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The Case for Ecological Realism
Stewart M. Patrick, WPR The time has come for the nations of the world to embrace a new approach to world politics that treats the...


Canberra vs Beijing: Getting serious about costs
Sam Roggeveen, The Interpreter It is impossible to have a useful public debate about the value of sovereignty if we refuse to put a price...


UK’s Asia Minister discusses science & business with Vietnam as part of ‘renewed focus’ on relations
Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Nigel Adams MP, Gov UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office Minister for Asia Nigel Adams MP held several...


Security Council extends for one year, lifesaving cross-border aid to Syria
UN News The Security Council has authorized one year, cross-border humanitarian aid to allow the delivery of food, medicine and other...


New Age diplomacy: Indian envoys & their counterparts brainstorm on digital platform
Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury, Economic Times NEW DELHI: A virtual series on ‘Dialogue on Partnership beyond Pandemic’ launched on June 17 is...


The United Nations, COVID-19 and the Value of Multilateralism
H.E. The Hon. Mitch Fifield, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Asia Society The UN is far from...


How Biden Would Wage Great Power Competiton
Patrick Tucker, Defense One The last National Defense Strategy, served as the Pentagon’s bible for investment, research, and training...


How COVID-19 Has Transformed Multilateral Diplomacy
Stephanie Liechtenstein, World Politics Review The coronavirus pandemic has made such breakthroughs impossible. Face-to-face meetings...


Coronavirus: EU measures to support the economy
European Commission The European Commission has announced measures to support Europeans and the European economy in this time of crisis....


Key policy responses from the OECD
OECD The OECD is compiling data, analysis and recommendations on a range of topics to address the emerging health, economic and societal...


UNOCHA financial tracking service: COVID-19 emergency funding data tracker
UNOCHA The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs provides aggregated tracking of both incoming funding and...


Israel announces partnership with U.A.E., Which throws cold water on it
Ronen Bergman and Ben Hubbard, The New York Times Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touted a rare public opening between the two...


China Laps the U.S. in Latin America with Covid Diplomacy
Mac Margolis, Bloomberg Long before the novel coronavirus hit Latin America, the United States was losing ground in its own hemisphere to...


Science diplomacy has come of age in the time of coronavirus
Ruqayya Alblooshi, Gulf News As the world battles to contain COVID-19, scientists and researchers take the centre stage. As the defining...


The importance and opportunities of transatlantic cooperation on AI
Joshua P. Meltzer, Cameron F. Kerry, and Alex Engler, Brookings Artificial intelligence (AI) is a potentially transformational technology...


Why the Compacts of Free Association Matter to Washington
Grant Wyeth, The Diplomat With its eyes on China, the United States seeks to reaffirm its presence in the western Pacific. Last week,...


Erdogan says Turkey, US reached agreements on Libya
The Associated Press Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that he has reached agreements with his U.S. counterpart Donald...

Regionalization of Multilateralism
One of the most interesting and surprising phenomena enhanced by the pandemic is a renewal in regional organizations’ proactivity – with...


COVID-19 pandemic to transform China-Africa relations
Chiponda Chimbelu, DW The coronavirus outbreak has revealed cracks in the China-Africa dynamic. Gone are the days of Chinese big loans...


The Artemis Accords and the Next Generation of Outer Space Governance
David P. Fidler, Council on Foreign Relations On May 15, NASA announced the Artemis Accords, conceived as a set of bilateral agreements...
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