Coronavirus (COVID-19) Politics and International Relations

A man wearing a protective face mask as he gestures while shopping amid the rush of people outside an electronics market, after Pakistan started easing the lockdown restrictions, as the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Karachi, Pakistan June 4, 2020. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

With a mix of pandemic denialism and exceptionalism, Pakistan makes a cynical bet on the coronavirus

Friday, June 5, 2020

A White House staff member gestures to move the press corps back as U.S. President Donald Trump walks between lines of riot police for a photo opportunity at St John's Church during ongoing protests over racial inequality in the wake of the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody, near the White House in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

We’ve now entered the final phase of the Trump era

Thursday, June 4, 2020

SAO PAULO, BRAZIL.- In the photo taken on April 11, 2020, thousands of people in the main cities of Brazil protested on Saturday night from the windows of their houses against the government of President Jair Bolsonaro. Under the slogan "Fora Bolsonaro", thousands of people beat their pots and pans from their windows and balconies, in protest at the way the Executive has been handling the health crisis of the Covid-19 coronavirus.

Civil society creativity around the world can sustain protests in the coronavirus era

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Thursday, June 4, 2020

Greek flag on the roof of a church of Santorini. Santorini, Greece, August 17, 2018. Photography by Jean Baptiste Premat / Hans Lucas.Drapeau Grecque sur le toit d une eglise de Santorin. Santorin, Grece, 17 Aout 2018. Photographie de Jean Baptiste Premat / Hans Lucas.NO USE FRANCE

How Greece can reopen without ruining its coronavirus containment success

William J. Antholis and Filippos Letsas

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Images of the Chinese and American flags

No one knows: How the unknowable consequences of COVID-19 affect thinking about foreign policy and US-China relations

Monday, June 1, 2020

Webinar: How COVID-19 and the oil shock will reshape the Middle East

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM EDT

FILE PHOTO: U.S. and Chinese flags are adjusted before the opening session of trade negotiations between U.S. and Chinese trade representatives at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. Mark Schiefelbein/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

It’s not a lie, it’s a tweet

Sheena Chestnut Greitens, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson

Slate Political Gabfest

Friday, May 29, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Patrick Kapple, right, waits in line outside Riverside University High School to cast a ballot during the presidential primary election held amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. April 7, 2020. REUTERS/Daniel Acker

Mail-in ballots, the coronavirus, and a partisan brawl

Friday, May 29, 2020

Flags of NATO member countries are seen at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, November 26, 2019. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

The end of world order and American foreign policy

Thomas Wright and Robert D. Blackwill

May 2020

On May 28, 2020, Tanvi Madan discusses India-China economic and geopolitical competition amid the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing standoff between Indian and Chinese troops along the Line of Actual Control with the Young India Policy Forum.

Tanvi Madan

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