On May 3, 2017, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) co-hosted a half day meeting exploring how the Trump and Abe Administrations can...
A non-governmental organization (NGO) that is critical of the government’s actions in the country at hand receives a letter from the local tax office, indicating that its public-benefit status has been revoked on the grounds of its involvement in political...
Yellow fever—a mosquito-borne virus that can cause fever, chills, muscle aches, headaches, and (in serious cases) bleeding, organ failure, and death—has long been endemic to Brazil. First brought to the Americas from Africa in the 1600s during the slave trade,...
In late May, a small team from the CSIS Global Health Policy Center traveled to Brazil to research Brazilian approaches to protecting health in emergency situations. With the 5th greatest landmass, the 5th largest population, and the 9th largest economy in the world,...
The presidential election appears to have been just the beginning. Yesterday’s French legislative elections was the coup de grace. France’s two traditional parties – the Socialist Party and Les...
Among the pressing issues facing incoming World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus when he begins his term July 1 is the winding down of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). The polio program comprises 27 percent of total...
India’s chronic shortage of health workers is one of the biggest barriers to improving access to quality health services. The problem is particularly acute in rural areas, where more than 70 percent of Indians still live. In Uttar Pradesh (UP), India’s largest...
The mantra “civic space” is continuing to garner immense popularity on the African continent, especially within human rights communities, as the fundamental rights of citizens are seriously under threat. Citizens’ groups are fighting back to recover and expand...
This move fits into the general political trajectory of Hungary. Since his re-election as Prime Minister in 2014, Viktor Orbán has turned his back on the West and pursued a decidedly
On May 7, 2017, centrist Emmanuel Macron was elected as the next president of France and sworn in on May 14 as the youngest French president since Napoléon Bonaparte. Macron beat far-right Marine Le Pen
