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Commentary
Embracing a Pandemic-Centered Foreign Policy
March 1, 2021 | Gregory B. Poling Committing resources to such pandemic-centered foreign policy framework would go a long way to recapturing U.S. leadership in Southeast Asia.

Blog Post
U.S.-India Healthcare Cooperation
February 11, 2021 | Anit Mukherjee
From Adapt & Advance: A Refreshed Agenda for U.S.-India Relations
The inauguration of a new administration in the backdrop of a global pandemic seems to be an opportune moment to begin a new phase of U.S.-India healthcare cooperation.

Commentary
Vaccine Diplomacy Is Biden’s First Test in Southeast Asia
January 28, 2021 | Gregory B. Poling, Simon Tran Hudes China quickly answered Southeast Asia’s call for international help in securing Covid-19 vaccines but could potentially attach costly conditions. CSIS experts see an opportunity for the Biden administration to reassert U.S. leadership and offer the region alternatives.

A masked farmer works in a paddy field in Srinagar, India on September 15, 2020. | TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP via Getty Images
Interactive report
Innovating to Improve Nutrition Within the Covid-19 Crisis
September 29, 2020 | Katherine E. Bliss

As the Covid-19 pandemic is exacerbating global nutrition challenges and erasing hard-fought gains from the past decade, governments, multilateral organizations, and NGOs are finding new ways to improve and reprioritize nutrition while responding to the pandemic.

Report
After Disruption: Historical Perspectives on the Future of International Order
September 2, 2020 | Emma Bates The pandemic threatens to disrupt world order. What comes next? Looking across four centuries of upheaval, historians offer their insights. History suggests that if America and its allies cannot adapt, others will be waiting to build a new order in their own likeness.

Report
Is It Possible to Avert Chaos in the Vaccine Scramble?
August 6, 2020 | J. Stephen Morrison, Anna McCaffrey, Katherine E. Bliss In the global scramble for a Covid-19 vaccine, the United States has pursued a nationalist approach. This paper argues that it is in the core national security interests of the United States to adopt a hybrid strategy, one that blends nationalism and internationalism.

Newsletter
Asia’s Covid-19 Lessons for The West: Public Goods, Privacy, and Social Tagging
July 16, 2020 | Victor Cha Epidemiologists universally acknowledge that communities in Asia including in Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam have been more successful than the United States and most European countries in “flattening the curve” and limiting the spread of the...

Blog Post
Better Governance, Better Outcomes: East Asian Experiences Tackling Covid-19
June 2, 2020 | Scott Kennedy, Shining Tan
From Trustee China Hand
Up through January 2020, the US-China trade war dominated the headlines and oriented most of the discussion about East Asia’s economic trajectory.

Commentary
The Trump Administration’s Ignominious Exit at the 2020 World Health Assembly
May 20, 2020 | J. Stephen Morrison The United States escalated its confrontation with the World Health Organization and China at the 2020 World Health Assembly. In doing so, it has withdrawn from any meaningful leadership role in the international response to Covid-19.

Commentary
WHO and President Trump on the Ledge
April 28, 2020 | J. Stephen Morrison, Anna McCaffrey President Trump's suspension of funding to WHO could gravely compromise the global response to Covid-19. If common sense and diplomacy prevail, the administration and WHO can walk back from the ledge, with a bipartisan nudge from Congress and gentle pressure from the G-7.

Interactive
Covid-19 Response Update: April 10-April 17
April 17, 2020
In Defense 360

A roundup of the developments in the military’s response to COVID-19 from April 10-April 17 by the CSIS International Security Program.

Newsletter
South Korea Offers a Lesson in Best Practices
April 13, 2020 | Victor Cha

When it comes to the novel coronavirus, South Korea has taken tracing to a new level. 

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