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USA – Is America’s Fourth Estate in Foreclosure? (Jiri and Leni Valenta, BESA Center)

The modern American usage of the term “fourth estate” refers to the press as a free power, and even as a watchdog over the executive, legislative,...

TURKEY – Turkey’s Slow-Motion Economic Crisis (Selva Demiralp, Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Project-Syndicate)

Banks cannot engineer a balance between exchange rates and interest rates in a country with free capital flows, where banks’ funding conditions are affected...

PANDEMIC/VACCINE – Globalizing the COVID Vaccine (Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Project-Syndicate)

In less than a year, the world has come together to develop effective COVID-19 vaccines and a multilateral platform for allocating them most efficiently...

INDIA – Lessons from India: How we can build equitable economies from restoring landscapes (Ruchika Singh, Marie Duraisami, Rohini Chaturvedi, Karishma Shelar, Rajendra Singh...

Sidhi is a resource-rich but impoverished district in central India. Most of its inhabitants depend on forests and the land to survive. But...

CAMBODIA – COVID-19 worsens Cambodia’s political oppression (Katrin Travouillon, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/01/05/covid-19-worsens-cambodias-political-oppression/

NORTH KOREA – North Korea: out of the frying pan, into the fire (Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/01/04/north-korea-out-of-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire/

IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL – What Is the Iran Nuclear Deal? (Kali Robinson, CFR)

The United States’ withdrawal from the arms control agreement has heightened tensions and left the remaining signatories scrambling to keep the deal alive. https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-iran-nuclear-deal

USA/CHINA – Avoiding the climate canard in US-China relations (Ryan Hass, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/01/04/avoiding-the-climate-canard-in-us-china-relations/

MEXICO – Crime and anti-crime security policy in Mexico in 2020 (Vanda Felbab-Brown, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/01/04/crime-and-anti-crime-security-policy-in-mexico-in-2020/
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