Stan Grant, ABC News Online: Coronavirus has sped up changes to global order and sovereignty is making a comeback
According to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, sovereignty is in, ideology is out. Well, he is half right.
Sovereignty is certainly making a comeback. End of ideology? Not so fast.
Let's deal first with sovereignty.
The coronavirus crisis has only hastened what was already underway.
What is known as the global liberal order has endured a blowback in recent years, with a renewed emphasis on sovereignty leading to a more assertive nationalism.
Thirty years since American political scientist Francis Fukuyama declared "the end of history" — the triumph of liberal democracy over communism ushering in an ascendant global capitalism — history has most definitely returned.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- April 13, 2020
The New Metrics for Building Geopolitical Power in a New World -- Emily de La Bruyere, National Interest
How China Deceived the WHO -- Kathy Gilsinan, The Atlantic
How the world battled the 1918 flu pandemic -- DW
The coronavirus collapse is upon us -- Eswar Prasad and Ethan Wu, Brookings
Coronavirus is accelerating the advance of nationalism over globalization -- William Moloney, The Hill
America Needs an American Pandemic Strategy -- Audrey Kurth Cronin Patrick M. Cronin, National Interest
Coronavirus upends Putin’s political agenda in Russia -- Daria Litvinova, AP
Inside Macron’s Coronavirus War -- Rym Momtaz, Politico EU
How China Deceived the WHO -- Kathy Gilsinan, The Atlantic
Iran’s Political Pandemic -- Hiva Feizi & Jason Brodsky, Radio Farda
Saudi Arabia wants out of Yemen -- Bruce Riedel, Brookings
Saudi Arabia is preparing to end the war in Yemen -- Imad K Harb, Al Jazeera
