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How People and Countries around the World Are Coping with Coronavirus

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As the novel coronavirus spreads around the world, people are responding to the onslaught in similar ways—social distancing, working from home, panic buying at grocery stores. But people in different countries are also weathering this crisis in different ways; for example, they are finding different products to hoard, different ways to pass the time, different people to blame, and even different things to worry about. Project on Europe Fellow Amanda Sloat will discuss the results of her mid-March research into these trends, as well as the numerous policy questions that have arisen in subsequent weeks. Executive Director, Cathryn Cluver Ashbrook will moderate the discussion. 

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Empty shelves are seen at a Sainsbury's store in London on March 17, 2020

ABOUT

Amanda Sloat is Fellow at the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She is also a senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings. Her areas of expertise include Turkey and Southern Europe, British politics, the European Union’s foreign policy, and trans-Atlantic relations.

Sloat served in the U.S. government for nearly a decade. She was most recently deputy assistant secretary for Southern Europe and Eastern Mediterranean Affairs at the State Department, where she was responsible for U.S. relations with Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey as well as for coordinating European engagement on Middle East issues. She also served as senior advisor to the White House coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and Gulf region and as senior advisor to the assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. She previously worked as senior professional staff on the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, with responsibility for European policy.

Prior to her government service, Sloat was a senior program officer with the National Democratic Institute, including work in Iraq with the Council of Representatives. She was also a post-doctoral research fellow with the Institute of Governance at Queen's University Belfast. During this time, she held visiting fellowships at the Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, and the Jean Monnet Center at New York University Law School. She also served as a special advisor to the Scottish Parliament, Northern Ireland Assembly, and European Commission.

Sloat holds a doctorate in politics from the University of Edinburgh and a bachelor's in political theory from James Madison College at Michigan State University. She has published a book, "Scotland in Europe: A Study of Multi-Level Governance" (Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2002). She has written widely on European politics in academic and foreign policy outlets.