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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)
Authoritarians Are Exploiting the Coronavirus. Democracies Must Not Follow Suit.
"Democracies are far more effective at combating national crises, but that hasn’t stopped despots across the world from trying to tighten their grip." (Smith and Cheesman, 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).
Bill Gates on How to Fight Future Pandemics
"The coronavirus will hasten three big medical breakthroughs. That is just a start… When historians write the book on the covid-19 pandemic, what we’ve lived through so far will probably take up only the first third or so. The bulk of the story will be what happens next." (Gates, 2020)
Pandemic Propaganda is Coming. Be Ready for It
Ahead of the 2020 election, “American voters will be adrift in a fog of disinformation, uncertain whether to believe anything they read or hear. As a result, there is likely to be an even more fractured electorate shaping American society for the next four years, and perhaps well beyond” (Vera Zakem, 2020).
COVID-19 Economic Consequences, Resources and Effective Measures
“…While we still do not know the full impact of the pandemic in terms of lives lost and the public health ramifications, we do know that the fiscal response will be massive and have consequences that will ripple through the global economy, affecting future policy decisions for years to come" (Institute for State Effectiveness, 2020).
New Zealand’s Prime Minister May Be the Most Effective Leader on the Planet
"Jacinda Ardern’s leadership style, focused on empathy, isn’t just resonating with her people; it’s putting the country on track for success against the coronavirus." (Friedman, 2020)
Re-examining the Terms of Aid
This report examines the implementation gaps in fragile state development "and how development partnerships can better support fragile states to build state functions, deliver on their citizens’ expectations, and transition from fragility to self-reliance" (Institute for State Effectiveness, 2020).
We Won't Know the Exact Moment When Democracy Dies
"In the early days of the Trump Presidency, there was a lot of speculation about when, if, and how we would pass the point of no return, when we would know that American democracy had been destroyed. That conversation faded after a while, drowned out by the din of Trumpian news. The coronavirus pandemic has brought it back. " (Gessen, 2020)
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