In just two years, the world has been thrust into two devastating and consequential crises: a global pandemic the likes of which we haven’t faced since 1918 and a major war in Europe that has caused the largest refugee crises on the continent since World War Two.
Luckily today, we have three pivotal developments unavailable back then: First, a deeply forged transatlantic partnership with robust institutional underpinnings; second, a web of multilateral organizations and alliances, albeit weakened in recent years, which can be mobilized for common causes; and third, the arrival of the interconnected, digital and technology age that increasingly defines our future, and our countries’ role in it.
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