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Can Biden Reverse Trump’s Damage to the State Department?
“Reeling from the leadership of Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo, career officials wonder whether Secretary of State Antony Blinken can revitalize American diplomacy” (Ronan Farrow, 2021).
We Don’t Need the G7
The G7’s “recent summit in Cornwall should be its last. Political leaders need to stop devoting their energy to an exercise that is unrepresentative of today’s global economy and results in a near-complete disconnect between stated aims and the means adopted to achieve them” (Jeffrey D. Sachs, 2021).
How Human Nature Can Combat Climate Change
“The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that we will conquer the virus by focusing on a common goal, cooperating, and allowing people the freedom to innovate. We will overcome the threat of global warming the same way” (Alexander De Croo, 2021).
When Sanctions Violate Human Rights
This report examines how sanctions can violate human rights, particularly when states employ little transparency, and develops recommendations to prevent against human rights abuses committed through sanctions by nation-states.
Not Monsters After All: How Political Deliberation Can Build Moral Communities Amidst Deep Difference
“This article proposes a different function for deliberation, which is both more modest but nevertheless critical in public life: the legitimation not of decisions, but of fellow citizens. This outcome is especially important in polarized societies” (Wahl 2021).
The Wisdom of Small Crowds: The Case for Using Citizens' Juries to Shape Policy
The article promotes the use of Citizens’ Juries to shape policy, arguing that these Juries serve as a small representation of the public and, along with cynical expertise, can shape better policy and bring together different viewpoints for deliberation.
Reconsidering Taiwan's Place in the International Order: Lessons from the WHO and ICAO
In this article, Michael Mazza explains that “Taiwan has been excluded from partaking in the conversation about ensuring global public health”, and claims that as a response to this exclusion and that of the ICAO, Taiwan should encourage overhauling the rules-based order from which it has been excluded. (Mazza 2021)
The Long Shadow of the Future
“We’re living through a real-time natural experiment on a global scale. The differential performance of countries, cities and regions in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic is a live test of the effectiveness, capacity and legitimacy of governments, leaders and social contracts” (Steven Weber and Nils Gilman, 2020).
The Measure of Moral Progress
“Mahatma Gandhi’s criterion for judging the greatness of a nation and its moral progress was its treatment of animals. By that standard, we cannot claim to have made much moral progress over the past two millennia” (Peter Singer, 2021).
The Terrible Cost of Mark Zuckerberg’s Naïveté
“No one can turn the clock back on what Mr. Zuckerberg has wrought by indulging Mr. Trump, who never met a Facebook regulation he did not desecrate. The attack on the Capitol...should have been no surprise to anyone who was connecting the dots, which Mr. Zuckerberg stubbornly declined to do until now” (Swisher 2021).
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