The Perfect Storm

Reuters
April 24, 2020 Topic: Security Region: Americas Tags: CoronavirusPandemicEpidemicOutbreakEconomy

The Perfect Storm

The modern world faces a perfect storm: the combination of a deadly and highly infectious virus, an emerging worldwide economic depression, the collapse of global governance, and an absence of coordinated and effective international response. Yet in this crisis there is also an opportunity.

Dimitri K. Simes, publisher of the National Interest, is President and CEO of the Center for the National Interest.

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