Joe Biden faces the most daunting, overflowing inbox of any new US president since the second world war when he takes office on 20 January. CIDOB incorporates the dynamics of other regions of the world into its analysis. Note: (*) The United Kingdom will leave the EU in January 2021. For example, half of U.S. adults polled in 2019 said that they or a family member had … September 14th–30th - 76th United Nations General Assembly session. One proposal on the table for 2021 is a summit of democracies. Political Risk Outlook 2021. About 250 people attended Monday’s virtual talk. Endorsing the concept of ‘Maitri’, signifying ethical relationship among multiple social entities, the book offers a distinct theory of the social supported by ample empirical observations. President Nayib Bukele and his Nuevas Ideas party seem likely to triumph over traditional forces like Arena and FMLN, as well as more recently created ones like GANA. GDP Annual Growth (1980-2020): More Economies in a Deeper Fall. Middle-income economies, like those in Latin America, and low-income economies, such as most African countries, may experience liquidity crises. President Trump's response further radicalised the protests, which extended across the country for weeks. enjoy recent momentum in the party, but Democrats are still divided on economics. This will depend on city governments’ ability to foster lasting policy co-production relationships with communities and social groups. Multilateralism is one field where the restoration drive will be most evident. May 2021 will see 184 local councils in England contested, elections for the Scottish and Welsh Parliaments, as well as polls for the London assembly and mayorship. Top GOP Senator Slams Party’s Blockade of Nominees. — PollTracker (@PollTrackerUSA) November 24, 2021. Another issue worth watching in 2021 is whether the solidarity networks coordinated in 2020 at local level become mobilisation structures. The United States will host the latest Summit of the Americas with question marks surrounding the Joe Biden administration’s policy line on hemispheric relations. Online investigations have been one of the few cracks in Putin’s control over internal politics in Russia. This report examines the views of Texans on five different types of legislation that are presently being debated in the Texas Legislature: political reforms, criminal justice reforms, marijuana and casino legalization, and Medicaid expansion. Diplomacy may be among the first areas to return to normality, given the vast limitations of “zoom diplomacy”, the security vulnerability of virtual meetings, and the memory of the dreary 75th anniversary of the United Nations. The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) is considering this period for the holding of elections that have been postponed several times since 2014. The ultimate guide for anyone wondering how President Joe Biden will respond to the COVID-19 pandemic—all his plans, goals, and executive orders in response to the coronavirus crisis. The European Union has always aspired to transform itself and the countries around it and even to set standards that can be applied to the other component parts of the international system. PM Scott Morrison’s call for an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus, whether reasonable or not, further soured relations. June 6th - Parliamentary elections in Mexico. UK News Published: Nov 9, 2021. The issues getting attention from Gov. In 2021, Australia will have China and the climate crisis on its mind. December 11th - 75th anniversary of the creation of UNICEF. Vietnam's relationship with its northern neighbour is complex and especially strained in the South China Sea. Recalling that the pandemic is one of many challenges that can only be addressed globally, cooperation networks have been strengthened at regional level – in Africa, for example – as well as between cities around the world. Delays in approving the new constitution would set back the transition and the political and social reforms begun in 2017. The House Select Committee has issued subpoenas to ten former Trump administration officials, including individuals who served on the White House staff at the time of the January 6th … The country where the virus originated was one of the few that continued to grow in 2020, and in 2021 – when the 14th five-year plan enters into force (2021–2025) – it is expected to grow by over 8%. Harris County residents (65%) are significantly more likely than other Texans (55%) to strongly support a ban on the use of chokeholds by police officers. Digital expansion leads to greater exposure and, as a result, greater scrutiny by public opinion and governments. The country's stability will depend on whether President Barrow decides to break his promise not to stand for re-election or not. In some cases, global organisations and agendas will regain centre stage, with the WHO playing a key role. Additional Poor at the US$1.90-a-Day Line in 2020 per Covid-19 (millions of persons). December 30th - Tenth anniversary of Kim Jong-un's government. Kirk P. Watson, Dean, Hobby School of Public Affairs, Renée Cross, Senior Director & Researcher, Hobby School of Public Affairs, Mark P. Jones, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy's Fellow in Political Science, Rice University; Senior Research Fellow, Hobby School of Public Affairs, Pablo M. Pinto, Director, Center for Public Policy; Associate Professor, Hobby School of Public