Coronavirus (COVID-19) Politics and International Relations

IMF Headquarters

COVID-19 uncertainty and the IMF

Douglas A. Rediker and Heidi Crebo-Rediker

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

U.S. military personnel wearing face masks arrive at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, as the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., April 7, 2020. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Extending soldiers’ assignments may help the military maintain readiness

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

A picture taken on March 5, 2020 shows the headquarters of OPEC, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, in Geneva, Switzerland. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

No winners, only strange bedfellows, from the new OPEC+ deal

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

A group of residents of the Chapeu Mangueira slum, prepares food for distribute it to homeless people in Copacabana neighborhood during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 11, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Landau TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Solving both the short- and long-term COVID-19 crises

Mahmoud Mohieldin and Michael Kelleher

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Vice President Joe Biden speaking at a Brookings-Biden Institute event, May 8, 2018 (Paul Morigi photos)

If Biden wins, he’ll have to put the world back together

Thomas Wright and Kurt Campbell

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Armed Houthi followers ride on the back of a truck outside a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen April 8, 2020. Picture taken April 8, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Saudi Arabia wants out of Yemen

Monday, April 13, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Saudi Arabia's Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud and Russia's Energy Minister Alexander Novak are seen at the beginning of an OPEC and NON-OPEC meeting in Vienna, Austria December 6, 2019. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/File Photo

Brookings experts comment on oil market developments and geopolitical tensions

Samantha Gross, Bruce Riedel, Angela Stent, and Suzanne Maloney

Monday, April 13, 2020

Women are painting the names of victims of femicide in front of Mexicos National Palace before a massive march to protest gender-based violence and inequality on International Womens Day at Zocalo Square in Mexico City, Mexico on March 8, 2020. According to government statistics, at least ten women are murdered every day in Mexico, making it one of the most dangerous countries in the world for girls and women. Femicides rates have doubled in the past five years in Mexico. Impunity is a major problem, 90 percent of cases go unsolved. After a series of brutal femicides, activists called for a national womens strike. On March 9, thousands of women and girls across Mexico are expected to stay home from works, schools and social media sites, in a mass strike called "A Day Without Us" to protest a rising wave of violence against women and what many call an unresponsive government. (Photo by Bénédicte Desrus/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

COVID-19 can augment violence to Mexican women

Vanda Felbab-Brown

April 10, 2020

NORTH KOREA.- In the photo released on March 13 by the North Korean KCNA agency, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is seen as he watches his troops fire rockets and artillery shells. There is one thing in particular that differentiates North Korean leader Kim Jong-un from his officers: he is the only one who does not wear a coronavirus mask. Kim has overseen multiple military exercises in recent weeks, as Pyongyang is organizing its response to stem an outbreak of the new coronavirus that has spread from China to the rest of the world. (PROHIBITED TO RESALE)

A tale of two Koreas in the age of coronavirus

Monday, April 13, 2020

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