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Rethinking Global Security: Katrina vanden Heuvel

July 15, 2021

US President Joe Biden, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meet during the US-Russia summit on June 16, 2021, in Geneva, Switzerland. (Peter Klaunzer – Pool / Keystone via Getty Images)

World politics after the Biden-Putin Summit: Katrina vanden Heuvel argues that we need to rethink what real security means, and that it can’t mean a new cold war but joint action with Russia and China on climate change, pandemics, and the threat of nuclear war.

Also: Amy Wilentz comments on Haiti after the assassination of its unloved president—and the necessity of following grassroots progressive civil society groups in finding a path forward toward free and fair elections.

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