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COVID-19 pandemic evolution in the developing world. COVID-19 has spread rapidly in the country

Examining the impact of COVID-19 on US domestic priorities and foreign policy commitments.

COVID-19. Even after contracting COVID-19 himself – the second leader in the region

Tony Blinken discusses the impact of COVID-19 and the 2020 US presidential elections on America’s global role.

There has been no better example of the political diversity in Latin America than the varying responses of governments to the coronavirus crisis.

Planning now is essential to ensure the legitimacy of November’s elections is not impacted by COVID-19, as vulnerabilities are becoming ever more apparent if voting in person is restricted.

Covid-19) (Photo by Jonathan Lanza/NurPhoto via Getty Images) On 30th March US Secretary of State

As the coronavirus outbreak looks to increase already rising US-China tensions, the speakers outline their views on its implications for the current world order.

COVID-19 pandemic; and so cities, especially New York City, have risen to the occasion

COVID-19, one quarter of Latin Americans who only recently escaped poverty, many of them

Democracy is often depicted as a means to peacefully resolve political conflict and socioeconomic discontent. But what happens when that essential safety valve of elections has been closed off?

COVID-19 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 14 March 2020 (Photo by Lalo Yasky/Getty Images

Experts on both sides of the Atlantic give their perspectives on whether the pandemic has changed national understandings, narratives, and foreign policy debates on China.

Panellists discuss how the novel coronavirus will elevate or tame calls for de-globalization as states prioritize their own nation’s need for medical resources over the need to cooperate internationally.

COVID-19). Photo: Getty Images. Brazil ranks second in world in  COVID-19 infection

COVID-19 test on Chief Domingos from the Arapuim tribe. (Photo: Getty Images.) Latin America

The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the debate over whether authoritarian states are gaining the upper hand across the world. In contrast, democracies are showing capacity for innovation and adaptation.

COVID-19 exposes the fragility of global supply chains, leaving companies and policymakers to reconsider a decades-long focus on efficiency and reducing costs by operating on a ‘just in time’ basis.

COVID-19 pandemic has brought much of international air travel to a halt and has confined

Managing relations with China once the COVID-19 crisis abates will be one of the biggest challenges facing political leaders in the United States and Europe – two of the areas worst-hit by the virus that originated in China.

With trade tensions increasingly politicized, a key appeals process suspended and COVID-19 creating huge economic challenges, a modernized and fully functioning WTO is more essential than ever. This paper makes the case for transatlantic cooperation as a necessary, though insufficient alone, condition for WTO reform.

With less than four months remaining until the presidential election, former Vice President Joe Biden holds a substantial lead over President Trump in the polls. Professor Peter Trubowitz writes that the COVID-19 pandemic means that there will be far more absentee ballots, and that we should not discount the likelihood of President Trump using this difference to claim that the final result is a fraud if he does not win.

COVID-19 pandemic has changed national understandings, narratives, and foreign policy debates on China

COVID-19 pandemic is having a dramatic impact in the region. How will a new administration

COVID-19. It was ‘paused’ for some weeks at the height of the first

The urgent need for US leadership to drive forward a coordinated international response to coronavirus is developing rapidly alongside snowballing demands for Washington to step up its efforts at home.

A President Donald Trump and a former Vice President Joe Biden supporter converse before the

The brutal killing of George Floyd in one of America’s most progressive cities has catapulted race politics to the top of the national agenda.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s decision to travel to the US was met with concern and incredulity in Mexico and bafflement among many Democrats in the US. Being seen as a close ally to Donald Trump could be detrimental to the future of bilateral relations.

Canadian attitudes towards China have undergone a dramatic shift – from ambivalence to distrust – since the two countries became locked in a diplomatic dispute in late 2018. This paper argues that these hardened sentiments are unlikely to dissipate and Canada–China relations seem to have entered a new, warier phase.

This discussion considers how philosophically aligned the EU and the US currently are, and how important this alignment is in ensuring a fruitful relationship.

Jeh Johnson, former secretary of homeland security, discusses the role of agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security in responding to contemporary crises.

Part of the Inaugural Virtual Roundtable Series on the US, Americas and the State of the World.

180,000 Americans have died from coronavirus – but the president proclaimed his successful record and attacked Biden as a threat to the US.

Trump’s determination to appear strong in the face of physical weakness is redolent of occupants of the Kremlin – the problem for him is that US democracy has been designed to check strongman politics.

A ‘diplomatic romance’ between old friends ultimately reflects a convergence of interests – Canada and the UK have good reasons to gravitate towards each other.

On 7 October, Vice President Mike Pence and California Senator Kamala Harris went head-to-head in the first and only vice presidential debate.

What difference can an election make? A range of leading experts consider the most pressing foreign policy challenges for the next US president, and examine how the outcome of the 2020 election will affect these. 

With less than two weeks left until the elections, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden faced off for the final time on 22 October.

Examining the post-election landscape of the US and analysing how the president-elect should tackle major policy on immigration, trade, and the Middle East.

United States trade representative Robert E Lighthizer provides his outlook on the future of international trading systems in a COVID-19 world.

COVID-19 has affected the presidential race in numerous ways, changing the nature of campaigning