If the international community does not respond to the coronavirus pandemic by creating new global structures to deal with such outbreaks in the future, it will be guilty of criminal neglect.
It is not just cities, but also their local and global supply chains, travel networks, airports and specific neighborhoods that are sources of contagion.
Viruses don't carry passports, and when they are as easily transmitted between humans as the novel coronavirus, they are going to spread around the world.
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty has mostly succeeded in keeping more countries out of the nuclear club. But as U.S. alliances fray, its future success is not assured.
The alliance between the United States and Europe is broken. That much became clear over three days of intensive discussions in Munich in February 2020.
