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To Counter China, Look to Canada and Mexico

Thu, 30/07/2020 - 22:42
Reinvigorated North American supply chains would support a more globally competitive continent and stymie China's increasing ambitions.

The End of American Illusion

Tue, 28/07/2020 - 19:38
Washington must move past the myths of liberal internationalism and reconsider its views about world order.

Citizens of the World

Mon, 27/07/2020 - 20:14
In "The Europeans," Orlando Figes shows how Europe’s cosmopolitan culture developed in the nineteenth century.

Present at the Disruption

Mon, 27/07/2020 - 18:06
Trump tried to overturn U.S. foreign policy without offering a substitute. The result is a United States and a world that are worse off.

When Toppling Monuments Serves Authoritarian Ends

Thu, 16/07/2020 - 21:59
History is everywhere in India, deployed to enrage and incite.

Iran and the United States Can’t See Each Other Clearly

Fri, 26/06/2020 - 23:35
Domestic political dynamics in the two countries risk fueling a cycle of escalation. Meanwhile, the odds of a diplomatic resolution dwindle by the day.

China’s Sovereignty Obsession

Fri, 26/06/2020 - 04:37
Facing pressure at home and criticism abroad, China wants to telegraph strength even on its rugged Himalayan border with India.

The Secret to a Safe Reopening

Thu, 25/06/2020 - 21:04
Why the end of lockdown looks so different around the world.

How to Forecast Outbreaks and Pandemics

Thu, 25/06/2020 - 18:51
The United States needs the contagion equivalent of the National Weather Service.

The Growing White Supremacist Menace

Tue, 23/06/2020 - 04:27
COVID-19 has been a boon for far-right extremists.

When the CIA Interferes in Foreign Elections

Sun, 21/06/2020 - 02:19
A behind-the-scenes look at how the United States' Cold-War Strategy of election meddling has evolved in the twenty-first century.

Civil Rights Has Always Been a Global Movement

Fri, 19/06/2020 - 05:02
Though the long history of African American engagement overseas is often omitted from conventional narratives about U.S. foreign policy, it has profoundly shaped contemporary global understandings of race, and has complicated—when it has not outright undermined—official U.S. government messaging about American values.

How to Compensate the Pandemic’s Victims

Wed, 10/06/2020 - 22:53
But before enacting a publicly funded compensation program that would require individuals to surrender their right to sue, Congress should carefully consider the challenges—and some alternatives.

The Folly of Decoupling From China

Wed, 03/06/2020 - 14:37
Decoupling from China isn't just perilous—it’s impossible.

Chronicle of a Pandemic Foretold

Tue, 19/05/2020 - 17:54
If the world doesn’t learn the right lessons from its failure to prepare and act on them with the speed, resources, and political and societal commitment they deserve, the toll next time could be considerably steeper.

The Pandemic Will Accelerate History Rather Than Reshape It

Tue, 07/04/2020 - 01:57
The world following the coronavirus pandemic is unlikely to be radically different from the one that preceded it.

The Strategic Case for U.S. Climate Leadership

Thu, 02/04/2020 - 18:03
The winner of the emerging clean energy race will determine the economic and geopolitical balance of power for decades to come. The United States should lead the way by embracing carbon pricing as a cost-effective and politically viable climate policy breakthrough.

What the World Can Learn From China’s Experience With Coronavirus

Mon, 02/03/2020 - 06:00

China still has 92 percent of the world’s cases of the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19, and all but 118 of the nearly 3,000 deaths from the virus have occurred within its borders. But the events of the last few days have shown that COVID-19 will not remain a primarily Chinese story for long.

The number of new cases of COVID-19 reported daily outside China now exceeds the number of new cases inside China for the first time. In the last week (since February 24), more than 30 new countries have reported their first COVID-19 cases, including Brazil in South America, Afghanistan in South Asia, and Bahrain in the Persian Gulf. Almost none of these countries’ cases came directly from China. Over the weekend, Washington State reported the first death in the United States from COVID-19, the first health-care worker to be infected with the disease, and, most worrying, the first known outbreak of the disease in a long-term care facility for the elderly.

As this coronavirus proliferates in countries far beyond its origin, national governments must consider carefully which parts of China’s experience will be generalizable to their countries.


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How the Good War Went Bad

Fri, 31/01/2020 - 21:27
Winning in Afghanistan was always going to be difficult, but avoidable errors have made it impossible.

How to Prepare for a Coronavirus Pandemic

Fri, 31/01/2020 - 06:00

When the first reports of a coronavirus outbreak hit the airwaves in early January, several dozen people had already caught the disease in or around the Chinese city of Wuhan. In the weeks since, the virus, nCoV, has spread quickly and the number of infections has grown by the day, even as Wuhan and other Chinese cities isolated large numbers of patients and quarantined some 50 million residents. At the latest count (as of Friday morning), there have been 213 deaths in China out of a total of 9,776 confirmed cases, and the virus has spread to more than 20 countries. On Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the disease a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern.”


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