Diplomacy & Crisis News

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has highlighted social and economic measures his administration implemented, to address the COVID-19 pandemic and what he views as the politicization of the virus in South America’s largest country. 

The COVID-19 pandemic may have prevented world leaders coming to New York to address the General Assembly in person, but the president of the world body stressed on Tuesday that the need for deliberation, is “higher than ever”.

Speaking on Tuesday, United States President Donald Trump lauded the military power of his country, which, he said, demonstrates that the country is “fulfilling its destiny as peacemaker, but it is peace through strength”.

Au Sénégal comme dans toute l'Afrique, l'âge est tabou. Jamais on ne le demande. Sont donc considérés comme vieux ceux qui en ont l'apparence. Symboles de la sagesse, ils sont respectés par leurs enfants. Mais, avec l'urbanisation, les liens se modifient. L'écrivaine sénégalaise Mariama Ndoye, (...) / Afrique, Sénégal, Islam, Jeunes, Religion, Santé, Société, Travail, Retraites - 2013/06

The militant group mines almost half a billion dollars a year from Afghan soil—and wants more.

In his centerpiece address to the historic and unprecedented 75th session of the UN General Assembly, Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday appealed for global solidarity to overcome the COVID-19, and again call for a global ceasefire during the pandemic, by the end of the year. 

The continent's pop culture market is booming, just as U.S.-Chinese competition is heating up.

Début juin, le Conseil pour l'innovation énergétique américaine a demandé au président Barack Obama de tripler les dépenses de recherche sur les énergies propres. Mais les technologies « vertes » n'ont pas toujours les effets escomptés sur l'environnement… / Écologie, Économie, Énergie, Industrie, (...) / Écologie, Économie, Énergie, Industrie, Technologies de l'information, Technologie, Environnement - 2010/07

How not to evaluate American grand strategy.

Worsening conflict, combined with a precarious humanitarian situation, has forced more than 300,000 people to flee their homes and villages in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, leaving them completely reliant on humanitarian assistance, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has said. 

The NGOs and activists criticizing the commission’s inaugural report are distorting its contents.

The conflict between Ethiopia and Egypt over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has already started. It’s just happening in cyberspace.

U.S. officials still likely to use the General Assembly to push for more pressure on Iran.

Accéder à l’article de Norbert Gaillard, « Le COVID-19, accélérateur de la post-mondialisation » ici.

Retrouvez le sommaire complet du numéro 3/2020 de Politique étrangère ici.

The international community “should not be neutral” on enforced disappearance, independent UN human rights experts said on Monday, calling for countries to strengthen cooperation in investigating and prosecuting perpetrators.   

The best way to advance U.S. interests isn’t to chastise the United Nations—it’s to participate actively in its proceedings.

The postwar institution designed to maintain global peace has fallen short of many goals, but on the whole succeeded.

The choice is simple: accept devastating wildfires, extreme weather, species loss, and disease outbreaks or secure a sustainable future at a fraction of the cost.

“We don’t need a cheering section,” said Trump’s U.N ambassador. But Washington does need international compliance to make snapback sanctions work.

COVID-19 is an “unprecedented global crisis that demands an unprecedented global response”, the chief of the UN health agency said on Monday, unveiling a plan to have two billion doses of coronavirus vaccine available by the end of 2021.