COVID-19

Opinion – Can the Coronavirus Crisis Revive Multilateralism?

Dhanasree Jayaram • Mar 26 2020 • Articles

The call for multilateralism should be reinforced to tackle the far-reaching health, economic, (geo)political, infrastructural and social implications of the coronavirus crisis.

Student and Faculty Experiences of the Coronavirus Shutdown

E-International Relations • Mar 25 2020 • Student Features

As the coronavirus issue grew into a pandemic and our team experienced the shutdown of their universities, we collected some vignettes that we hope you will find useful.

Opinion – Coronavirus amid Regional Instability in the Middle East

Jasmin Lilian Diab • Mar 25 2020 • Articles

The Coronavirus pandemic seems to have pushed conflicts in the region into the background, but it is unclear how long this picture will remain.

Coronavirus and the End of Resilience

David Chandler • Mar 25 2020 • Articles

Coronavirus shows the limits of resilience. If we are the security threat as well as the subjects to be secured, then we cannot be trusted to secure ourselves.

Global Displacement, COVID-19 and the Risk of a False-positive Flattened Curve

Ali Al Bayaa • Mar 25 2020 • Articles

Any meaningful global health strategy to combat Coronavirus must take the potential risk to refugees and other vulnerable groups into consideration.

Opinion – The Limits of Humanist Ethics in the Anthropocene

Jan Pospisil • Mar 24 2020 • Articles

Anthropocene ethics evolve in a contestation between withdrawal and affirmation, and both of these logics develop in antagonisms that they cannot overcome.

Containing Coronavirus: Resilience in Times of Catastrophe

Pol Bargués • Mar 23 2020 • Articles

A planetary retreat seems the most ethical strategy to save lives, yet it is important to think what we are becoming as a society by withdrawing from communal life.

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