Affairs, Savannah Sipole, Research Associate, Hobby School of Public Affairs, Agustín Vallejo, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Hobby School of Public Affairs, Texas Democratic Primary Election 2020 Survey, The New Political Geography of the Lone Star State: How Surging Metropolitan Growth is Changing the Partisan Balance in Texas, The Texas Voter ID Law and the 2016 Election: A Study of Harris County and Congressional District 23, 3623 Cullen Blvd, Room 306 Houston, TX 77204-5021 713-743-3970. COVID-19 led the summit scheduled for 2020 to be postponed. This year Bashar al-Assad celebrates 20 years in power and elections are planned that will be a mere formality designed to buttress the regime, but also a reminder of the failure to draft a new constitution before the presidential election. Reading this book should make you want to vote.”—Barack Obama In a world of sound bites, deliberate misinformation, and a political scene colored by the blue versus red partisan divide, how does the average educated American find a ... His announcement of a return to multilateralism and diplomacy has generated some optimism in the part of the international community calling for greater US involvement in issues such as climate change and international trade. The aim is to push for the commitment of governments, civil society, the private sector, donor agencies and the UN to end rates of acute food insecurity in the world, which have been exacerbated by the pandemic. The country’s communist leadership has also come under increased scrutiny over human rights abuses, from a sweeping security law used to crush Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, to internment camps for Muslim minorities in far western Xinjiang province. Jason Burke. But many countries, including the UK and the US, are still stumbling through the deadliest period of the pandemic. We have identified ten key issues to watch in Africa in the year ahead. June 28th - Tenth anniversary of the global eradication of rinderpest. Jair Bolsonaro has so far avoided domestic criticism of his handling of the Covid crisis. Biden, at 78 the oldest US president ever elected, has made it clear that taming Covid-19 is the No 1 priority. It aims to discuss and analyse the role of companies in promoting the SDGs and multilateralism. But that cognitive dissonance is starting to show. February–March - Palestinian elections. Shinzo Abe's resignation due to illness in September 2020 and the appointment of Yoshihide Suga as prime minister means the race has begun to lead the Liberal Democratic Party into the parliamentary elections. Former President Donald Trump has the highest proportion of unfavorable ratings by a narrow majority of Texans (51%), followed by U.S. Two decades have passed since the United States’ worst terrorist attack, when nearly 3,000 people were killed in New York, in Arlington (Virginia) and on the outskirts of Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Organised in London, the forum will bring together prominent leaders and international development and global aid agencies, as well as political and business representatives. All rights reserved. The far-right renegade has so far managed to dodge responsibility for Brazil’s dire response to the Covid-19 epidemic, which has killed more than 195,000 Brazilians, while also shaking off a succession of scandals involving his family. Many analysts saw 2020 as a year when democracy suffered, with incumbents in countries from Tanzania to Guinea using a mixture of the security services, populist sloganeering and new laws to muzzle dissent. In 2021, giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft will continue to dominate, but the fastest growth will be among their Chinese rivals and new companies that emerge almost from nothing. As we shall see below, lockdown has also been a springboard for the digital giants, increasing the urgency for governments to control monopolistic tendencies, ensure consumer protection and prevent fiscal haemorrhaging. Yet even with agricultural turmoil, Modi’s popularity rating remains untouchably high, consistently staying above 70%, paving the way for his government to continue the implementation of its Hindu nationalist agenda with increasing fervour in 2021, and to begin the campaign for a 2024 election victory. March 15th - Ten years since the war in Syria began. In a context of pandemic and mobility restrictions, some may believe that the cycle of protests has ended. But what to do about coal? And with a more integrated European foreign policy – despite much talk of “strategic European autonomy” – still some way off, the geopolitical rivalry between the US and China will force Europe to tread a delicate path between principle and self-interest. Farm Laws: Govt ready to discuss all issues in Parliament, says PM Narendra Modi | Breaking News | News Today • Politics News - Politics69 • Farm Laws: Govt ready to discuss all issues in Parliament, says PM Narendra Modi | Breaking News( Source : … Fielded between Jan. 12 and Jan. 20, the 1,329 respondents were matched to a sampling frame on gender, age, race/ethnicity and education and are representative of the Texas adult population. One of the many side effects of COVID-19 has been and will be the worsening of humanitarian crises due to increasing poverty, declining availability of international aid and logistical difficulties delivering it. Simultaneously, vaccine geopolitics will emerge. Pending - 9th Summit of the Americas. “The cameras go on, and there are a few people that are very caustic and very extreme and that gets excitement from the base,” Romney said. Human rights violations in both hostile countries and notional partners and allies will be reported more vehemently. Digitalisation is a mega-trend that is hard to reverse and in 2020 it suddenly accelerated. The political divide on the issue is only deepening, as Republican leaders of other states take more steps to thwart mandates. 