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World Review: Munich Security Conference, Afghanistan, Turkey

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World Review with Ivo Daalder

Ivo Daalder, Steven Erlanger, Susan Glasser, and Philip Stephens examine the week's most important global affairs news.

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Global Politics

Global Public Opinion Shows Partial Return to Normalcy, Optimism

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Running Numbers by Coauthors

COVID-19 cases are on the decline worldwide and in some countries, people are feeling hopeful as they recover aspects of their pre-COVID lives. 

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Will India's Farmers Rein in Modi's Power?

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Sumit Ganguly and Surupa Gupta join Brian Hanson to discuss the impact of widespread protests to reform the agricultural sector.

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Food and Agriculture

Using Cutting-Edge Science to Protect African Farmers' Potato Crops, Incomes, and Food Security

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Global Food for Thought by Coauthors

Guest authors Chris Kennedy and Bob Easter examine how a collaborative effort to bring a disease-resistant potato variety to market in Africa can promote global food security.

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World Review: Myanmar Protests, Biden on China, Iran

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World Review with Ivo Daalder

Ivo Daalder, Karen DeYoung, Bobby Ghosh, and Matt Kaminksi examine the week's most important global affairs news.

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Global Politics

When Allies Go Nuclear

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Foreign Affairs
Coauthors

Chuck Hagel, Malcolm Rifkind, Kevin Rudd, and Ivo Daalder, cochairs of a Council task force, offer recommendations on how to prevent nuclear proliferation and reassure America's allies.

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Defense and Security

Myanmar's Democratic Transition is Failing. What Now?

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Last week the Burmese military took control of the country, ousting democratically-elected leaders. Christina Fink and Debra Eisenman join host Brian Hanson on Deep Dish to discuss.

Protestors take to the streets in Yangon to protest a military coup.
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Global Politics

How America and Democracies Around the World Can Defeat Illiberalism

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The National Interest
Michele Lowe

America should view its many threats as a collective advance of illiberalism acting against the post-World War II democratically led, rules-based world order.

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Partisanship Divides Americans on COVID-19 Vaccine Information

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Running Numbers by Craig Kafura

Most Americans trust the information they receive from medical experts, distrust what they see on social media, and there is a partisan divide on trusting information from the US government and media.

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Sam Moqadam
Public Opinion

Biden's Top Challenge Abroad Is Something No One Wants to Talk About

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The New York Times
Steven Erlanger

Steven Erlanger discusses the new era of nuclear threat facing the Biden administration.

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