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Is it possible to reform the United Nations?
The global governance system born in 1945 is not enough to face the challenges of the 21st century. Cristina Manzano A carpet at the entrance to…
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Technocracy After COVID-19
Crisis management only blurs ever more the boundary between politics and technical expertise. Jonathan White “COVID-19 represents a new form of economic shock that cannot be…
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Coronavirus reveals the dread of a ‘non-polar’ world
The two great powers cannot lead and there is no persuasive coalition to replace them Janan Ganesh It would be tasteless to crown the geopolitical winner…
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Việt Nam’s wartime strategy successfully deployed for COVID-19 battle
Việt Nam recently celebrated the 45th anniversary of the country’s National Reunification and victory over a global superpower, but it has also been praised internationally in…
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Following the Science: Politicians and Experts
Leaders rely on experts both to help them decide policy and to support them in the decisions they make. They know that in a pandemic like…
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Who’s right on COVID-19? The optimists or the pessimists?
Ted Williams was one of the greatest hitters baseball has ever seen, and his theories of how to succeed at the plate are still influential. He…
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After Little India riot, Singapore promised migrant workers decent housing. What happened?
Some 13,000 migrant workers in dorms – mostly from India, Bangladesh and China – have tested positive for Covid-19 since the start of April. Their living…
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Challenges for South Asia in, and after, pandemic
The primacy of politics in the region will require radical reform to cope with the post-Covid-19 world Mubashar Hasan and Kenji Isezaki In less than three…
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Life after the pandemic
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic we have begun to analyse, forecast and speculate the impact on economies, societies, political systems, governance mechanisms, and on…
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Shift to Plant Based Proteins to Prevent Future Pandemics
Three consignments of African Pangolin scales have been recently seized at ports in two Southeast Asian countries. On the first day of April, port authorities in…
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Situation normal, but all locked up: How Modi govt has risked incapacitating India
India needed to get back to work in stages, instead of extending the induced coma of the lockdown and allowing selective opening up in our colour-coded…
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News media in South Asia in a revenue freefall due to COVID-19
They say that the news media loves a crisis. The novel coronavirus pandemic or Covid-19 may well be the century’s most important crisis. Indeed, the viral…