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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 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…
Jordy Lee and Morgan Bazilian explain why disruptions from COVID 19 can have larger implications for developing nations that are dependent on the mining industry. Without an overt…
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…
In the German city of Koblenz, 23 April 2020 saw the start of a trial at the Higher Regional Court that is attracting worldwide attention: two Syrians are accused of participating…
The coronavirus pandemic has no parallel in living memory. The novelty of the virus itself is a massive medical challenge. But the pandemic is also a unique social problem for us…
Sukhayl Niyazov argues that central banks have become impotent and their traditional macroeconomic tools are not working.
Following the 2008 global financial crisis, the…
Nayef Al-Rodhan overviews the pandemic's affects so far and offer recommendations for states and international organisations seeking to learn from the crisis.
From the…
As COVID19 rages across the world, it is renting asunder the global order. With the US in self-isolation, Europe on its knees and China discredited, the war on the virus is being…
Laurissa Mühlich, Barbara Fritz, William N. Kring, and Kevin P. Gallagher call for an urgent upgrading of global institutions for short-term crisis finance.
The ongoing COVID-19…
The coronavirus pandemic is yet another case that demonstrates the limits of international collaboration in dealing with global challenges. A reform and strengthening of the UN…