Disclaimer: This section features a selection of noteworthy analysis and forecasts which reflect the opinions of their authors. They do not necessarily reflect those of the Foundation for a World in Transition, nor of its members. The Foundation encourages the open exchange of opinion amongst its members yet does not take any institutional position.
 
WTH is going on with the Coronavirus relief package?
With Dr. Michael Strain
American Entreprise Institute, What the Hell is Going On - March 26, 2020

Modesty and Tragedy: How to Think about Coronavirus
With Victor Davis Hanson
Hoover Institution - The Classicist - March 26, 2020
 
The Geopolitics of the Coronavirus
With Michael Doran, Peter Rough & John Lee
Hudson Institute, The Realignment - March 26, 2020
 
Coronavirus Crisis: Talking the Pandemic’s Effects on Asian Geopolitics
With Dr. Evan Meideros
Center for Strategic and International Studies, The Asia Chess Board - March 26, 2020
 
The Plague and the Peloponnesian War
With Pr. Neville Morley
War on the Rocks - March 23, 2020
 
Coronavirus: Were We Warned? Plus US-China Relations
With Dr. Peter Piot & David M. Lampton
World Affairs Council - March 21, 2020
 
COVID-19: U.S. Economy and Supply Chains
With Scott Miller, Bill Reinsch, & Andrew Schwartz
Center for Strategic and International Studies, The Trade Guys - March 20, 2020
 
Coronavirus Public Health Impact; “Flatten the Curve” Strategies in China and the U.S.
With Dr. Elanah Uretsky
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations - March 19, 2020
 
Law, Economics and Coronavirus
With Richard Epstein
Hoover Institution, The Libertarian - March 19, 2020
 
Plagues, Ancient and Modern
With Victor Davis Hanson
Hoover Institution, The Classicist - March 19, 2020
 
COVID-19: Testing the U.S.
With Heather Conley, Stephanie Segal, Steve Morrison & Andrew Schwartz
Center for Strategic and International Studies, The Truth of the Matter - March 19, 2020
 
What Can the U.S. Do to Support the COVD-19 Response?
With Dr. Ryan Burke
Modern War Institute at West Point - March 19, 2020
 
The Coronavirus Pandemic & International Relations
With Nikolas Gvosdev
Carnegie Council - March 18, 2020
 
The Coronavirus and China’s Grip on America’s Supply Chain
With Tim Morisson
Hudson Institute, The Realignment - March 17, 2020
 
The Coronavirus Pandemic
With Tom Bollyky
Council on Foreign Relations, The President’s Inbox - March 17, 2020
 
Coronavirus Social Impact: facing Outbreak Together through Civic Engagement in China
With Pr. Bin Xu
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations - March 16, 2020
 
WTH is coronavirus doing to the economy? Discussing the coming corona-recession and US economic dependence on China
With Derek Scissors
American Enterprise Institute, What the Hell is Going On - March 16, 2020
 
How Taiwan Contained COVID 19
With Deb Amos, Michele Kelemen & Ray Suarez
World Affairs Council - May 14, 2020

The Economic Impact of the Coronavirus
With Kevin Rudd
Asia Society Policy Institute, Asia in Depth - March 12, 2020
 
Coping with Coronavirus
With Richard Epstein
Hoover Institution, The Libertarian - March 12, 2020
 
How should schools prepare for a coronavirus outbreak?
With Caitlin M. Rivers, Daniel A. Domenech, & Michael Hansen
Brookings Institution - March 12, 2020
 
Italy Total Lockdown?
With Heather Conley, Steve Morrison, & Andrew Schwartz
Center for Strategic and International Studies, The Truth of the Matter - March 11, 2020
 
Coronavirus: The Lesson From China
With Bruce Aylward
Asia Society Policy Institute, Asia in Depth - March 9, 2020
 
Coronavirus: Bracing for a Global Pandemic
With Larry Brilliant, Laurie Garrett, Rafael Suarez, Christopher Livesay, & Peter Kenyon
World Affairs Council - May 7, 2020
 
WTH is going on with the coronavirus? How dictators drive disaster from Chernobyl to Wuhan
With Yaroslav Trofimov
American Enterprise Institute, What the Hell is Going On - March 4, 2020
 
Coronavirus, Pandemics, and the Law
With Richard Epstein
Hoover Institution, The Libertarian - February 27, 2020
 
COVID-19: New Reality
With Steve Morrison, Jude Blanchette, Stephanie Segal, & Andrew Schwartz
Center for Strategic and International Studies, The Truth of the Matter - February 27, 2020
 
