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May 15, 2020
Wilson Weekly

The Ball is in Kim Jong Un’s Court
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Asia Program Director Abraham Denmark observes that the complex tangle of domestic politics and global power in the U.S. and North Korea doesn’t mean that a major confrontation will emerge in 2020.



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The COVID-19 Response in El Salvador and Nicaragua: Two Sides of the Same Authoritarian Coin?
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Central America has been rocked by COVID-19. Yet two key nations in the region are taking different approaches to the outbreak. Will politics impact and imperil fragile public health systems?

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Misinformation, Disinformation, and COVID-19 in MENA

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The coronavirus pandemic is an immense challenge for MENA countries. Experts discuss how a regional “infodemic” of false narratives spread by social media has exacerbated this problem.


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Biodiversity Conservation Across Governance, Natural Resource Management and Politics

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Many of the knottiest conservation issues arise from intersections with governance. Discover how biodiversity conservationists are learning to “think and work politically” to find solutions.

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Where Deforestation and Disease Collide: Sustainability and COVID-19 in the Brazilian Amazon
A panel of regional experts discussed how the global pandemic’s effects in Brazil have coincided with higher rates of deforestation and an increased threat to the region’s indigenous communities.


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Ramadan in the Age of Pandemic: Islam and COVID-19

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COVID-19 and the future of North American borders (The Hill)
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In a co-authored piece, Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera predicts that “decisions on the movement of people, goods and ideas” across the continent’s borders “will become even more centralized and politicized.”

How to Lose (or Win) the Information War (The Open Mind) [
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Nina Jankowicz surveys the vast and varied battlefields of the disinformation war in U.S. and global politics, as well as a preview of her forthcoming book, How to Lose the Information War .

Who is 'us'? Thinking like North Americans in our pandemic response (The Hill) [
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Duncan Wood and Christopher Sands argue that “U.S. prosperity and national security” benefit when “collaboration with Mexico and Canada” is at the center of the process.

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