In late-2020, a request for the temporary suspension of COVID-19 patents was submitted to the WTO. Today, some countries are still resisting the waiver. Milad Tabesch and Robert Schirmer examine the narratives exacerbating the global… [Read more]
Tag: Pandemic
The Disposable Lives: Covid-19 and Wars
In March 2020, war-time medical personnel were roped in to assist hospitals in the world’s wealthiest city, New York. Confronted with do-not-resuscitate policies, rationing and elective surgeries, they termed the situation as requiring ‘countermeasures’. Although… [Read more]
How to Survive Radical Uncertainty
The core idea of representative democracy is that leaders maintain a comprehensive vision of politics, surveying how different realms of policy interact with each other and acting in accordance with their conscience. Ultimately, the trade-offs… [Read more]
The Gig’s Up: Rolling Back Worker Protections in California
This piece is part of a novel collaboration between The Governance Post and The Paris Globalist, the international affairs magazine by students at Sciences Po in Paris, France. The onset of a global pandemic and… [Read more]