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Conflict in the time of coronavirus
"The equation is simple: we cannot effectively respond to a global pandemic when millions of people are still caught in warzones… We must have a global ceasefire, and we must put our collective resources behind making that ceasefire a reality. "
No Return to the ‘Old Dispensation’
“The history of greed, venality, stupidity, cruelty and violence is long because that part of human nature is ineradicable. As the 20th century demonstrated, it is better to bet on a liberal society’s capacity to temper these flaws and iniquities than on a utopia’s false promise to eradicate them. Those promises end being written in blood” (Roger Cohen, 2020).
What Democracy Will Fall Next?
"In March, Hungary became the first democracy to succumb to the coronavirus. With stunning speed, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban jammed through an emergency decree that gave him extraordinary powers for an indefinite period of time and put in place draconian restrictions on political freedoms" (Feldstein, 2020)
Communications and COVID-19: Fundamentals for Effective Government to Citizen Crisis Communications
“This Recovery and Resilience Note looks at response and recovery communications for governments and public officials, focusing on effective citizen-centric communications during times of crisis that can be applied at the local and national levels of government during the COVID-19 crisis" (Institute for State Effectiveness, 2020).
There is a glimmer of hope': economists on coronavirus and capitalism
In this article, “Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and Irish economist David McWilliams” discuss “the hope for a global new deal” (Varoufakis and McWilliams, 2020).
The New Great Depression Is Coming. Will There Be a New New Deal?
“As we approach this year’s election, we’re looking at an abyss. The question is what will fill it. Societal disaster can have horrific political consequences: Around the world, despots are using the pandemic as an excuse to grab ever more power. But the need to rebuild the country comes with opportunities” (Michelle Goldberg, 2020).
In A Crisis, True Leaders Stand Out
“Leadership may be hard to define, but in times of crisis it is easy to identify. As the pandemic has spread fear, disease and death, national leaders across the globe have been severely tested...the master class on how to respond belongs to Jacinda Ardern, the 39-year-old prime minister of New Zealand” (NYT Editorial Board, 2020).
Enabling Media Markets to Work for Democracy
“This study outlines the case for, and the practical feasibility of establishing, a new International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM)” which would “ focus mainly on resource-poor settings across the world where the economic and political challenges confronting independent media have become overwhelming” (Luminate, 2020).
Coronavirus has revealed the EU's fatal flaw: the lack of solidarity
"In a recent interview, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, laid out how European leaders had a rendezvous with history and needed to come together... By all measures, this rendezvous with history was missed. European leaders in effect agreed to keep calm and carry on." (Vallee, 2020)
Despotism and Democracy in the Age of the Virus
“The first major crisis of the post-American world is ugly and is going to get worse. A pandemic required a pan-planet reaction. Instead it found Pangloss in the White House blowing smoke and insisting, as disaster loomed, that it was still the best of all possible worlds in America” (Roger Cohen, 2020).
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