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Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): Afghanistan, India, Pakistan

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Inequality, Lockdown, and COVID-19: Unequal Societies Struggle to Contain the Virus

There is nothing equal about COVID-19. It is now well established that poor and underprivileged social groups have absorbed most of the pandemic’s negative impact. However, the connection between COVID-19 and inequality might run even deeper. During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, one additional point of the Gini coefficient correlated with a 1.34 percentage point higher rate of weekly new infections across countries. This difference in infection rates compounds like interest every week.

Publication Date: Apr 13, 2021

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Paul Von Chamier

Region/Country: Central Asia, East Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, United States, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, West Africa

Topic(s): Global Governance, Humanitarian Crises

Program(s): Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Reimagining U.S. Asia Policy for a Peaceful Afghanistan

This policy paper by Barnett Rubin, Senior Fellow at CIC examines how the Afghan peace process provides the United States with an opportunity to pivot to a strategy that frees it from dependence on military bases in the landlocked backyard of Russia and China, and how that can provide it with an entry point to an expanded and more effective Asia policy focused on some of the most vital threats confronting humanity.

Publication Date: Jan 06, 2021

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Barnett Rubin

Region/Country: Central Asia, East Asia, United States, South Asia, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan

Topic(s): Afghanistan, South Asia

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Technology and the Future of Work

Recent decades have seen rapid increases in the use of robots and rapid advances in artificial intelligence, driven particularly by improvements in machine learning. From games like chess and Go to speech recognition and image recognition, machines have come to outperform humans in an expanding range of activities. This development has motivated many attempts to gauge the impact on the future of work for humans.

Publication Date: Dec 18, 2020

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Ian Goldin

Region/Country: East Asia, Europe, United States, South Asia, India

Topic(s): International Security, Transnational Threats

Program(s): Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

The Just Transition in Energy

With each new year of data, and each new intergovernmental report, it becomes harder to deny the scale and urgency of the energy transition required to prevent catastrophic anthropogenic climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urges countries to take action to prevent a rise in temperature by more than 1.5°C, and warns of catastrophic consequences of a rise above 2°C. Yet current policies and pledges fall far short of hitting these targets.

Publication Date: Dec 18, 2020

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Ian Goldin

Region/Country: China, East Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, United States, South Asia, India, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, West Africa

Topic(s): Crises, International Security

Program(s): Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

There Is Only One Way Out of Afghanistan

For Foreign Affairs, CIC senior fellow Barnett Rubin writes that the only way out of Afghanistan requires cooperation with regional powers.

Read the full column in Foreign Affairs here.

Publication Date: Dec 09, 2020

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Barnett Rubin

Region/Country: China, Central Asia, East Asia, Middle East, United States, South Asia, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): Afghanistan

The Battles That Can Cost South Asia the War Against COVID-19

In The Diplomat, CIC's Said Sabir Ibrahimi and Centre for Research and Information senior analyst Syed Mafiz Kamal examine the challenges that South Asia faces when fighting COVID-19.

"Given the lack of healthcare infrastructure and levels of poverty in South Asia, a greater number of people are at risk of contracting the coronavirus and dying from it or hunger," they write. "Actions need to focus on increasing the region’s testing capacity, raising awareness about physical distancing and hygiene, producing PPEs, and fighting hunger."

Publication Date: Apr 30, 2020

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Said Sabir Ibrahimi

Region/Country: South Asia

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): South Asia

CIC's Barnett Rubin Addresses Arria-Formula Meeting on Afghanistan at the Security Council

CIC, Barnett Rubin, Arria-Formula, Afghanistan

At the most recent Arria-formula meeting on Afghanistan on November 27, 2017, Barnett Rubin spoke on the importance of regional approaches in fostering development and peace. In his talk, Partners for Afghanistan: Linking Security, Development and Peace in the Central Asian Region.

Publication Date: Nov 28, 2017

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Barnett Rubin

Region/Country: China, Central Asia, South Asia, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan

Topic(s): Afghanistan, Pakistan, South Asia

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

President Trump Announces Afghanistan Strategy

U.S. President Donald Trump recently gave a speech on "the path forward" in Afghanistan and South Asia. President Trump ordered the deployment of about 4,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. The decision follows months of deliberation within the Trump administration, involving top military commanders, political advisers and even enlisted veterans of the nearly 16-year war.

Publication Date: Sep 08, 2017

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Barnett Rubin

Region/Country: South Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): Afghanistan, Pakistan, South Asia

Trump locks America into its forever war

There is surely no greater sign of the bankruptcy of U.S. foreign policy than its Afghanistan policy. After more than 15 years of war and the deployment of hundreds of thousands of troops, a new president entered the Oval Office poised to fundamentally change that policy. Within months he presented, with great fanfare, a continuation of the same.

Publication Date: Aug 24, 2017

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Barnett Rubin

Region/Country: United States, South Asia, Afghanistan

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): Afghanistan, South Asia