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MAY 22, 2020 Journal Online Exclusive

Justifying Lockdown

Throughout most of the world, significant restrictions have been placed on freedoms to move about, to associate in public, and to be in many public ...

Langdon Ogburn presents at Carnegie Council's sixth annual Student Research Conference.

MAY 18, 2020 Article

Drones and Warfare, with R. Langdon Ogburn

On May 8, 2020, R. Langdon Ogburn's presentation on "Drones and Warfare" was selected as the winner of Carnegie Council's sixth annual Student Research Conference. Afterwards, Carnegie ...

MAY 12, 2020 Journal Online Exclusive

Inequality and Austerity: Our Weak Links in Countering COVID-19

There are weeks where decades happen. These are those weeks. COVID-19 has shaken the whole world. Established orthodoxies have disappeared overnight. Our ways of living ...

Aid packages from China are unloaded at the Villamor Air Base in Pasay City, Philippines on March 21, 2020. CREDIT: <a href=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:China_COVID19_test_kit_PH_donation_7.jpg> Philippines Presidential Communications Operations Office (CC)</a>.

MAY 7, 2020 Article

China's Changing Role in the Pandemic-Driven World: A Dove's Perspective

What do China's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and U.S. reactions to China inform us about the relations between these two major powers? Is ...

Kutupalong Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. CREDIT: <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kutupalong_Refugee_Camp_(Maaz_Hussain-VOA).jpg>Maaz Hussain (CC)</a>.

APR 23, 2020 Article

Facing a Pandemic in the Dark: An Update on Cox's Bazar & COVID-19, with Razia Sultana

Three weeks ago, Razia Sultana, a Rohingya lawyer and activist, wrote an article for the Carnegie Council website about how over 1 million Rohingya refugees living ...

Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, April 2020. CREDIT: <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Soldier_SupportU.S._Army_Reserve_Urban_Augmentation_Medical_Task_Force_Soldiers_board_buses_at_Joint_Base_McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst,_New_Jersey.jpg>Staff Sgt. Shawn Morris (CC)</a>

APR 21, 2020 Article

Further on Pandemics, Solidarity, & Narratives

Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev reflects on the erosion of solidarity between nations admidst the COVID-19 pandemic. What will a "new normal" in world affairs look ...

APR 20, 2020 Journal Online Exclusive

Further on Pandemics, Solidarity and Narratives

Senator Bernie Sanders in Phoenix, Arizona, March 2020. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/49625737102/">Gage Skidmore</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">(CC)</a>

APR 10, 2020 Article

Senator Sanders Departs . . . But What of His Foreign Policy Narrative?

Senator Bernie Sanders has ended his campaign for the 2020 presidency, but his influence will live on, writes Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev. Joe Biden has pledged ...

APR 9, 2020 Journal Online Exclusive

Senator Sanders Departs ... But What of His Foreign Policy Narrative?

European Parliament in session, February 2020. CREDIT: <a href=https://flickr.com/photos/european_parliament/49524887688/in/album-72157713053981602/>European Union (CC)</a>.

APR 8, 2020 Article

COVID-19: Eroding the Ethics of Solidarity?

"Solidarity is easy when there is no perceived cost or major sacrifice entailed," writes Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev. How has the COVID-19 pandemic stress-tested the ...