8. Navalny has been in Europe since August recuperating from being poisoned by Russia’s FSB security service. Aggravating the political unrest, Bolivia now faces an unprecedented economic crisis amplified by the coronavirus pandemic (Societe Generale, 31 October 2020). As always, Texas legislators have an array of policies and trade-offs to consider during the 2021 legislative session. The United Nations Secretary-General has promoted this international summit where new lines of work and public policy will be presented to improve global food systems by making them healthier, more sustainable and fairer, and thereby promote public debate about them throughout the world. According to the World Tourism Organization barometer, international tourist arrivals fell by 70% in January–August 2020 compared to the same period in 2019. Democrats are riding a wave of demographic change and suburban revolt away from the GOP to political power. But when the immediate threat is over, the world will face other major challenges that in a normal year would have dominated the headlines. Taking advantage of increased digital transactions in times of pandemic, the adoption of this digital currency has two objectives. Despair and frustration, in part due to the lack of results from previous protest cycles, as well as increased repression by security forces, mean that there is a clear risk of this new cycle of protests becoming more violent. The future of Trumpism and its legacy on the national and international stage remains to be seen. The offerings in 5G, Big Data and analytics are particularly anticipated at this year’s event. The world’s largest mobile event brings the main international technology and communication companies to Barcelona. India, an energy-dependent country with rising demand, is enthusiastically embracing hydrogen technology, while Chile has unveiled plans to start producing green hydrogen in 2021. In 2011, the self-immolation of fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi prompted protests in Tunisia that led Ben Ali to flee into exile. The 71-year-old prime minister, who has dominated Israeli politics since the mid-1990s, has managed to repeatedly block rivals from taking his seat. This book illustrates how political psychology has addressed critical social issues in Latin America and provides a selective summary of work conducted by some of the leading Latin American researchers in political psychology. A fitting moment to take stock of the current state of Al-Qaeda in terms of leadership, presence and strategy, and how jihadist terrorism has been atomised. They voted that climate change and health care are the two most important political issues in the upcoming election on Tuesday, Nov. 2. Communities and wildlife are still recovering from the wildfires of late 2019 and early 2020 that roared after the country’s hottest and driest year on record. In international affairs, the main driver of reorientation will be China. This book offers the assessment of Myanmar’s societal changes, development aspects, and political situation over the course of the nation’s short lived democratic transition disrupted by the coup d’état on 1 February 2021. It is impossible to know who will surprise us in 2021. Moscow has already announced its willingness to extend New START, the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which regulates the control of strategic nuclear weapons in Russia and the United States and was signed in 2010 by Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev. The Munich Security Conference preparatory report describes the situation as a “polypandemic”: along with the regression in terms of development, poverty and famine, it noted increased repression, institutional fragility and various forms of violence becoming entrenched. On the one hand, cooperative responses have been revived. The 44-year-old Nobel prize winner spearheaded the push to sideline the ageing rulers who had been in charge for 30 years and forced through reforms. But the inability of successive Afghan governments to control the territory and the impossibility of defeating the Taliban led the US government to sign an agreement with them that involved the immediate starting of peace talks between different Afghan actors, the withdrawal of US troops and the widespread reduction of violence, conditions which have not been met. When the COVID-19 outbreak emerged in March, it snapped a decade of growth in state tax collections as most state legislatures were in session crafting the Fiscal Year 2021 budgets. But in a country as fractured and volatile as Venezuela, perhaps not even he would want to predict where his year might end. This report compares the attitudes, opinions and evaluations of respondents living in Harris County to those of the residents of the 253 other Texas counties. The measures Japan adopts may serve as an example for other major international events. Key public policy issues for the Biden administration and Congress. Text finalised