Now Live: The COVID-19 Global Response Index

A first-of-its-kind assessment by FP Analytics [Read this email in your browser]( Welcome to FP This Week. Foreign Policy’s in-house Analytics unit launched its COVID-19 Global Response Index, the first effort to analyze national leaders’ pandemic responses by key policy metrics. We invite you to preview this latest FP Insider Special Report, which covers 36 countries. And stay tuned: We will soon be announcing new FP Virtual Dialogues. Thank you for reading. --------------------------------------------------------------- NEW SPECIAL REPORT [The COVID-19 Global Response Index]( From FP Analytics, a country-by-country assessment of government responses to the pandemic. What comprises an effective pandemic response? FP Analytics, the independent research division of Foreign Policy, seeks to answer that question with [The COVID-19 Global Response Index](. The index is a first-of-its-kind effort to analyze national leaders’ pandemic responses by critical policy metrics, as well as the spread of misinformation and restrictions on the press—and it will be doing so on an ongoing basis. The full-scale analysis covers 36 countries, including G-20 nations and several developing and middle-income countries that experts and epidemiologists have identified as having notable experiences with respect to COVID-19. It also contains nine supplementary findings, which provide essential lessons as countries continue to confront the impact of the pandemic. Full access to The COVID-19 Global Response Index, like [all Special Reports]( produced by FP Analytics, is available with an FP Insider subscription. → Get more with FP Insider. Another reason to become an FP Insider: In September, we will be hosting an exclusive conference call to go deeper on the index, its methodology, and key findings. [Join Insider here]( or [contact us directly](mailto:insider@foreignpolicy.com). [View the Index]( --------------------------------------------------------------- STORIES OF NOTE: IN CASE YOU MISSED IT [The Hiroshima Effect]( An essay by FP senior correspondent Michael Hirsh. Seventy-five years after the first nuclear bomb fell, we are grateful it hasn’t happened again, mystified it didn’t, and terrified it still might—especially since U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have begun a new nuclear arms race, FP’s Michael Hirsh writes. [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cities in the Future]( Twelve experts on the coming transformations in urban life; part of a series of expert insights on the post-pandemic world. Hunkered down at home, rarely venturing into hauntingly empty streets, most of us are still at a loss at how urban life will look afterward. Cities thrive on the opportunities for work and play and on the endless variety of available goods and services. If fear of disease becomes the new normal, cities could be in for a bland and antiseptic future, perhaps even a dystopian one. But if the world’s cities find ways to adjust, as they always have in the past, their greatest era may yet lie before them. To help us make sense of urban life after the pandemic, Foreign Policy asked 12 leading thinkers from around the world to weigh in with their predictions. → Revisit the rest of this special series, which includes [the future of travel]( [the fate of the economy]( and [the future of the state](. [Learn More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Partner with us: Interested in learning more about FP Analytics’ cutting-edge research services, our FP Virtual Dialogue series, or podcast production by FP Studios? Would you like to equip your team or organization with access to Foreign Policy? Contact Andrew Sollinger at andrew.sollinger@foreignpolicy.com. --------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW FP ON This email was sent to {EMAIL} because you are subscribed to FP communications. Want to receive FP newsletters? [Manage]( your FP newsletter preferences. [unsubscribe]( | [privacy policy]( | [contact us]( | [advertise]( Foreign Policy magazine is a division of Graham Holdings Company. All contents © 2020 The Slate Group, LLC. All rights reserved. Foreign Policy, 1750 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20006. [Link](