Lessons From an Age of Progress
Despite how disordered the world feels in 2017, the potential for renewed progress at any given moment is greater than most people think possible. With committed political leadership and innovations in science and business, the world can replicate the unprecedented gains in global health and development made between 2000 and 2015.
WASHINGTON, DC – Imagine that you are a committed internationalist during a tumultuous period in global politics, and you are now grappling with the outcome of a nail-bitingly close US presidential election. The winner is a Republican who ran partly on a message of foreign-policy retrenchment, against a Democrat who represented continuity with the outgoing administration.