Order from Chaos

Shi'ite pilgrims make their way to Kadhimiya to mark the death of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim during a curfew imposed to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Baghdad, Iraq March 18, 2020. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

Are COVID-19 restrictions inflaming religious tensions?

Geneive Abdo and Anna L. Jacobs

Monday, April 13, 2020

Chinese President Xi Jinping learns about the hospital's operations, treatment of patients, protection for medical workers and scientific research at the Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak, Hubei province, China March 10, 2020. Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Fears of a Chinese global takeover are greatly exaggerated

Susan A. Thornton

Thursday, April 9, 2020

Mahmoud Jibril, head of the National Forces Alliance, talks during a news conference at his headquarters in Tripoli July 8, 2012. Jibril, the U.S.-trained consultant who abandoned the Gaddafi administration to become the face of the Libyan revolution, is positioning himself as a potentially unifying force as the country emerges from four decades of dictatorship. Picture taken July 8, 2012. To match Newsmaker LIBYA-ELECTIONS/JIBRIL REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra (LIBYA - Tags: ELECTIONS POLITICS)

Remembering Libya’s revolutionary prime minister, Mahmoud Jibril

Jeffrey Feltman and Gene A. Cretz

Thursday, April 9, 2020

REFILE - CORRECTING YEAR Captain Brett Crozier, commanding officer of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, addresses the crew during an all-hands call on the ship’s flight deck in the eastern Pacific Ocean December 19, 2019. Picture taken December 19, 2019. U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nicholas Huynh/Handout via REUTERS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Why Crozier was correct

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen listens as U.S. President Donald Trump leads a discussion on immigration proposals with conservative leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., January 23, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

On CVE, the Trump administration could have been worse

Eric Rosand and Stevan Weine

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Police officers wearing protective face masks stop a passenger to check his documents before entering the ferry station to go to Niteroi, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil March 22, 2020. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

How COVID-19 is changing law enforcement practices by police and by criminal groups

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, wearing a protective mask used as a preventive measure against coronavirus disease (COVID-19), attends an emergency session of parliament in Kiev, Ukraine March 30, 2020. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

March was a roller coaster month for Ukraine

Monday, April 6, 2020

An elder carry a plastic container filled with water from a pipe in a street of a slum during a nationwide quarantine due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Caracas, Venezuela April 2, 2020. Picture taken April 2, 2020. REUTERS/Manaure Quintero

When pandemics come to slums

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Paul H. Wise

Monday, April 6, 2020

BRASILIA, BRAZIL- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks during the videoconference with the G20 member countries about measures to combat the coronavirus in Brasilia, Brazil on March 26, 2020. At the G20, Bolsonaro highlighted the progress of the research carried out in Brazil and in other countries on the treatment with hydroxychloroquine against Covid-19, the first clinical study in the country that tests the use of the drug against the virus. He also expressed his opinion on the need to protect people's health and, at the same time, protect jobs.

Stretching the international order to its breaking point

Monday, April 6, 2020

A Medical Examiner's Office employee and a unit of National Guard members walk near refrigerated trailers used as morgues on East 3oth Street near the Office of the New York City Chief Medical Examiner as the city prepares for a surge of COVID-19 cases requiring medical treatment; in New York , NY, USA on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. (Photo by Albin Lohr-Jones/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

We should prepare now to send US armed forces to help police in hard-hit areas

Michael E. O’Hanlon, Colonel Rick Fuentes, Paul Goldenberg, John Donohue, and John R. Allen

Saturday, April 4, 2020

Caucus participant Sophia Egal, center right, holds a sign for presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders before caucusing at the Muslim Community Organization Monday, Feb. 3, 2020, in Des Moines. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/TNS/ABACAPRESS.COM)

How foreign policy factors for American Muslims in 2020

Shadi Hamid and Adham Sahloul

Friday, April 3, 2020

Chinese customs officials carry sacks of pangolins scales they seized on a ship in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China November 29, 2017. Picture taken November 29, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT.

What coronavirus means for online fraud, forced sex, drug smuggling, and wildlife trafficking

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Friday, April 3, 2020

A Chinese investor looks at stock index and prices of shares (red for price rising and green for price falling) at a stock brokerage house in Nanjing city, east China's Jiangsu province, 14 February 2019.The China stock market on Thursday wrote a finish to the five-day winning streak in which it had surged almost 150 points or 5.9 percent. The Shanghai Composite Index now rests just beneath the 2,720-point plateau and it may extend its losses on Friday (15 February 2019). The global forecast for the Asian markets is mixed to lower on concerns for trade and the outlook for interest rates. The European and U.S. markets were mostly lower and the Asian markets are likely to open in similar fashion. The SCI finished barely lower on Thursday following losses from the energy producers, while the financials and properties came in mixed. For the day, the index dipped 1.37 points or 0.05 percent to finish at 2,719.70 after trading between 2,707.49 and 2,729.46. The Shenzhen Composite Index rose 9.16 points or 0.66 percent to end at 1,398.84.No Use China. No Use France.

Forecasting energy futures amid the coronavirus outbreak

David G. Victor

Friday, April 3, 2020

A Jordanian doctor walks next a mobile clinic that is operated as part of initiative that was launched with the aim of providing Jordanians with field medical services, amid concerns over the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Amman, Jordan, March 30, 2020. Picture taken March 30, 2020. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed

Our finest hour

March 28, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with China's President Xi Jinping at the start of their bilateral meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

The US, China and Asia after the pandemic: more, not less, tension

Ryan Hass and Kevin Dong

Wednesday, April 1, 2020