Opinion – How Coronavirus Exposes Unequal Access to Education in America
What do you get when you cross coronavirus and unequal access to WiFi? A perfect example of how the US education system fails to satisfy the right to equal education.
Opinion – Why COVID-19 Will Not Be ‘Good’ for the Environment
Covid-19 presents an opportunity to ask difficult questions, make tough decisions and to rebuild the global economy in a more sustainable manner.
Opinion – The Defense Production Act, COVID-19 and Critical Minerals
Without clear policy to give the mining industry a comprehensive understanding of America’s material needs, it is unlikely that the United States will be able to achieve mineral security.
Opinion – Is the Coronavirus War Narrative Helping Pakistan?
Rather than using the war-narrative, there is evidence that people may accept difficult steps if they are coupled with a more humane and sympathetic narrative.
NGOs on Coronavirus Mode: The Risks of ‘Business as Usual’
The challengefor NGOs is to gain in reflexivity through an exercise of active observation and assessment, to generate situational responses that need to be constantly assessed.
What International Relations Tells Us about COVID-19
A Trump re-election loss will not remove structural barriers to collaboration, but it might delegitimate some of the zero-sum thinking that proliferated during his time.
Opinion – Lessons America’s Adversaries Can Learn from the Covid-19 Pandemic
If we fail to examine scenarios of pandemics worse than Covid-19, we will suffer similar results and western democracies may find it hard to recover from such events.
Opinion – Coronavirus: Beyond Europe’s North-South Divide
The European debate over coronavirus is not geographical but ideological, involving three competing views of how Europe should address current and future challenges.
COVID-19’s Reshaping of International Alignments: Insights from Italy
Only a strong and coordinated response from the whole European Union will help states getting through the challenges produced by the pandemic.
Opinion – How to Call the COVID-19 Pandemic and Why it Matters
The current crisis was generated neither by a rare ‘black swan’ nor by a well visible ‘grey rhino’. Instead, it was a simple ‘bee in a car’ that caused this disaster.
