July 2, 2020
Southeast AsiaPrime Minister Lee Hsien Loong declared in a televised address last week that Singapore would hold its next general election on July 10. Lee and other members of the long-ruling People’s Action Party…
July 1, 2020
Public Health Threats and PandemicsEndemic to the African tropics, the Ebola virus has killed thousands in recent years, putting the World Health Organization and major donor countries in the limelight as they’ve grappled with how to …
June 30, 2020
Sub-Saharan AfricaSub-Saharan Africa is home to many of the world’s longest-ruling heads of state, but civil society and regional blocs may be slowing the trend of extending presidential terms in some areas.
June 25, 2020
Conflict PreventionThe Center for Preventive Action has created this resource for those seeking information and analysis about the effects of COVID-19 on peace and conflict.
June 18, 2020
Diplomacy and International InstitutionsCouncil on Foreign Relations 06/18/2020 Educators Webinar: The Triumph and Peril of America’s Alliances with Mira Rapp-Hooper
June 18, 2020
IndiaIn this video of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Center for Preventive Action Roundtable Series on Managing Global Disorder, Qingguo Jia, Peking University, and Dhruva Jaishankar, Observer Research…
June 12, 2020
United StatesEach year CFR.org editor Bob McMahon and I record a special episode of The World Next Week on our summer reading recommendations. Being sticklers for tradition, we did so again this year. We thought,…
June 10, 2020
Europe and EurasiaThe COVID-19 pandemic has already sparked considerable debate over how the present international order could change as a consequence. Some commentators see the world growing more fragmented and disor…
June 9, 2020
Security AlliancesMira Rapp-Hooper, Stephen A. Schwarzman senior fellow for Asia studies at CFR and senior fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss whether America…
June 3, 2020
Global GovernanceAlthough the world seems destined to grow more competitive, congested, and contested in the coming years, the logic of major power cooperation remains inescapable. Efforts to shape a stable, inclusive, and beneficial order must be collaborative.
