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Critical State, our weekly foreign policy fix, takes a deep dive into new research that looks at the challenges of public health communication in areas of civil conflict, with a focus on the Philippines.

Research finds that after sustained, positive experience with government, people increasingly cooperated with government outreach, in this case a COVID-19 task force

Credit: Share This analysis was featured in Critical State, a weekly newsletter from The World and Inkstick Media. Subscribe here. When the state makes up its sovereign mind to do some repressing, it is often not the central nervous system of national government — the national police or secret service — that actually carry out purges or mass arrests. Instead, there are often layers of distance between the decision-makers and the people who implement their decisions, even when the decision is to commit violence against the state’s own citizens. This week, Critical State takes a de...