Coronavirus
With Peter Brookes
Heritage Foundation, Heritage Explains - February 21, 2020
 
Containg Coronavirus: Challenges to Thwarting the Outbreak
With Dr. Daniel Chertow, Dr. Julie Gerberding, Dr. William Karesh, Tim Morrison, Lewis Libby, & Senator Joe Lieberman
Hudson Institute - February 10, 2020
 
Coronavirus: Life at the Epicenter
With Muyi Xiao
Asia Society Policy Institute, Asia in Depth - February 5, 2020
 
Understanding China’s Coronavirus Crisis
With Dr. Thomas Inglesby
Asia Society Policy Institute, Asia in Depth - January 31, 2020
 
Trade Health
With Andrew Schwartz
Center for Strategic and International Studies, The Trade Guys - March 26, 2020
 
Responsible AI & the COVID-19 Pandemic
With Rumman Chowdhury
Carnegie Council - March 26, 2020
 
Coronavirus: The Impact on China’s Economy, Politics and Relations with the United States
With The Hon. Kevin Rudd
Asia Society, Asia in Depth - March 26, 2020
 
America’s Role in the World Amid a Pandemic
With Michelle Flournoy
Hudson Institute - March 26, 2020
 
What the U.S. Can Learn from the global Response to COVID-19
With Ryan Heath
Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Deep Dish - March 26, 2020
 
The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Middle East
With Paul Salem, Khaled Elgindy, Fatima Abo Alasrar & Alistair Taylor
Middle East Institute, Middle East Focus - March 27, 2020
 
Perspective on the Pandemic
With Europe Program
George Marshall Fund of the United States, Out of Order - March 27, 2020
 
The Corona Economy
With John B. Taylor
Hoover Institution, Uncommon Knowledge - March 28, 2020
 
COVID-19 Lessons from South Korea
With Dasl Yoon
Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Deep Dish - March 30, 2020
 
WTH happened with coronavirus testing?
With Alec Stapp
American Entreprise Institute - March 31, 2020
 
COVID-19 and the economy
With The Hon. Janet Yellen
Brookings Institution - March 31, 2020
 
Questioning Conventional Wisdom in the COVID-19 Crisis
With Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Hoover Institution, Uncommon Knowledge - March 31, 2020
 
Taiwan Digital Response to COVID-19
With Audrey Tang
Carnegie Council - March 31, 2020
 
Of Coronavirus in Central Asia
With Torokul Doorov & Aigerim Toleukhanova
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Russian Roulette - March 31, 2020
 
COVID-19 in North and South Korea
With Andrew Cha & Andrew Schwartz
Center for Strategic and International Studies, The Truth of the Matter - March 31, 2020
 
The Instability of Global Supply Chain
With Shannon K. O’Neill & James M. Lindsay
Council on Foreign Relations, The President’s Inbox - April 1, 2020
 
Recovery and Resilience in a Pandemic
With Richard Epstein
Hoover Institution, The Libertarian - April 2, 2020
 
COVID-19 in the Middle East: Iran in crisis and the risks for countries in conflict
With Mahsa Rouhi, Emile Hokayem & Meia Nouwens
International Institute for Strategic Studies, Sounds Strategic - April 2, 2020
 
Managing the COVID-!9 Economic Crisis
With Mervyn King, The Rt. Hon. The Lord King of Lothbury KG GBE
Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Deep Dish - April 2, 2020
 
From Selma to Shanghai: Coronavirus Around the World
With Victor Davis Hanson
Hoover Institution, The Classicist - April 3, 2020
 
How Iran and Turkey are Coping with COVID-19
With Gonul Tol & Alex Vatanka
Middle East Institute, Middle East Focus - April 3, 2020
 
The effects of the coronavirus outbreak on marginalized communities
With Rashawn Ray & Camille Busette
Brookings Institution - April 3, 2020
 
Fighting COVID-19: Experiences and lessons from the frontlines in Asia
With John R. Allen, Suzanne Maloney, Ryan Hass & Cheng Li
Brookings Institution - April 3, 2020
Coronavirus: How South Korea Flattened the Curve
With Jeongmin Kim & John Delury
Asia Society, Asia in Depth - April 3, 2020
 
WTH is the path out of this nightmare?
With Scott Gottlieb
American Enterprise Institute - April 6, 2020

The COVID-19 Crisis and the Implication for Iran
With Dr. Afshon Ostovar
Foreign Policy Research Institute, Middle East Brief - April 6, 2020

Le Coronavirus fera-t-il réélire Trump?
With Laurence Nardon
Policy Center for the New South - April 7, 2020

