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Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons Passes Important Threshold

Rick Gladstone, NY Times | Fifty countries have now ratified the treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons, so it will become international law....

The War Comes Home: The Evolution of Domestic Terrorism in the United States

Center for Strategic and International Studies This analysis provides new data on the domestic terrorist threat in the United States. It...

MENA: Trade and Regional Integration are Critical to Economic Recovery in the Post-Covid Era

Modern Diplomacy | Trade and integration — within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and with the rest of the world — will be...

Pandemic worsens challenges of fragile states in Middle East and Central Asia, IMF says

Massoud A Derhally, The National | Coronavirus has led to remittances declining by as much as 25% in some countries during the first half...

Team Biden Should Start With an Asia Pivot 2.0

Foreign Policy | The recent meeting of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue in Tokyo revealed many of the dilemmas the United States faces...

Trump, Biden and the World

Washington Post | A presidential election in the United States is an international event. For decades, the question of who occupies the...

The pandemic has caused the world’s economies to diverge

The Economist | As recovery from COVID-19 takes place, huge gaps between the performance of countries are opening up—which could yet...

EU seeks to boost eurozone with green bond program

Pensions & Investments| The European Union wants to lift the GDP of the eurozone economy by 3% by 2027 through borrowing under a new...

Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, Recent Developments

CFR | In late September 2020, heavy fighting broke out along the border—the most serious escalation since 2016. More than one hundred...

Purchasing COVID-19 Vaccines: Analysis of Costs and Benefits for Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-american Development Bank | There are major gains to accelerating access to a COVID-19 vaccine. The World Bank predicts a...

Indian government sets up a panel to screen all Chinese foreign investment proposals

Kirtika Suneja and Deepshikha Sikarwar, The Economic Times | India has set up a screening panel to vet all Chinese foreign investment...

As the Election Looms, Investors See Uncertainty. They Don’t Like It.

The New York Times | The stock market has been on a tear for much of 2020, but there is now more volatility as investors worry about the...

Trump administration is stepping up scrutiny of past Chinese tech investments

Washington Post | After TikTok, the federal government is stepping up its scrutiny of past Chinese investments in U.S. tech start-ups,...

Fighting Between Armenia and Azerbaijan Risks Drawing in Bigger Powers

Andrew E. Kramer, The New York Times | Escalation on both sides suggests that an extended conflict may ensue in Nagorno-Karabakh,...

The Transformation of Diplomacy: How to Save the State Department?

William J. Burns and Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Foreign Affairs | After four years of attacks by the Trump administration, U.S. diplomacy...

UAE-Bahrain deals with Israel offer chance at a ‘warm peace,’ economic growth and a moderate Mideast

Frederick Kempe, CNBC | It’s been a safe bet over the last four decades to “short” the region, as other parts of the world have moved...

Citizens’ assemblies are increasingly popular. Do They Work?

The Economist l Over the past decade, democratic institutions have taken a battering. One solution, long favored by political scientists,...

The UN at Seventy-Five: How to Make it Relevant Again?

CFR.org Editors Members of six leading global think tanks reflect on what reforms are the most important for the United Nations as it...

Broad Canvas of Indian Diplomacy during the Pandemic

Harsh Vardhan Shringla, Mizzima India has long been a constructive actor in the shaping of a people-centric international order. We have...

Germany wades into the Indo-Pacific fray

Richard Javad Heydarian, Asia Times Germany has officially joined the “Indo-Pacific” geopolitical club as outlined in a new 40-page...