Global Health Diplomacy and the Security of Nations Beyond COVID-19
Post-modern health diplomacy, more health attachés, more sophisticated bilateral data sharing and long term data partnerships would deliver better solutions.
Beyond COVID-19: From Crisis to Compassion
We are facing a great opportunity to wake up as a global civil society, one of sovereign states working together by aligning individual needs with collective ones.
Bolsonaro’s Brazil in Times of COVID-19: A Necropolitical Pharmakon
Once seen by millions as the remedy for Brazil’s “disease”, Jair Bolsonaro is turning into the poison many feared he would become.
The European Union’s Digital Strategy and COVID-19
The strategy in its current state successfully addresses most of the issues the outbreak of COVID-19 raises. Nevertheless, there is still room for improvement.
Colombia: Coronavirus in a Scenario of Humanitarian Crisis
In Colombia coronavirus is not creating a ‘new’ humanitarian crisis scenario. Instead, it is adding a new layer of complexity and deepening its previous vulnerabilities.
Reversal of (Im)mobility Privilege and Borders During COVID-19
In many people’s minds, closing borders means repelling migrants. But, Covid-19 has ridiculed this assumption as borders are not vanishing but rather metamorphosing.
The Global South in Times of Crisis: A China–Africa Relations View
Developing countries have an opportunity to provide the rest of the world with best practices of solidarity and generosity. A younger and more digitally connected population is among the positive signs of this.
The COVID-19 Experiment in Minsk
Lukashenka may or not may be the last dictator of Europe. But that he has risked the lives of thousands for a commemorative event is undeniable. It may be the epitaph of his lengthy presidency.
Writing About Displaced People in the Time of Coronavirus
The pandemic is simply exposing the ongoing precarity of the displaced rather than disrupting their ‘normal’ lives, and so there is much to learn about what international protection should look like.
Human Rights and Democracy Amidst Militarized COVID-19 Responses in Southeast Asia
We need to be cautious of the forms of suppression and violence justified in a time of crisis, because they may indicate the emergence of a politics of intolerance and cruelty.
