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Unless the United States and China find a way to work together to address the most pressing issue of our time, a disaster...

Beijing’s planned dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo river (the Brahmaputra in India) could be another sore point between the neighbours, who are locked...

President Hassan Rouhani has defended his administration’s efforts to purchase a COVID-19 vaccine, reassuring Iranians that the country will succeed despite United States pressure. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/26/rouhani-defends-covid-vaccine-efforts-amid-us-pressure

Following legislative elections, President Nicolás Maduro controls all of Venezuela’s major political institutions. Meanwhile, the country’s crisis deepens apace. An exit remains possible if...

Russian mediation succeeded in ending the six-week war in Nagorno-Karabakh but left much unresolved, chiefly the region’s future status. If the cessation of hostilities...

This Briefing Note provides up-to-the-minute analysis of attempts to end Libya’s almost decade-long civil war through talks focused on reunifying the country’s government, oil-based economy and...

An informal ceasefire has created the best opportunity in two years to curb fighting between Myanmar and the Arakan Army, the ethnic Rakhine rebels...

https://blogs.imf.org/2020/12/23/global-policy-responses-to-capital-flow-volatility/

https://blogs.imf.org/2020/12/22/reclaiming-our-world-post-2020/