Situation update
Situation update
Situation Update on COVID-19, 25 May 2020
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Will the crisis bring Russia back to the 1990s?
What does this crisis look like How much will the crisis in Russia in 2020 differ from the crisis of the early 1990s? A blow to…
Situation update
Situation Update on COVID-19, 24 May 2020
Situation update
Situation Update on COVID-19, 23 May 2020
Situation update
Situation Update on COVID-19, 22 May 2020
Analysis
Megacity slums are incubators of disease – but coronavirus response isn’t helping the billion people who live in them
Robert Muggah and Richard Florida Having ravaged some of the world’s wealthiest cities, the coronavirus pandemic is now spreading into the megacities of developing countries. Sprawling…
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Is a Global Economic Rescue Package the Answer?
The United Nations has been relentlessly pursuing a highly-ambitious blueprint for the sustainable future of humanity –harking back to the adoption of a new global economic…
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RECENT DELHI ANTI-MUSLIM VIOLENCE India’s Kristallnacht?
THE Anti-Muslim violence that took place during the last week of February (February 23–25) this year in Delhi which was largely concentrated in the north-eastern part…
Analysis
Covid-19 and The Implementation of Xi Jinping’s Major-Power Diplomacy
The Covid-19 pandemic has generated significant stress and distrust between China and other countries, particularly the United States. While tensions between the two powers are not…
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UN needs a paradigm shift to lead us out of the crisis
The first Secretary-General of the United Nations, Trygve Lie, remarked in 1948, "The United Nations may need to adjust to new realities and respond to unforeseen…
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Will Zoomplomacy Last?
As the coronavirus rages on, diplomacy has moved completely online—with mixed reviews. Daniel B. Shapiro and Daniel Rakov During the first week of April, at the…