Apart from China, Italy has received aid from Russia and Cuba, making a risky geopolitical move in the European context The global spreading of the virus is putting under stress the big ally of the Union, the United States, which is demonstrating its lack of an efficient social health care [...]
Security forces enforcing the lockdown in parts of Nigeria have killed more people than coronavirus itself, a local rights group says. Coronavirus: Security forces kill more Nigerians than Covid-19 Evidence of the killings comes from members of the public who rang their hotline or sent [...]
The pandemic induced bilateral spat between the two most powerful countries in the world comes amid the unfinished business of the trade war. COVID-19 Will Make the US-China Great Power Dynamics More Confrontational As the Trump administration’s first term comes to a close and the [...]
Concerns over the abuse of surveillance power by some countries has even been highlighted by the World Health Organization itself The response of EU countries to the coronavirus outbreak has prompted unprecedented levels of surveillance, data exploitation, and misinformation. Data collection can be essential to understand and [...]
Governments have spent trillions on preparing for military threats created by their own policies. No one prioritised human and societal security. The unique over-reaction to COVID-19 should worry us much more than the virus itself. It can be seen as a panicky attempt to cover-up the failure of an outdated [...]
The coronavirus crisis is severely impacting European Union member states’ medical sector, economy, national welfare systems and societies in general. Post-Corona Europe: Challenges from the Far East The coronavirus crisis is severely impacting European Union member states’ medical sector, economy, national welfare systems and societies [...]
The Water, Peace and Security Partnership can help address these threats The Coronavirus Pandemic Will Impact Global Security A perfect storm of poverty, growing natural resource scarcity, and pandemic may lead to the collapse of already fragile states, but also severely impact many others. The current coronavirus (COVID-19) [...]
Nuclear war was the great fear of the 20th century and our institutions were built to respond to such threats. But Covid-19 has shown the world’s defence experts that we were blind Coronavirus has changed the future of national security forever. Here’s how Today, the [...]
The coronavirus outbreak has deepened Algeria’s legitimacy crisis. This could easily become a crisis between the state and Algerians, leading to a radical revolt. But it has also given Hirak the opportunity to think about new forms of peaceful struggle and the possibility of providing an alternative to the system. [...]
The coronavirus crisis, and its accompanying recession, will bring about a new political and economic order – but it remains to be seen whether the Left can rise to the historical moment. Coronavirus Is the End of the End of History In 1989, the American [...]
