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Apr 21, 2020

Riaz in Dorpon News: Five Obvious Lessons from COVID-19

By Atlantic Council

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GeoTech Cues

Apr 21, 2020

Earth Day 2020 call for action: Mitigating the global food crises associated with COVID-19

By Sara-Jayne Terp, Sahil Shah (Guest Author), and Molly Jahn (Guest Author)

At the beginning of April, the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center published an data-driven analysis examining “Global food security during COVID-19”. This follow-up report dives into three specific food security concerns informed by that data and presents three solutions that world leaders can implement now to get ahead of the negative impacts of COVID-19 on the global food supply.

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In the News

Apr 21, 2020

Robert Manning in The Hill about the Coronavirus’ impact on China’s influence

By Atlantic Council

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In the News

Apr 21, 2020

Cohen in Newsweek: Pandemic or not, the US can’t afford to drop the ball on peace in Afghanistan

By Atlantic Council

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In the News

Apr 21, 2020

Hruby in the Africa Report: Africa’s innovators vs the virus

By Atlantic Council

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New Atlanticist

Apr 21, 2020

The 5×5—On viral infections online and in the real world

By Simon Handler

Cybersecurity often gets reduced to breaches and hacking, but the world has witnessed multiple pandemics in cyberspace and could learn more about response to exponential events.

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In the News

Apr 21, 2020

Kadhim quoted in the New York Times on anti-Iranian sentiment in Iraq

By Atlantic Council

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EnergySource

Apr 21, 2020

In the wake of a pandemic: Coronavirus impacts on clean energy and climate action

By Zachary Strauss

Amid the haze of uncertainty wrought from coronavirus and oil market fallout, clean energy actors will not take a backseat as the world evolves. As the status quo dissolves before a global crisis, and fossil energy markets grow increasingly volatile, renewables and clean tech have an opportunity to chart a new path forward amid the recovery.

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UkraineAlert

Apr 21, 2020

Coronavirus proves what Ukrainians already knew—the UN doesn’t work

By Pavlo Klimkin and Andreas Umland

The coronavirus crisis has left the United Nations badly exposed. This has not come as a surprise to many in Ukraine, where distrust of the UN has been strong since the start of Russian aggression in 2014.

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The future is here

Apr 21, 2020

Italy, Iran on path to ease restrictions; Trump plans immigration halt citing jobs

By Atlantic Council

Countries including Italy and Iran set out plans to ease coronavirus restrictions. US President Donald J. Trump said he plans to sign an executive order to halt immigration temporarily to protect jobs. Georgia’s plans to reopen businesses highlighted tensions around a tentative return to normality.

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