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Burrows joins MSNBC to discuss the global lack of preparedness for pandemics

Director of the Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative, Mathew Burrows, joins MSNBC with Chuck Todd to discuss the lack of pandemic preparation throughout the US and around the world.

McLeod in Foreign Affairs: Building a Resilient Planet

The conventional wisdom holds that climate change is a problem for international organizations, big governments, and global corporations to solve. Only those major players can make a dent in global greenhouse gas emissions, the thinking goes, and only they can pool the necessary resources. Given the monumental scale of the coming climate crisis, anything short of […]

Jain in Foreign Policy: Trump Just Missed a Perfect Opportunity to Reassert American Leadership

Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump missed an opportunity to establish the United States as a global leader in the coronavirus crisis. At the March 26 virtual summit of the G-20, the leaders of 19 of the world’s most powerful nations plus the European Union met by videoconference to lay out a global response to […]

Tran in The Financial Times: Coronavirus and debt: a toxic mix

The spread of the coronavirus is likely to tilt 2020 global economic growth below the OECD’s base-case estimate of 2.4 per cent (already below the 2.5 per cent threshold marking a global recession) towards its worst-case estimate of 1.5 per cent. This disease-induced shock to supply and demand could not have come at a worse […]

Cloen and Nooruddin in The Washington Post’s “Monkey Cage”: The US-India trade deal fell through. What happens now?

By Atlantic Council

Wechsler and Fontenrose in The Washington Post: How US allies in the Gulf can help prevent an Iranian October surprise

As the 2020 US presidential election ramps up, the Atlantic Council's Kirsten Fontenrose and William Wechsler write in The Washington Post on the threat of an October surprise from Iran.

Herbst dives deep on US-Ukraine relations on NPR’s WorldAffairs

By John E. Herbst

Former ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst joins NPR's WorldAffairs to break down why US-Ukraine relations are vital and the complicated history behind them.

Fried joins NPR All Things Considered to discuss Pompeo’s visit to Minsk

By Atlantic Council

Amb. Daniel Fried speaks to Michele Kelemen on NPR's All Things Considered regarding Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to Belarus, and the Trump Administration's quest to improve relations with the former Soviet republic.

Kempe joins BBC World News to discuss the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos

By Atlantic Council

Cohen speaks to CNBC about Putin’s constitutional shakeup

By Atlantic Council

As Russian prime minister Dmitri Medvedev handed in his resignation on January 16, Dr. Ariel Cohen, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, speaks to CNBC about what Putin’s recent proposed constitutional shakeup means for Russia’s future political landscape. Related reading More about our expert