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French President Emmanuel Macron wearing face masks during the visit of the military field hospital outside the Emile Muller Hospital in Mulhouse, eastern France, on March 25, 2020, on the tenth day of a strict lockdown in France to stop the spread of COVID-19. Photo by Mathieu Cugnot/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

France at war against the coronavirus: Politics under anesthesia?

Célia Belin, Agneska Bloch, and Jérôme Nicolaï

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador shakes hands with girlds while visiting towns in the southwestern state of Guerrero, as Mexico's health ministry urged people to mantain a "healthy distance" to avoid infection and the spreading of coronavirus (COVID-19), in Ayutla de los LIbres, Mexico March 15, 2020. Mexico's Presidency/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

AMLO’s feeble response to COVID-19 in Mexico

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, March 30, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Houthi troops ride on the back of a police patrol truck after participating in a Houthi gathering in Sanaa, Yemen February 19, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah/File Photo

Why are Yemen’s Houthis attacking Riyadh now?

Monday, March 30, 2020

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper (L) shakes hands with Mexico's President Felipe Calderon (C) as U.S. President Barack Obama looks on during a trilateral meeting at the North American Leaders' Summit in Guadalajara August 10, 2009. Leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada gather on Monday to present a united front to try to limit the spread of the H1N1 swine flu, but there is less unity on simmering trade issues. REUTERS/Chris Wattie (MEXICO POLITICS)

Lessons learned from Felipe Calderón’s swift response to H1N1 in 2009

Vanda Felbab-Brown

March 27, 2020

General Khalifa Haftar attends a news conference at Benina air base in Benghazi May 24, 2014. Haftar, a former Gaddafi ally who split with the autocrat in the 1980s, is the latest player to emerge in Libya's network of former fighters vying for control over parts of the country. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori (LIBYA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

A foreign policy toward warlords

Daniel L. Byman and Israa Saber

Monday, March 30, 2020

Members of the American Red Cross remove Spanish influenza victims from a house at Etzel and Page avenues in 1918. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch file photo/TNS/ABACAPRESS.COM)

We’re a nation all too ripe for another shock

Sunday, March 29, 2020

FILE PHOTO: A banner depicts Benny Gantz, leader of Blue and White party, and Israel Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as part of Blue and White party's campaign ahead of the upcoming election, in Tel Aviv, Israel February 17, 2020. REUTERS/Ammar Awad/File Photo

In Israel, Benny Gantz decides to join with rival Netanyahu

Natan Sachs and Kevin Huggard

Friday, March 27, 2020

A woman casts her ballot as an another voter waits for his turn at a polling station during the presidential election, in Yaounde, Cameroon October 7, 2018. REUTERS/Zohra Bensem

Stabilizing Cameroon requires a sustained solution for democracy, rights, and governance

Patrick W. Quirk and Daniella Montemarano

Friday, March 27, 2020

FILE PHOTO: A patient infected with coronavirus is carried on a stretcher by a French rescue team before being transferred by a helicopter of the civil security (Securite Civile) from Strasbourg university hospital to Pforzheim in Germany as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in France, March 24, 2020. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/File Photo

Now is the time to revisit the Global Health Security Agenda

Friday, March 27, 2020

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