Mike Pompeo, God's Envoy
Alain Frachon | We have never seen an American Secretary of State link so closely politics and religion.
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Mike Pompeo et la main de Dieu
Alain Frachon | On n’avait jamais vu un chef de la diplomatie américaine mêlant aussi étroitement politique et religion.
China's Path to Net Zero
Eric Berglöf | China is aiming to halt the rise in its carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. If it succeeds, the country will have gone, in less than 40 years, from being the world’s largest CO2 emitter to bringing its emissions into balance.
Keeping the Focus on Low-Income Countries
Kristalina Georgevina and Sigrid Kaag | "Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the global economy is suffering its sharpest decline since the Great Depression. But while everybody is hurting, it is the world’s poorest countries will pay the highest price unless they receive more help."
Crafting a Diplomacy-First US Foreign Policy
Anne-Marie Slaughter and Alexandra Stark | Rebuilding America’s treaties and alliances will be a welcome development after four years of President Donald Trump’s transactional approach to the world.
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Hanging Together or Hanging Separately?
Alan Wolff |It is only by working together that we can be the architects of our future. Otherwise, we will be its victims.
Europe and China Take the Climate Reins
Laurence Tubiana | Even though the US has spent the last four years undermining multilateral institutions, international cooperation is still possible and continues to offer profound benefits for those who engage in it.
Populism after Trump: Can be Defeated
Philippe Legrain | Before he was US president, Donald Trump built a reality-television persona on the catchphrase, “You’re fired.” Now, the American people have fired him. And Trump’s defeat has also dealt a devastating blow to nationalist populists in Europe and elsewhere. Might it prove lethal?
The United Nations at 75:Multilateralism at a Crossroads
Antonio Patriota | If the UN survived the Cold War and a later unipolarity, shouldn’t it be thriving in a multipolar world?
Rethinking Resilience in Business
Keryn James and Peter Bakker | The pandemic has revealed vulnerabilities in public-health systems and social safety nets. Clearly, our societies and economies are not nearly as resilient as we had believed.