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The new empty argument against trade

If anything, the current crisis offers powerful evidence of why we need global supply chains and widely distributed production

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Progressives need to imagine a better post-corona world

If progressives want to shape the post-corona world, they need to express not just what they dislike, but also what they want

By Jan Beránek

Reuters

Global Quarantine XII

Will Covid-19 bring down neoliberalism? That's the central political struggle in countries like Austria, Chile and Georgia

By Reinhard Krumm and Simone Reperger and Felix Hett

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Global Quarantine XI

Covid-19 exacerbates inequality, but can also ease existing tensions. Dispatches from Russia, Cameroon and the Philippines

By Peer Teschendorf and Nina Netzer and Johannes Kadura

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It’s a virus and this isn’t a war

The coronavirus crisis is a social challenge, which the formerly secure are now being reminded is hitting the poor hardest

By Karin Pettersson

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Global Quarantine X

International cooperation is under pressure in the corona pandemic. The G20, UN and IMF are bucking the trend

By Jochen Steinhilber and Bettina Luise Rürup and Elisabeth Bollrich

Reuters

Global Quarantine IX

In the corona crisis, a strong welfare state can prevent the worst. Latvia, Honduras, and Guatemala however are struggling

By Peer Krumrey and Ingrid Ross

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The global data divide

The coronavirus is driving digitalisation – which will likely hurt the Global South. And the EU isn't entirely innocent

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The international order after Covid-19

Crises tend to intensify and accelerate preexisting trends – in this case, the rise of anti-globalist nativism

By Robert Malley

Reuters

Global Quarantine VIII

Romania, Pakistan and Bolivia have to fight against the pandemic and its devastating social consequences at the same time

By Juliane Schulte and Jochen Hippler and Jan Souverein