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Building Back Better for Universal Health
The Elders have launched a new report calling on leaders to make the achievement of Universal Health Coverage a top priority in their government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.In "Building Back Better for Universal Health", The Elders note that UHC remains the best way to strengthen collective health security to protect us against future pandemics. (The Elders, 2020).
The United States Must Marshal the "Free World"
“The “un-free” world seeks to undermine international norms, Western liberal values, and democracy itself...Biden will need to marshal the very strengths that define democratic government if he is to both mend domestic wounds and temper the threats that face democracies globally” (Alexander Vindman, 2020).
The transatlantic relationship and European strategic autonomy
“Discussions on European strategic autonomy have increased in their intensity, with its most ardent supporters seeing a window of opportunity to be seized as Trump seemed to be de-coupling the US from Europe. Still, others held their breath for a renewal of the transatlantic bond once Trump left” (Courtney 2020).
Democracies must team up to take on China in the technosphere
Regarding China, “an insular America can remain a technology superpower. A connected America cemented into the rest of the world by means of a grand technopolitical bargain could be the hub of something truly unsurpassable” (The Economist, 2020).
Joe Biden and the New Art of World Leadership
“The contrast with Trumpism will quickly become apparent in Mr Biden’s approach to leadership, allies and engagement with international institutions. Writing in Foreign Affairs earlier this year, Mr Biden insisted that ‘America must lead again,” and that his foreign-policy agenda would “place the United States back at the head of the table’” (The Economist, 2020).
Joe Biden Won’t Fix America’s Relationships
The author explores after the election of Joseph Biden to the U.S. Presidency how “Serious questions about America’s role in the world will not go away just because Donald Trump was defeated” (Tom McTague, 2020).
Coming Storms: The Return of Great-Power War
“Tensions persist among today’s great powers” and China and the United States “are on a collision course fueled by the dynamics of a power transition and their competition for status and prestige, and without a change in direction, war between them in the coming decades is...probable” (Christopher Lane, 2020).
“Whoever Finds the Vaccine Must Share It” Strengthening Human Rights and Transparency Around Covid-19 Vaccines
Strengthening Human Rights and Transparency around Covid-19 Vaccines. (Human Rights Watch, 2020).
The United States and Central Europe: A Roadmap for a Democratic Post-Pandemic Agenda
This report examines democratic solidarity as the main principle for success in a post-pandemic world, examining policy on both sides of the Atlantic and in Central Europe related to democratic resilience and democratic cooperation to foster a better world.
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