For the first time in living memory, humanity is confronting a common threat that it must defeat collectively. It is time to start planning for when the eventual victory comes
The coronavirus pandemic has overturned many assumptions about the current world order. As a matter of urgency, it is time to revisit the principles of international security.
In the pandemic, for the first time in living memory, humanity is confronting a ...
... the national sovereignty of states, or new pandemics will force us to pay an increasingly higher price for the priority we give to national sovereignty and the loyalty we show to political particularism
In the four months that have passed since the coronavirus outbreak began, it seems that just about everyone has had something to say about the situation—experts, regular folk, politicians, businesspeople, footballers, ice hockey players, the G7, the G20, the European Union and the African Union....
... Nobel Prize in economics to understand that without stabilizing energy markets, the crisis will only deepen.
Christian Wollny:
Coronavirus Reveals Cracks in European Unity
Today, many analysts are rushing to make comparisons between the state of affairs ... ... to the specifics of the moment that we are all experiencing. The G20 may become one of the important nodes of the complex new global governance mechanism, but it is incapable of replacing the whole mechanism.
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Preliminary results of the coronavirus test on society show the lack of instinct that is inherent in anybiological species to protect its population
The coronavirus pandemic has already become the main event of the leap year, relegating other dramatic news of recent months to ...