 

Trump, China, and the Geopolitics of a Crisis
With Peter Robinson & Stephen Kotkin
Hoover Institution, Uncommon Knowledge - April 7, 2020
 
Weighting in on the economic response to COVID-19
With Ben Bernanke
Brookings Institution - April 7, 202
 
The Coronavirus in the Middle East
With Stephen A. Cook
Council on Foreign Relations, The President’s Inbox - April 7, 2020
 
Of COVID-19 Measures—or lack thereof—in Russia
With Pr. Judy Twigg
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Russian Roulette - April 7, 2020
 
The Knowns and Unknowns of COVID-19
By Dr. David Agus
CBS News, Intelligence Matters - April 8, 2020
 
COVID-19 in Russia: Can Putin turn a crisis into an opportunity?
With Nigel Gould-Davies
International Institute for Strategic Studies, Sounds Strategic - April 9, 2020
 
On COVID-19 and the economy
With The Hon. Jerome Powell
Brookings Institution - April 9, 2020
 
The Coronavirus and Anti-Asian Racism
With Leesa Lin & Charlie Woo
Asia Society, Asia in Depth - April 10, 2020
 
Pandemic and the Fog of War
With Victor Davis Hanson
Hoover institution, The Classicist - April 10, 2020
 
Pandemic Playbook: How Beijing is Shaping its Own Story —and Learning from Moscow
With Laura Rosenberger & Zack Cooper
German Marshall Fund of the United States, Out of Order - April 10, 2020
 
The Economics of Lockdown
With John Cochrane, Anna Scherbina, & Emil Verner

Cato Institute - April 10, 2020
 
Surveillance, privacy & public health
With Michael Sexton & Eliza Campbell
Middle East Institute, Middle East Focus - April 10, 2020
 
Global Economic Prospects
With Karen Dynan, Olivier Blanchard & Martin Chorzempa
Peterson Institute - April 10, 2020
 
COVID-19 Lessons from Europe
With Steven Erlanger
Chicago Council on Global Affairs - April 10, 2020
 
Missing in Action: U.S.-China Cooperation on Coronavirus
With Evan Feigenbaum & Paul Haenle
Carnegie Tsinghua Center, China in the World - April 10, 2020
 
WTH is going on with the coronavirus economy?
With Glenn Hubbard
American Enterprise Institute, What the Hell is Going On - April 13, 2020
 
Coronavirus and the Constitution
With Ilya Shapiro, Walter Olson, & Trevor Burrus

Cato Institute - April 13, 2020
 
Facial Recognition, the Future of Privacy, & COVID-19
With Brenda Leong
Carnegie Council - April 14, 2020
 
The Coronavirus’s Impact Throughout Africa
With Michelle D. Gavin
Council on Foreign Relations, The President’s Inbox - April 14, 2020
 
Pandemic Preparedness & Response
With Lisa Monaco
CBS News, Intelligence Matters - April 15, 2020
 
The COVID-19 Security Challenges
With Walter Russel Mead, Rebeccah Heinrichs, & John Walters
Hudson Institute, The Realignment - April 15, 2020
 
Big Brother, Solutions & Widespread Distrust
With Victor Cha & Steve Morrison
Center for Strategic and International Studies, The Truth of the Matter - April 15, 2020
 
The COVID-19 Security Challenges
With Walter Russell Mead, Rebeccah Heinrichs, & John Walters
The Realignment, Hudson Institute - April 15, 2020
 
Trade in a pandemic: Traditional Issues, New Concerns, and Optimal Policy Responses
With Daniel Ikenson, Simon Lester, & Inu Manak
Cato Institute - April 15, 2020
 
Containing the economic nationalist virus through global coordination
With Monica de Bolle, Sergei Guriev, & Adam S. Posen
Peterson Institute for International Economics - April 15, 2020
 
COVID-19 and the global economy: shutdown but not out?
With Dr. David Gordon
Sounds Strategic, International Institute for Strategic Studies - April 17, 2020
 
A short- and long-term approach to COVID-19
With Dr. William A. Haseltine
Brookings Institution - April 20, 2020
 
COVID-19 and International Security
With Greg Koblentz
Power Problems, Cato Institute - April 21, 2020
 
The Global National Security Effects of COVID-19
With John McLaughlin
Intelligence Matters, CBS News - April 22, 2020
 
WTH really happened at the Wuhan lab?
With Josh Rogin
What The Hell is Going On?, American Entreprise Institute - April 27, 2020
 
Global Economic Effects of COVID-19
With Olivier Blanchard
Intelligence Matters, CBS News - April 29, 2020
 
