Confidence in geography

As is often the case, the state of the world offers a kaleidoscope of contrasting situations and developments. In the space of eighteen months, the covid-19 pandemic has travelled across all continents in three or four waves, prematurely claiming several million lives, deepening inequalities, fuelling certain conflicts and giving rise to new controls and new defiance. At the same time, the rapid development of vaccines now provides the most privileged with effective protection and opens the h...