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Pandemic lays bare constitutional power struggle in Brazil
The Supreme Court has become a thorn in the side of President Jair Bolsonaro
World Economy News
16 May 2021 • 4 min read
It took just five days for Brazil’s supreme court to spring into action when the Jair Bolsonaro administration last month cancelled the census, citing the Covid-19 pandemic and budgetary constraints.
Justice Marco Aurélio ordered the government to reverse course and conduct the constitutionally mandated decennial survey, which had already been postponed once last year. “It is up to the supreme court to impose the adoption of measures to make the demographic research feasible,” he said.
Kent Calder named interim dean of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Scholar of East Asian political economy will succeed Eliot A. Cohen as the search for the next dean proceeds on schedule By Hub staff report / Published May 14, 2021
Kent Calder, a specialist in East Asian political economy and director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, has been appointed interim dean of the school beginning July 1, the university announced today. He succeeds Eliot A. Cohen, whose two-year term as the school s ninth dean concludes on June 30 and who will remain a member of the SAIS faculty.