COVID-19 and Economic Migration
With Iulia Joja & Bob Hamilton
Middle East Focus, Middle East Institute - May 7, 2020
 
Coronavirus Political Impact: Power insecurity Threatens U.S.-China Relations
With Dr. Yuen Yuen Ang
National Committee on U.S-China Relations - May 8, 2020
 
Coronavirus Economic Impact: U.S.-China Commercial Relations, Challenges and Opportunities
With Ami Celico
National Committee on U.S-China Relations - May 8, 2020
 
The Global National Security Implications of COVID-19
With Michael Morrell
Intelligence Matters, CBS News - May 8, 2020
 
Containing COVID-19
With Dr. Michael Osterholm
Intelligence Matters, CBS News - May 13, 2020
 
The Global Struggle To Reopen
With Timothy Martin, Joanna Kakiki, Rob Schmitz, & David Kessler
World Affairs Council - May 18, 2020
 
COVID-19 in Conflict Zones
With Kelly Razzouk
Carnegie Council - May 19, 2020
 
PIIE Trade Winds: Disruption of Global Value Chains and International Trade Cooperation
With The Hon. Mary Ng, Ambassador Stephen de Boer, Anabel González, & Jeffrey J. Schott
Peterson Institute for International Economics - May 22, 2020
 
Leading in a Pandemic: How New Zealand eliminated COVID-19 while the United States is leaving people behind
With Teresa Cotsirilos, Indira Stewart, & Nicholas Kristof
World Affairs Council - May 23, 2020
 
Dark Days Ahead
With Victor Davis Hanson
The Classicist, Hoover Institution - May 30, 2020
 
The WTO in the Post-COVID-19 World
With The Hon. Arancha González-Laya, Anabel González, & Gary Clyde Hufbauer
Peterson Institute for International Economics - June 3, 2020
 
COVID-19 and the financial system How resilient are the banks? How are they supporting the economy?
With David Wessel, Jeremy Stein, Michael Blank, Samuel G. Hanson, Jeremy Stein, Adi Sunderam, Betsy Duke, Donald Kohn, Andrew Metrick, & Nellie Liang
Brookings Institution - June 8, 2020
 
Middle class economic security during the COVID-19 crisis
With Richard V. Reeves, Jeff Larrimore, Jenny Schuetz, & Camille Busette
Brookings Institution - June 18, 2020
 
Reopening the world - How to save lives and livelihoods
With Madiha Afzal, William J. Antholis, Célia Belin, Agneska Bloch, Jian Chen, Giovanna De Maio, Sam Denney, David Dollar, Bruce Jones, Kemal Kirişci, Filippos Letsas, Cheng Li, Suzanne Maloney, Steven Pifer, Tony Pipa, Natan Sachs, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Geoffrey Gertz, Shadi Hamid, Ryan Hass, & Bonnie Jenkins
Brookings Institution - June 25, 2020
 
After Coronavirus I: Can the Global Economy be Saved?
With Pr. Dan Drezner
Power Problems, Cato Institute - June 30, 2020
 
National COVID-19 Testing: A Roadmap to Reopening
With Pr. Paul M. Romer & Dr. Jonathan Quick
World Affairs Council -  June 22, 2020
 
The Struggle To Test and Trace COVID-19
With Dr. George Rutherford, Melissa Millsaps, Jon Jacobo, & Cat Brooks
World Affairs Council -  June 25, 2020
 
The Roots of the Nation’s Struggle to Control the Pandemic
With David Sanger
The Truth of the Matter, Center for Strategic and International Studies - July 22, 2020
 
How Africa is tackling COVID-19
With Michael E. O’Hanlon, Zoe Marks, Alexandra (Xander) Meise, Youssef Travaly, & Desiree Cormier Smith
Brookings Institution - July 24, 2020
 
After Coronavirus II: The pandemic and the Defense Budget
With The Hon. Bernie Sanders, Andrew Lautz, Jonathan Bydlak, Eric Gomez, Lauren Sander, & Brandon Valeriano
Power Problems, Cato Institute - July 28, 2020
 
The Global Economy After COVID-19
With James Manyika, Mohamed El-Erian, & Gilian Tett
World Affairs Council -  July 6, 2020
 
WTH is going on with a COVID vaccine?
With Dr. Moncef Slaoui
What The Hell is Going On?, American Entreprise Institute - August 6, 2020
 
How South East Asia Flattened the COVID-19 Curve
With Hannah Beech, Dr. Todd Pollock, & Guy Thwaites
World Affairs Council - August 10, 2020
 

 

 

 

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