Despite the challenges many African countries continue to face, their response to COVID-19 has been replete with admirable displays of agency, innovation, and ingenuity, writes Lidet Tadesse, an analyst covering peace, security and regional integration in Africa.
The relative success of Japan in containing COVID-19 reveals gaps in the common narratives about ways to control the spread of the virus, writes Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Director of the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs and Professor of International Affairs at The New School.
Sophia Kalantzakos, Global Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Public Policy at NYU Abu Dhabi, on how technological competition has emerged as the new crucial battlefield in the US-China rivalry after COVID-19.
Prashant Kidambi, Associate Professor in Colonial Urban History at the University of Leicester, on the continuities and disjunctions between responses to the 1896 bubonic plague and COVID-19 in Mumbai, India.
The pandemic has plunged developing countries deeper into debt. Barry Herman, Visiting Scholar at The New School, assesses the options available to them.
Min Ye, Associate Professor of International Relations at Boston University, unpacks what the policy discourse of Chinese analysts and opinion leaders says about the trajectory of post-pandemic globalization in China.
The pandemic has not been a crisis that has brought finance to a standstill. To the contrary, it has opened up new opportunities for the extension and intensification of certain financial practices, write Janet Roitman and Andrew Moon of The New School
Djavad Salehi‐Isfahani, Professor of Economics at Virginia Tech, on how US sanctions have aggravated Iran's COVID-19 crisis.
The coronavirus shutdown in Ghana exposes the weaknesses and inequities in the country’s education system, writes Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, Assistant Professor of Global Media Industries, University of Georgia.
