Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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More than an effort to prevent nuclear proliferation, the killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist was sanctioned to foment trouble between Washington’s incoming administration and Tehran.
In the chaotic early weeks of the pandemic, when Europe was ground zero for the international spread of the coronavirus, European unity seemed a distant prospect. But Merkel’s leadership combined with a gigantic recovery fund have helped the EU bounce back.
After a brief lull early in the pandemic, global protest movements are surging back.
The old rules of Belarus and Russia’s alliance may no longer apply. Will the two neighbors find a way to update them?
Early in the outbreak, government researchers forecast several high-risk scenarios that were downplayed or ignored in public messaging.
Other democracies have managed to pull back from nativist political rhetoric. It’s past time for the United States to do the same.
Many protest movements have adapted to coronavirus-related restrictions as they fold new public health and economic concerns into their lists of governance grievances.
Even as the economic impact of the pandemic deepens, Putin is unlikely to walk back his signature interventions abroad.
The crisis atmosphere of the coronavirus response raises the risks of corruption as aid flows to graft-prone healthcare systems. But it’s not too late to put safeguards in place.
The world’s influence operators are exploiting fear and uncertainty around the coronavirus. It will take discipline and discernment to dodge their traps.