Policy Alert #208 | May 11, 2020 As the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, debate over the pandemic’s effects on the world order have started to…
Continue reading Revisiting the World Order under a Pandemic
Type: Policy Alerts
Policy Alerts inform U.S. policymakers and media professionals of the ongoing debates in Brazil, China, India, Japan, South Korea, and Russia on current issues and events relevant to American foreign policy.
Policy Alert #207 | April 8, 2020 As the number of confirmed coronavirus COVID-19 cases worldwide surges past the one million mark, containing the pandemic…
Continue reading Coronavirus Tightens Its Grip on Rising Powers
Policy Alert #206 | March 23, 2020 In response to reduced demand for oil due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting…
Continue reading The Oil Price War between Russia and OPEC Rages On In the Midst of War on COVID-19
Policy Alert #205 | March 12, 2020 With the 2020 presidential election cycle in the United States underway, even the media in the Rising Powers…
Continue reading US Democratic Primary Spills into Rising Powers
Policy Alert #204 | February 28, 2020 On February 24-25th, US President Donald Trump made his first visit to India, where he was welcomed by…
Continue reading Lights, Cameras, and Little Action at Modi-Trump Meeting
Policy Alert #203 | February 14, 2020 An outbreak of novel coronavirus, now classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as COVID-19, began in Hubei…
Continue reading Rising Powers’ Politics Not Stopped by Coronavirus (Yet)
Policy Alert #202 | January 31, 2020 Officials from governments around the world, business leaders, environmental activists, and social media influencers converged in Davos, Switzerland…
Policy Alert #201 | January 13, 2020 The New Year began with an attack on the United States embassy in Baghdad on New Year’s Eve…
Continue reading Rising Powers Rattled by Eruption of Conflict in the Middle East
Policy Alert #200 | December 30, 2019 The year 2019 was a tumultuous one for the Rising Powers. China and the United States waged a…
Policy Alert #199 | November 21, 2019 November 13-14, 2019, heads of state from Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa gathered in Brasilia for…
Policy Alert #198 | November 8, 2019 On November 4, 2019, at the 35th ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Summit in Bangkok, Thailand, representatives…
Policy Alert #197 | October 30, 2019 The Syria-Turkey border crisis triggered by the US continues to create political reverberations in the rising powers. On…
Continue reading US Withdrawal from Syria Reverberates in Rising Powers
Policy Alert #196 | October 18, 2019 The dates were announced late and the meeting was dubbed an informal summit, but on October 11-12, 2019,…
Policy Alert #196 | October 2, 2019 The 74th Assembly of the United Nations General Assembly opened on September 17, 2019, with the high-level debates…
Continue reading Rising Powers at UN Stand Together on Climate Change and Not on Much Else
Policy Alert #194 | September 20, 2019 On September 14, 2019, a large oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia was incapacitated in a drone attack.…
Continue reading Rising Powers Rattled by Attack on Saudi Oil Facility
