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Commentary
Navigating Collapse in Lebanon’s Covid-19 Response
April 13, 2021 | Anna McCaffrey, Will Todman Lebanon is fighting Covid-19 while reeling from economic, political, and security crises. The United States should support multilateral efforts to strengthen Lebanon’s vaccine rollout in order to save lives and prevent further deterioration in a country on the verge of...

Critical Questions
Colombia Makes History by Offering Protective Status to Displaced Venezuelans
February 19, 2021 | Erol Yayboke, Jacob Kurtzer

Colombia’s recent decision to provide temporary protective status to 1.7 million Venezuelans in the country should bring migrants out of the shadows and facilitate the social and economic integration of Venezuelans who have fled their home country's humanitarian crisis.

Commentary
Covid-19: Compounding 10 Years of Health Crises in Syria
February 18, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic in Syria has created a crisis within a crisis. With a destroyed health system and deeply vulnerable population, Syria’s dire humanitarian situation is now compounded by Covid-19.

Commentary
Addressing the Growing Hunger Crisis in Syria
February 18, 2021 While a political settlement in Syria remains elusive, a life-threatening food security crisis threatens millions. As the new U.S. administration begins its term, it should increase the effectiveness of the aid response to reduce hunger and promote long-term recovery.

Report
Addressing Forced Labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
February 3, 2021 | Amy K. Lehr To reduce the risk of forced labor from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region affecting global supply chains, public and private actors can deploy various tools to support sourcing diversification in the textile, apparel, and footwear sectors.

Blog Post
The US and China: Not Number One
December 21, 2020 | Scott Kennedy
From Trustee China Hand
It is almost universally believed that the United States and China are locked in a strategic competition of epic proportions. But in many areas of social significance, both the US and China are not number-one. 

Commentary
Trade Policy Can Lead Covid-19 Economic Recovery
August 6, 2020 Covid-19 may be the most important humanitarian crisis of the twenty-first century. U.S. trade policy may prove to be one of the most powerful tools for heading off disaster.

Commentary
Can I Stay or Can I Go Now? Longer-term Impacts of Covid-19 on Global Migration
April 20, 2020 | Erol Yayboke Covid-19-related disruptions to global migration are unprecedented. As remittances correspondingly decrease, these disruptions could have long-term impacts on migration flows and thus on economic growth, global inequality, and on the well-being of migrants themselves.

Commentary
Public Surveillance to Keep Us Healthy and Protect Our Privacy
April 16, 2020 | Glenn S. Gerstell

The Covid-19 pandemic has focused attention on the potential conflict between public health monitoring and technology-fueled surveillance. Glenn Gerstell examines the issues to be considered as the fight to stop the spread of the virus continues.

Commentary
Will Covid-19 End the Age of Mass Protests?
April 7, 2020 | Samuel Brannen There is strong reason to believe that once the Covid-19 pandemic ebbs, there will be a new surge of global protests—perhaps even greater in scale and political consequence than those of 2019.

Commentary
Venezuela Needs Help to Combat COVID-19
March 20, 2020 | Moises Rendon While Venezuelans brace themselves for the COVID-19, the international community must stay engaged. Without swift, coordinated, and apolitical international assistance, the consequences of the virus can be catastrophic.

Critical Questions
The UN Climate Change Report: Transform Global Food Systems or Trigger a Crisis
August 12, 2019 | Kimberly Flowers, Sarah Ladislaw

The combination of climate change and unsustainable land use has put our global food supply at risk. In this Critical Questions, two CSIS experts break down a recent UN report that sounds the alarm on these destabilizing trends.

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