Opening Up the Order: A More Inclusive International System

When the world looks back on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, one lesson it will draw is the value of competent national governments—the kind that imposed social-distancing restrictions, delivered clear public health messaging, and implemented testing and contact tracing.

Chinese advances in Chile

For more than twenty years, successive Chilean governments, on both the right and the left, have sought to integrate their country, with its back to the Andes mountains, into the Pacific rim’s flourishing economy.

Women Leading Countries? That’s So Next Century.

As of February 2021, women serve as elected heads of state or government in just 21 countries. Furthermore, 119 nations have never once elected a female. Contextualized with the current count of 193 recognized nations of the globe, one could infer that the world remains uncomfortable at best with female leadership. At this current rate, gender parity won’t be reached for another 130 years.