The 2020 edition features 34 essays covering a comprehensive range of issues. Key topics include:
- The politics of pandemic
- Climate change: year of reckoning, postponed
- Key international legal gaps
- US–China relations: no way back?
- Russia: the road to 2024
- The US–Taliban deal: will Afghanistan’s peace process work?
Why the UK’s National Cyber Force is an important step forward
Xi steers China towards economic and technological self-reliance
Russia policy priorities for a Biden presidency
Bolivia’s new government: many challenges, one big opportunity
Priorities and pitfalls for a Biden administration in the Middle East
Israel–UAE–Bahrain diplomacy: old divisions overtaken by new agendas
Defending against economic statecraft: China, the US and the rest
Why Lukashenko’s change of tactics matters for Belarus