trade, investment, and economic partnership.
We are starting with six institutions: ECDPM, ODI, SAIIA, TIPS, the Policy Center for the New South, and ACET. Each has been selected for its relevance to Africa-Europe relations and the depth of its published research. Our aim is to grow this into a comprehensive index across the field.
This is not an academic exercise. Understanding where the think tank community focuses — and where it does not — helps us identify the unmet analytical needs of businesses operating across the Africa-Europe corridor. Where the research is thin, the policy guidance tends to be thin too. This map makes that gap visible, so that Meridian17 and others can work to fill it.
The analysis is automated and should be read as indicative rather than definitive. Click any cell to see the underlying publications and the text that triggered the match.
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Is your organisation missing from this map? Are there think tanks we should include? Do the themes we track reflect what actually matters to business operating across Africa and Europe? If you work with policy research in this space and have ideas, corrections, or suggestions, we want to hear from you.
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Analysis generated by Meridian17 from full-text semantic embeddings of publications from ECDPM, ODI, SAIIA, TIPS, Policy Center for the New South, and ACET. Embeddings via nomic-embed-text. A publication is counted as substantively engaging with a theme if sufficient text chunks score above a cosine similarity threshold to the theme description.