Entire countries are on lockdown, state visits cancelled, travel curtailed, key meetings postponed or moved online. The coronavirus pandemic has dramatically altered international diplomacy.
While the interruptions may seem to many like trivial inconveniences for a well-heeled jet set, they may have significant implications for matters of war and peace, arms control and human rights.
Already the United States has cancelled at least two leaders’ summits it planned to host this year and moved a Group of Seven foreign ministers online.
As the global crisis threatens to alter the world balance of power, NATO‘s top diplomats abandoned plans to meet in person this past week, the European Union has scaled back its schedule, a major international