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Parents wait outside the main campus of the Istanbul University while their children take the national university entrance exams, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Istanbul, Turkey June 27, 2020. REUTERS/Murad Sezer

Reopening the World: As the country normalizes, COVID-19 strains Turkey’s economy and politics

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

FILE PHOTO: An employee wearing a protective mask, leaves a menu on a table at the beach bar of the Divani Apollon Palace hotel, on the first day of the opening of hotels in Greece, following a nationwide lockdown against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Athens, Greece, June 1, 2020. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis/File Photo

Reopening the World: Responsibly reopening Greece

William J. Antholis and Filippos Letsas

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

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

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

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (center) speaks in a video conference with the heads of the European Union (EU) in London, Britain, on June 15, 2020. Johnson held talks on Monday (15) at video with EU bosses, and both sides called for fresh momentum in the search for a deal before the end of this year, when the Brexit transition period ends. In a joint statement released after the online summit between Johnson and European Council President Charles Michel, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and President of the European Parliament David Sassoli, the two sides said they took note of the Britain's decision not to request any extension to the transition period.

Delayed Brexit deal could even spill over to 2021

Monday, June 15, 2020

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) toasts with Chinese President Xi Jinping while congratulating him on his birthday before the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Dushanbe, Tajikistan June 15, 2019. Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS.

The limits of authoritarian compatibility: Xi’s China and Putin’s Russia

June 2020

A student wearing a mask, because his cancer treatment has left him immunosuppressed and vulnerable to diseases such as the coronavirus, walks through the Yard at Harvard University, after the school asked its students not to return to campus after Spring Break and said it would move to virtual instruction for graduate and undergraduate classes, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., March 10, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

How to rethink the teaching of international relations

James Goldgeier and Carmen Iezzi Mezzera

Friday, June 12, 2020

EDIRNE, TURKEY- In the photos, immigrants are seen near the border of Turkey with Greece in the province of Edirne, Turkey, on March 3, 2020. Thousands of Syrian refugees are anxiously waiting to cross into Europe from Turkey, on the border Northwest with Greece.

As COVID-19 worsens precarity for refugees, Turkey and the EU must work together

Kemal Kirişci and Başak Yavçan

Thursday, June 11, 2020