https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/1‑COVID-britain-book-review-preventable-GettyImages-1209024037.jpg A pedestrian passes artwork by the artist known as the Rebel Bear on a wall on Bath Street in Glasgow, England, in April 2020. Andrew Milligan/PA Images via Getty Images During a recent trip to London, I saw almost no one wearing a mask—except for American tourists, who were easily identifiable because they wore…
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/06/24/world/24Rwanda-Commonwealth3/24Rwanda-Commonwealth3-moth.jpg A summit of the organization that was born out of the embers of the British Empire is being held for the first time in the African country, but discussion of the host’s alleged abuses is conspicuously missing. KIGALI, Rwanda — Presidents, princes and prime ministers from across the world gathered on Friday in Kigali,…
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/S7ND6JdtoU43D5sEkZFwAs8aNos=/960x540/media/img/mt/2022/06/AP22161160480694/original.jpg As the golden light bled from the Los Angeles sky one evening last week, a mariachi band played at a rooftop cocktail party for corporate executives and government officials from a couple dozen countries. They had gathered on the eve of the Summit of the Americas, an every-few-years meeting that would begin in the…
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/zMtluiAZIEUvPPNmFGAk6gH0pxM=/960x540/media/img/mt/2022/05/GettyImages_1398264563/original.jpg If President Joe Biden’s trip to Asia—marked as it was by his comments on the defense of Taiwan, announcements on a proposed new regional trade pact, and meetings with leaders who exhibit similar levels of concern about a rising China—has shown the persistence of American global power, it has also revealed something of equal…
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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/05/05/us/politics/05dc-covid-diplo1-sub/05dc-covid-diplo1-sub-moth.jpg The antiviral pills, plentiful in the United States, are scarce overseas. Health groups and the White House want to expand access but face obstacles that evoke the H.I.V. epidemic. WASHINGTON — A devastating virus was laying waste to nations that lacked medicines available to Americans. The pills were patented and pricey. Poor countries lacked…
https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/NATO-Finland-Sweden-GettyImages-1237956930.jpg Finnish and Swedish opposition leaders traveled to Washington this week to meet with U.S. officials as their countries kick-start debates on joining NATO in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Petteri Orpo, the chair of Finland’s center-right National Coalition Party, and Ulf Kristersson, the leader of the opposition in Sweden’s parliament and head…
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/RK90WtBZS82fGj9xWhXyXNdrLSE=/960x540/filters:format(png)/media/img/mt/2022/04/Atl_le_pen_v1/original.png We live in a time of constant upheaval and infuriating inertia. Existential threats to Western democracy abound, but nothing seems to change. With new ideas and technologies transforming the ways we live and work, much of the public seems impatient, urging on change, while the rest demands control and protection. Amid such feverish division,…
https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Mali-Russia-Vladimir-Putin-France-Withdrawal-GettyImages-1238621287.jpg A man sits near a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin during a demonstration in Bamako, Mali, on Feb. 19, celebrating France’s announcement that it will withdraw its troops from the country. FLORENT VERGNES/AFP via Getty Images On March 30, as Russian forces continued their struggle to conquer Ukrainian cities, Russian arms suppliers delivered…
https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Cyril-Ramaphosa-GettyImages-1238570900.jpgWelcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: The United States calls for an investigation into atrocities in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, Gambia’s opposition party loses its majority in elections, and the trial of South Africa’s Jacob Zuma is delayed again. If you would like to receive Africa Brief in your inbox every Wednesday,…