Coronavirus (COVID-19) Politics and International Relations

Display of books published by Brookings Foreign Policy in 2021.

20 Brookings Foreign Policy books for 2021

Ted Reinert and McCall Mintzer

Thursday, December 2, 2021

A traveller arrives at Heathrow Airport Terminal 3, following the lifting of restrictions on the entry of non-U.S. citizens to the United States imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in London, Britain, November 8, 2021. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

Travel is resuming, but not for everyone

Monday, November 8, 2021

Voters in Ward 3 vote on Election Day on Nov. 3, 2020 at the Gypsy Hill Park Gym in Staunton.Dsc 9669

Pandemic Politics: Red state governors are in trouble for their Covid leadership

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko meets state security officials in Minsk, Belarus September 27, 2021. Maxim Guchek/BelTA/Handout via REUTERS

Rule of law takes a big hit during COVID-19

Monday, October 18, 2021

EU flags waving in front of European Parliament building. Brussels, Belgium

A conversation about economics and geopolitics with Paolo Gentiloni

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

Friday, October 15, 2021

COVID-19 vaccine in researcher hands, doctor holds syringe and bottle with vaccine for coronavirus cure.

For COVID-19 vaccinations, party affiliation matters more than race and ethnicity

William A. Galston

Friday, October 1, 2021

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher A. Wray appears before a House Committee on the Judiciary hearing Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the US Capitol Visitors Center Auditorium at the US Capitol, in Washington, DC, Thursday, June 10, 2021. Credit: Rod Lamkey / CNP/Sipa USANo Use Germany.

Amid polarization, bipartisan oversight still exists in Congress

Naomi Maehr and Molly E. Reynolds

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

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The vaccine divide will drive even worse economic divides

Mark Muro and John C. Austin

Monday, September 13, 2021

Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga bows during speaking to media at the prime minister’s office in Tokyo on September 3, 2021. PM Suga decided not to run for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) presidential election. PM Suga will resign prime minister as his term of office expires at the end of this month. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

Suga steps down: Japanese politics in the pandemic era

Friday, September 3, 2021

A globe and syringe on a blue background

Innovating beyond patent waivers

Harvey Rubin and Nicholas Saidel

Tuesday, August 31, 2021