Order from Chaos

An Egyptian Muslim wearing a protective mask performs amid social distancing markers, first prayers of Al-Fajr prayer inside the Al Rahman Mosque after months of lockdown, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the Cairo neighborhood of Maadi, Egypt June 27, 2020. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

Reopening the World: Reopening Muslim religious spaces

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

The first umbrellas were mounted that will cover the spaces in front of the premises, enlarged to facilitate the safe arrangement of the tables according to the safety rules on coronavirus, at San Marco square in Venice, Italy, on June 27, 2020. The first covers were set up in front of the Caffè Florian. Then the workers' teams moved on to Quadri, Lavena and will conclude at the Aurora and Chioggia cafes, in front of Palazzo Ducale. The artifacts are all the same, with a square plan and the same ivory white color as the "lunettes" that cover the arches of the Procuratie. The design, agreed with the Traders Association of Piazza San Marco, is inspired by the canvases depicted in the paintings by Canaletto dedicated to the Marcian area. The umbrellas will remain until October 31, a grant from the Superintendency, which in the past had refused similar proposals, to facilitate the cafes that are trying to recover from closure. Photo by MBtarget / IPA/ABACAPRESS.COMNo Use Italy.

Reopening the World: Italy’s reopening

Giovanna De Maio

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus (COVID-2019), in Geneva, Switzerland, February 28, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/

Reopening the World: The WHO, international institutions, and the COVID-19 response

Bonnie Jenkins and Bruce Jones

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

French President Emmanuel Macron wears a protective face mask as he exits a voting booth prior to casting his ballot at a polling station during the second round of French municipal elections, that was delayed due to the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, France June 28, 2020. Yoan Valat/Pool via REUTERS

Reopening the World: The day France reopened

Célia Belin and Agneska Bloch

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

People wearing face mask are seen during commuting time in Beijing, China on June 29, 2020, amid continuing worries over the novel coronavirus COVID-19. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

Reopening the World: China recovers first – with what lessons?

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Tourist Ann-Kathrin from Germany wears a face mask as she walks past the East Side Gallery, the largest remaining part of the former Berlin Wall, following the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease outbreak in Berlin, Germany, June 27, 2020. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

Reopening the World: Reopening Germany

Constanze Stelzenmüller and Samuel Denney

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

MOSCOW, RUSSIA- President Vladimir Putin held a video conference meeting with participants of the national campaign "We Are Together" in Moscow, Russia on June 26, 2020. "The coronavirus epidemic in Russia is on the decline", Putin declared this Friday (26). "Now, thanks to God, the epidemic is receding, and the volume of tasks that volunteers must complete begins to decrease little by little," said the Russian leader during a meeting with the participants of the "We Are Together" initiative that covered the entire territory of the country. The president stressed that the Russian volunteers "carried out their work successfully" and also announced that the NGOs that help people in precarious situations managed to raise some 1,800 million rubles (almost 25.9 million dollars) for people affected by the pandemic.

Reopening the World: Is Russia avoiding blame and getting by on the cheap?

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

People living near the Trump wall between San Diego and Tijuana. Tijuana - Mexico - November 2019. Des gens vivent près du mur de Trump délimitant la frontière entre les Etats-Unis et le Mexique. Tijuana - Mexico - Novembre 2019.NO USE FRANCE

Reopening the World: Walling off Mexico will not work

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

A monkey sits in a cage a market in Mong La on Myanmar's border with China on August 15, 2007. Chinese demand for exotic wildlife -- part of a global multi-billion dollar black market -- is emptying the Myanmar's jungles of wild elephants, monkeys and tigers. To match feature MYANMAR/WILDLIFE REUTERS/Stringer (MYANMAR)

Reopening the World: To prevent zoogenic pandemics, regulate wildlife trade and food production

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

UN peacekeepers (UNIFIL) patrol in southern Lebanese town of Ramyah, Lebanon September 9, 2019. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho

Debating UN peacekeeping in Lebanon

Jeffrey Feltman

Monday, June 15, 2020

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen waves to the crowd in Keelung, Taiwan, June 9, 2020. REUTERS/Ann Wang

The COVID-19 crisis has revealed Taiwan’s resilience

Monday, June 15, 2020

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend a Christian Democratic Union (CDU) board meeting in Hamburg, Germany January 17, 2020. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer

Why cutting American forces in Germany will harm this alliance

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Monday, June 15, 2020

Iranian lawmakers attend the opening ceremony of Iran's 11th parliament, practicing social distancing as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Tehran, Iran, May 27, 2020. WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY

What explains the decline of Iran’s moderates? It’s not Trump

Ali Fathollah-Nejad and Amin Naeni

Monday, June 15, 2020

Irregular forces loyal to former army general Khalifa Haftar stand by an armed vehicle during clashes with Islamist militants in the eastern city of Benghazi June 2, 2014. Eight people were killed and 15 wounded when fighting broke out on Monday between the Libyan army and Islamist militants in the eastern city of Benghazi, medical sources said. The Ansar al-Sharia militant group attacked a camp on Monday belonging to army special forces, residents there said. Forces of the renegade general fighting Islamists later joined the battle, using combat helicopters, they added. REUTERS/Stringer (LIBYA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)

Libya’s proxy sponsors face a dilemma

Ranj Alaaldin and Emadeddin Badi

Monday, June 15, 2020

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley testifies beside U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on "Department of Defense Budget Posture" on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 4, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo

The case for rethinking the politicization of the military

Jim Golby and Mara Karlin

Friday, June 12, 2020