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Asia in 2020: The Covid-19 Pandemic and the U.S.-China Trade War

Mar 23 2021
We've removed the paywall from Asian Survey's annual year-in-review issue which looks back at the biggest stories concerning Asia in 2020, a year during which the COVID-19 pandemic and a trade dispute between the United States and China dominated the headlines. As the world continues to grapple with
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Who gets to govern the global economy?

Feb 09 2021
By Christy Thornton, author of Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global EconomyWho gets to govern the global economy? In the twentieth century, this was a key question for political figures and experts in law and economics, who came together repeatedly to design ins
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Post-pandemic Will the Poor Get Poorer?

Oct 29 2020
Anirudh KrishnaAnirudh Krishna’s essay “The Poorest After the Pandemic” is featured in Current History’s November special issue on the pandemic’s global ramifications. Krishna is the Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University. His research investigates
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