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This interview was conducted by the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to look ahead 10 years…
Young people around the world are developing new technologies to help in the fight against COVID-19. These innovations include low-cost ventilators, 3D-printed medical supplies…
The number of countries in which state structures have collapsed seems to be growing. But is it really? Are these so-called failed states a threat to global security? And is there…
Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat and Dikanaya Tarahita argue that Indonesia’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic may cause it to fall into barbarism.
In The Conversation,…
Moussa Sangare points out reasons why mass surveillance by the State may become the norm in a post-Covid-19 world. He also argues that close cooperation between the European Union…
Why we should emulate the US Air Force’s “integrated air defence” approach to move out of lockdown.
The world is rapidly changing as a result of the worst pandemic since the…
Germany’s private sector lobbied to tie COVID19 aid to climate action. Unless companies world-wide follow suit, decades of climate progress could be undone.
Reduced global carbon…
Threats and Alliances in the Middle East: Saudi and Syrian Policies in a Turbulent Region by May Darwich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 218 pp, £75 hardcover…
The combination of Covid-19 and the forthcoming US election is driving Sino-US relations to the point where a new ‘Cold War’ could be a best case scenario.
“The relationship…
The world economy is entering a deep economic recession, as massive lockdown efforts across the world have brought industry and services to a grinding halt. To support a rapid and…