Geopolitics & Worlds

Readout of National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s Meeting with UAE and Saudi Arabia Ambassadors to the United States (White House)

Today National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met with both UAE Ambassador to the United States Yousef Al Otaiba and Saudi Ambassador to the United...

Readout of President Biden’s Video Call with European Leaders on Russia and Ukraine (White House)

President Biden held a secure video call with European leaders today. They reiterated their continued concern about the Russian military build-up on Ukraine’s borders...

Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, January 24, 2022 (White House)

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:39 P.M. EST MS. PSAKI:  Hi, everyone.  Happy Monday. Okay.  This afternoon, the President will meet with the White House Competition...

Vietnam’s path forward on COVID-19 and corruption (David Brown, East Asia Forum)

COVID-19 broke loose in Vietnam in June 2021, a year after most of East Asia. Until June, countermeasures and aggressive contact tracing had held...

Myanmar tumbles into the abyss (Nicholas Farrelly, East Asia Forum)

Until the 1 February 2021 coup, Myanmar was gradually leaving behind the worst aspects of military dominance. The steps forward were still usually tentative and too...

Malawi’s president dissolves cabinet over corruption allegations (Al Jazeera)

Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera has dissolved the country’s entire cabinet amid charges of corruption against several ministers, he announced in an address to the nation. Late on...

What’s behind Burkina Faso’s latest military coup attempt? (Al Jazeera)

Soldiers in Burkina Faso have detained the president in the latest military coup attempt. The main TV station is under military control and the internet is down. The...

New Zealand’s bipartisan housing reforms offer a model to other countries (Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy, Brookings)

Over the past decade, many cities around the world have experienced a significant rise in housing costs, and the large cities of New Zealand...

Is Saudi Arabia entering a ‘Great Reshuffle’? (Nayib Rivera and Johannes Koettl, Brookings)

In many high-income countries, the pandemic has caused seismic shifts in labor markets. What started as an increasing shortage of workers in a few...

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