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World Politics and Coronavirus: The Actor-less Enemy
Coronavirus, which started in December 2019 and originated in Wuhan, China, has not resided in China alone. In less than three months, it became a pandemic…
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What’s the Best, or the Least, That We Can Expect from Trump?
“Modified aspirational” is the phrase that Donald Trump used on Sunday, in another of his train-wreck press briefings, to describe how his goal of reopening the…
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Hunger looms as the economy stops
The government needs to act to neutralise the threats to food and nutrition security from the lockdown. Shobha Poudel Countries across the world have gone into…
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Europe : Time for Political Action – or the Risk of Disintegration
Only nine years after the Euro crisis, the European Union is once again on the brink of collapse. Whilst the continent is now at the epicentre…
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Democracy in crisis: avoiding dictatorship
The President on March 2, 2020 by Gazette Extraordinary No. 2165/8 legitimately dissolved Parliament from midnight and fixed April 25, 2020 as the date for the…
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Winning the legal argument, China has learnt from history of great power relations
The case for China’s culpability is based on the principles of state responsibility and Beijing’s alleged failure to respect the obligation, under the 2005 International Health…
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Internet curbs on Rohingya risk wider virus outbreak
Bangladesh's block on Internet access in the Cox’s Bazar camps has obstructed refugees’ right to information on how to protect themselves Phelim Kine The Bangladeshi government…
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Shutdown economy
When enterprises cannot work and consumers cannot consume, a recession is inevitable. The measures taken to neutralize the triple economic shock have not yet helped: economists…
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Why India, not the US or EU, will be the world’s main battlefield in the fight against Covid-19
With its 21-day lockdown, India joined a long list of nations taking extraordinary steps to battle Covid-19 — and its results will determine the future of…
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Healthcare in the time of Covid-19: What can Bangladesh do?
Fahmida Khatun and Syed Yusuf Saadat Throughout the world, governments of various countries are taking extraordinary measures to deal with the crisis created by the COVID-19…
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Coronavirus could offer EU chance for much-needed reform
Given the panic enveloping the globe, let us logically think through the political risk ramifications of the coronavirus. The basic, Platonic question that first needs decisively…
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Covid-19 and the Rohingya refugee crisis
The first confirmed case in Cox’s Bazar exposes how our systems fail the most vulnerable Athena Rayburn All around the world, the numbers are climbing. Each…