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Promote and Build: A Strategic Approach to Digital Authoritarianism
October 15, 2020 | Erol Yayboke, Samuel Brannen Digital authoritarianism transcends boundaries while subverting human rights and democratic principles. This brief presents a strategic approach grounded in fundamental principles and framed around promoting resilience while building affirmative alternatives.

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Middle East Notes and Comment: Covid-19, the Iranians, and Us
July 21, 2020 Just a few months ago, experts were predicting that the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran was falling prey to its own demons.

Commentary
Covid-19’s ‘Politics of Humiliation’: A Chance for the US to Lead—or to Lose Control
June 1, 2020 | Jon B. Alterman Jon Alterman discusses Covid-19’s ‘politics of humiliation’ at home and abroad, and the United States’ opportunity to meet the challenge of global leadership.
 

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World Order after Covid-19
May 28, 2020 | Samuel Brannen, Seth G. Jones, Rebecca Hersman, Todd Harrison Scholars from the CSIS International Security Program offer their assessment of how Covid-19 will reshape geopolitics over the next decade and beyond.

Commentary
Assad Attempts to Weaponize COVID-19 in Syria
May 27, 2020 | Will Todman Will Todman argues that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is weaponizing COVID-19 to help win his civil war.

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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 In doing so, it has withdrawn from any meaningful leadership role in the international response to Covid-19.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.

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Strengths and Vulnerabilities in Southeast Asia’s response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
April 20, 2020 | Amy Searight

Southeast Asia has been hit hard by the novel coronavirus, with a surge of new cases over the past week. CSIS’s Amy Searight provides an update on the public health impact of Covid-19 in the region and the steps that governments are taking to deal with the crisis.

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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
Seeking a Path to Europe, Refugees and Migrants Ultimately Turned Back by Covid-19
April 2, 2020 | Erol Yayboke, Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. Confrontations between Greek forces and thousands trying to enter Europe erupted after Turkey opened its side of the border to refugees. Temporary resolution came only as fears of the spread of Covid-19 forced the refugees to return to other parts of Turkey.

Commentary
NATO Responds to the Covid-19 Pandemic
April 2, 2020 | Rachel Ellehuus

At today’s NATO foreign ministerial, allies will have to address both continuity of operations and the Covid-19 crisis in a way that will test NATO’s unity, capabilities, and resilience.

Commentary
Putin and the COVID Crisis: Instability as Opportunity
March 31, 2020 | Rachel Ellehuus As COVID-19 ravages the world, Vladimir Putin has been proactive in exploiting the crisis both at home and abroad.

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