on December 11th 2020. Mars 2020, the most important space mission in recent years is expected to land in the Jezero crater on Mars. This report examines the views of Texans on five different types of legislation that are presently being debated in the Texas Legislature: political reforms, criminal justice reforms, marijuana and … More than seven in 10 Texans (72%) support an increase of the current state tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products. It has changed our daily lives with a speed and intensity that has reminded us of the fragility of what we thought strong and the malleability of what we thought immutable. Leaders, political figures issue messages for Veterans Day 2021; Iowa's top political figures issue statements on the caucus catastrophe; Political figures salute the 4th of July; Message from Rochester city leaders: 'Stop congregating in parks' Rights activists, political leaders mourn Rep. … At the intersection between the agendas of preservation and transformation we find two other challenges: the economic recovery and the desire for greater strategic autonomy. In the centres and in the suburbs most affected by the crisis, the urban space will be the setting for recurring expressions of unrest, which will in many cases lead to riots and clashes with police forces and even between groups with conflicting interests. Allowing casino gambling in Texas similar to that which exists in Nevada and Louisiana is supported by more than half of Texans (58%). The War Against New Jersey (and Other Blue States) High-tax states argue they are footing more of the nation’s bill than the rest of the country. But as 2021 progresses we are likely to see that it was merely on pause and any attempts to make permanent the restrictive measures applied during the pandemic will only increase the agitation. December 18th - Tenth anniversary of the end of the Iraq war. May 23rd - Parliamentary elections in Vietnam. Recommended for anyone who has an interest or a stake in the island republic, this introductory text provides insights on what drives, shapes and influences Singapore's politics and explains the political behaviour of Singaporeans. Numerous mutual support networks have emerged, both at national level (such as İhtiyaç Haritasıin Turkey, Mutual Aid in the United Kingdom, Territoires Engagés in France and Territorios en Acción inArgentina) and at local level (Mutual Aid NYC in New York, the Rede Solidária de Lisboa in Lisbon, andin the São Paulo favela of Paraisópolis and in La Paz). September 26th - Parliamentary elections in Germany. Compilation of international speeches on diplomatic relations and political issues in Bangladesh by Śekha Hāsinā, Prime Minister of Bangladesh. Putin is likely to be keen to punish Navalny for embarrassing revelations about the FSB hit squad, including a taped confirmation from one of the agents obtained by Navalny himself. Tackling the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout will remain the top priority for governments in 2021. Coordinated and edited by Eduard Soler i Lecha, it has benefited from contributions by members from both organisations (Hannah Abdullah, Anna Ayuso, Jordi Bacaria, Ana Ballesteros, Pol Bargués, Moussa Bourekba, Anna Busquets, Carmen Claudín, Carme Colomina, Emmanuel Comte, Carlota Cumella, Anna Estrada, Francesc Fàbregues, Oriol Farrés, Agustí Fernández de Losada, Blanca Garcés, Eva Garcia, Andrea G. Rodríguez, Séan Golden, Berta Güell, Marc Ibáñez, Esther Masclans, Óscar Mateos, Sergio Maydeu, Pol Morillas, Francesco Pasetti, Oriol Puig, Enrique Rueda, Olatz Ribera, Héctor Sánchez, Ángel Saz, Cristina Serrano, Eloi Serrano, Marie Vandendriessche and Martina Valls) as well as by several individual partners of CIDOB. The second factor is relationships with neighbours. CIDOB Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, The world in 2021: ten issues that will shape the international agenda, Josep Ribera, fundador y director de CIDOB (1973-2008), Biografías Líderes Políticos (Only in spanish), Roundtable “What EU Foreign Policy in a more contested World?”, Curso “Proyectar la metrópolis diversa. Demands relating to access to housing, economic opportunities and health workers’ working conditions are likely to characterise protests in 2021. The shadow of Covid will not begin to lift, even in richer countries, for months. Photo | Stephen Jiwanmall / WLVR. Was there a lack of transparency? Read Report One to learn more about where Texans stand on these proposed reforms, including differences of opinion when considering gender, age, race/ethnicity and partisanship. The book focuses on fifteen major cities across Europe, Asia, and the United States, including New York, London, Tokyo, Brussels, Seoul, Geneva, and Hong Kong, not to mention Beijing and Washington, D.C. In addition to highlighting the ... Recyclebank, RelayRides, and LivingGoods are just a few of the innovative organizations you’ll read about in this book. Government cannot handle alone the huge challenges facing our global society—and it shouldn’t. Australia sold A$13.7bn (£7.7bn) of the stuff to China in 2019, but now Beijing is saying no. What potential revenue enhancements do they support and oppose? Also, the first major event in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development which will run from 2021 to 2030. This multilateral treaty signed in 2017 enters into force after over 50 states signed up.

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