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Foreign and security policy

A relationship without commitment

The US-Ukrainian Strategic Partnership is off to a wonky start. Only time will tell how effective the meeting between Biden and Zelensky really was

By Valerii Kalnysh

Reuters

Economy and ecology

Apocalypse or cooperation?

The perfect storm of Covid-19 and climate change will create more instability. But international cooperation can still avert the worst-case scenario

By Jayati Ghosh

Economy and ecology

Towards global progressiveness

In the 1970s, Global South countries wanted a ‘new international economic order’. Now, we need a new agenda for progressives in the 21st century

By Branko Milanović

Reuters

Economy and ecology

To tackle today's crises, we need transformative realism

Neither gradualism nor moral activism will solve today's major crises — from Covid-19 to climate breakdown. Instead, we need a broad social coalition

By Marc Saxer

Reuters

Foreign and security policy

Ukraine's African connection

With the fall of the Soviet Union, the once strong relations between Ukraine and African countries have come to a halt. It's time for a fresh start

By Andri Veselovsky

Reuters

Democracy and society

Global vaccination IX

The Philippines, Kazakhstan and the USA are trying to raise their vaccination rate. Some choose coercion while others are organising lotteries

By Vinzenz Huzel, Anja Wehler-Schöck, Christoph P. Mohr

Pexels

Work and digitalisation

How digitalisation can leave the poor behind

In the pandemic, governments created digital solutions for access to social support — a risk for those on the wrong side of the digital divide

By Laura Alfers

Reuters

Economy and ecology

We live in the era of system change

Our current way of doing politics has reached its limits: considering the tectonic societal shifts of our era, a transformative approach is necessary

By Markus Engels

Reuters

Democracy and society

Global vaccination VIII

In Mongolia and Uruguay, the pandemic has been a rollercoaster ride — but vaccination rates are high now. Tanzania however hasn't even started yet

By Niels Hegewisch, Elisabeth Bollrich, Dörte Wollrad

Reuters

Work and digitalisation

How unemployment kills

The pandemic has once more shown that the connection between economic hardship and unemployment has a direct effect on people's health

By Kate Pickett