G20

Wed, Mar 10, 2021

How much money is the G20 spending?

Our new fiscal firepower heat map, updated through December, shows how G20 COVID-19 crisis spending now compares to the Global Financial Crisis. While nearly every country is deploying its fiscal firepower significantly more than a decade ago, China is still spending less.

EconoGraphics by GeoEconomics Center

Mon, Aug 17, 2020

Burrows and Manning in The National Interest: What happens when America is no longer the undisputed super power?

In the News by Atlantic Council

Wed, Jul 15, 2020

The G20 needs to do more to address the human toll of COVID-19

If the wealthy countries cannot support measures to stave off a humanitarian crisis, the damage will run deeper than the resurgence of hunger and disease. The political repercussions will take the shape of civil strife, extremism, and mass migration. The G20 will do irreparable damage to social cohesion and international cooperation if it fails to act decisively.

New Atlanticist by Jeremy Mark

Wed, Jul 15, 2020

United G20 must pave the way for robust post-COVID-19 recovery

The world is facing unprecedented health and economic crises that require a global solution. Governments have locked down their economies to contain the mounting death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic. With this response well underway, now is the time to move into a recovery effort.

Issue Brief by Phil Thornton

Tue, Jul 7, 2020

What world post-COVID-19? Three scenarios

This paper is a preliminary look at the geopolitical implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and sketches three scenarios for the possible direction of the global system post-COVID-19.

In-Depth Research & Reports by Mathew Burrows, Peter Engelke

Tue, May 5, 2020

Democratic solidarity and the road ahead

The United States needs to lead in devising both immediate and systemic responses to the coronavirus challenge, but not alone. Leadership means neither diktat nor incantation of old formulas. It means using American convening power to adapt tested principles to new challenges, crystalizing friends and allies—transatlantic, transpacific and not forgetting hemispheric—around a common agenda.

New Atlanticist by Ana Palacio and Daniel Fried

Fri, Apr 24, 2020

What the world can learn from regional responses to COVID-19

Regional integration projects around the world could be the first step to help countries jointly meet the challenges of COVID-19. In recent weeks we have witnessed many of them coming together to establish collective measures.

New Atlanticist by Anastasia Kalinina

Wed, Apr 22, 2020

The role of tech, data, and leadership in pandemic geopolitics and recovery post-COVID

On April 22, 2020, Vint Cerf, Sue Gordon, Melissa Flagg, and Terry Halvorsen participated in a Webit virtual panel titled "Pandemic geopolitics and recovery post-COVID," moderated by David Bray, the Director of the Atlantic Council's GeoTech Center, on the role of tech, data, and leadership in the global response to and recovery from COVID-19.

In the News by Atlantic Council