Lack of international agreement on a COVID-19 vaccine could cause new conflicts
International cooperation and an agreement on equitable access to a new vaccine is in the interest of everyone.
International cooperation and an agreement on equitable access to a new vaccine is in the interest of everyone.
A common thread in Trump’s foreign policy is that the stated objectives are not real objectives.
Just as quarantine and social-distancing measures have transformed people’s lives and work in the U.S., Washington’s war fighting will have to adapt.
The COVID pandemic has highlighted the social, economic, and sectarian divisions in Bahrain, which the ruling family has failed to address, and oftentimes has exacerbated, in recent years.
Why are the U.S. and China considered the world’s two greatest powers when they both have bungled the coronavirus crisis so badly?
The Trump administration and its coterie of China-bashers have been dusting off the fake-intelligence playbook Dick Cheney used to justify war with Iraq.
The anti-Asian rhetoric emerging from the COVID-19 crisis not only infringes on the rights and security of those of Asian decent, it also creates an atmosphere of fear and mistrust within the U.S. national security apparatus.
Under the guise of fighting the coronavirus, the Egyptian government is cracking down on critics and imposing more restrictions on personal freedoms.
Suspending all sanctions now will not only help combat the coronavirus, but it will also create the conditions to resolve our differences diplomatically.
Despite the need to focus on combating the coronavirus, the Trump administration is moving forward with arms sales that can provide both the tools for and the tacit acceptance of, repressive regimes around the world.
The Covid-19 outbreak might serve as a moment to pause and realize how valuable regional Persian Gulf dialogue about health resilience could be.
Hostility has failed, and twenty-first century threats demand that we cooperate with the rival we need now more than ever.
A recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal calling for a more militaristic approach toward China failed to disclose that its authors stand to gain financially from what they’re proposing.
In response, Beijing is likely to use its economic might and trigger a wide-ranging and flexible toolkit of coercive measures that it has used strategically throughout the world.
Disputes over the origins of and fall out from the new novel coronavirus have supercharged American hawks into pushing for all-out confrontation with China.
A cold war is heating up with China, particularly after a new report that Joe Biden is going to try to — mistakenly — try to out-hawk Trump.
As “post-Covid” countries continue reopening their economies to business, the world may soon become divided into “Covid-safe” and “Covid-unsafe” zones.
Without more international funding, the impact of the locusts across the Horn of Africa, Middle East, and South Asia — on top of the COVID-19 pandemic — is going to be catastrophic.
Trump botched his COVID-19 response disastrously, so now he’s giving anti-China conspiracy theories the full weight of the U.S. government.
Out of context whispers of intelligence are like catnip to reporters and sometimes high ranking military officials weaponize it to advance their preferred policy positions.
Lockdowns are not only aggravating conflict around the world, but they’re also making it more difficult for local peacebuilders to make key connections to mitigate it.