Update: A Political Scientist on the Pandemic

Abe Newman, professor of government at the BMW Center, and director of Georgetown's Mortara Center for International Studies, sat down with us for a quick conversation on possible implications of the coronavirus pandemic for democracy, transatlantic relations and globalization.

You can read the articles he discussed, and access his lecture series with Henry Farrell, via this link: http://henryfarrell.net/wp/weaponizedinterdependence/

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