Planning for the World After the Coronavirus Pandemic

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CIC senior fellow David Steven and non-resident fellow Alex Evans co-authored a piece in World Politics Review about the need for collective global action in response to COVID–19.

“The outbreak has hit at a time when the international order’s immune system is badly compromised,” they write, calling for a shared global response not only to the public health emergency, but to the second-order social and economic impacts of the crisis.

Read the full article at World Politics Review here.

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