Recent YaleGlobal Articles

Crises tend to identify leaders while exposing the strengths and weaknesses of organizations. The Covid-19 pandemic should have been a straightforward apolitical challenge, with societies rallying around the world’s top public health recommendations. Yet masks and social distancing have polarized...

The world confronts unsustainable population growth. Some researchers suggest that a population based on two people per arable hectare is sustainable, and with 1.6 million arable hectares, the planet can support 3.2 billion people, less than half the current population. The planet's population...

China and India are locked in a serious border crisis. Despite reports of reduced tensions amid negotiations in recent weeks, soldiers along the border in Galwan Valley clashed with hand-to-hand combat on June 16. India reported 20 dead along with unconfirmed casualties for China. Both sides have...

China has drafted a national security law for Hong Kong, and the US president announced plans to sanction China for ending the territory’s autonomous status. Details and motivation are unclear as Donald Trump demonstrates angst over the US trade imbalance with China and his administration’s...

To contain the spread of Covid-19, India’s prime minister announced a lockdown for 1.3 billion people as of March 25 with four-hour notice. For millions in India’s cities and towns, jobs vanished overnight, along with access to shelter and food. “The pandemic exposed precarious living conditions...

China’s aggression in the South China Sea poses an economic and security threat for nations with exclusive economic zones in that region along with their many trade partners. “To confront the danger, Vietnam openly begins cooperation with the Quad, ostensibly to manage the Covid-19 threat,”...

With the rapid spread of Covid-19, analysts feared the worst for Africa on both health and economic fronts. Africa can be resilient, maintains Eric Ekobor-Ackah Mochiah, 2019-20 Fox International Fellow at Yale University and a doctoral candidate at the Economics Department of University of Ghana....

The Chinese Communist Party relies on tone-setting exercises, designed to build appreciation for the authoritarian system and cast doubt on democratic systems. The country’s leaders seek international praise for their handling of the pandemic and reject criticism for delayed reporting and...

Individuals and communities have some control over the spread of Covid-19. “As many communities in Europe, Asia and the Americas take steps to restart economies, public health departments rely on contact tracing to identify and isolate cases and prevent new waves of infections,” reports YaleGlobal...