In a letter to Ramaphosa, Joseph Stiglitz, alongside Jayati Ghosh and Peter Kamalingin, said they would support South Africa in turning down the compromise proposal.

"Over the last seventy-five years, the endlessly shifting coalitions on the chessboard of Arab regional politics seem to have played by the same rules of the game. Yet, as private interests have become a major source of political power, there have been major changes in the powers and purposes of the players," the former SIPA dean Lisa Anderson writes.

The tenth annual World Happiness Report was released on March 18, co-edited by Jeffrey Sachs: State of the Planet

Erica Lonergan of the Saltzman Institute has a piece in the Council on Foreign Relation's Net Politics and Digital Cyberspace Policy Program on the implications of Ukraine’s use of cyber proxies for norms development.

“No one has been talking about Iran for a very long time,” said Anne-Sophie Corbeau of the Center on Global Energy Policy. “There are three ways Iranian gas could possibly help Europe.”

"Much less Russian oil is getting out into the world. And therefore, there's less oil in the global bathtub of oil and that pushes prices up for that global oil price," comments Jason Bordoff of the Center on Global Energy Policy.

"With Putin’s unrelenting pressure on Russia’s own news outlets, the American company — with more than 200 contributors across Russia — became perhaps the biggest independent source for Russians about events in their own country," Thomas Kent writes.

“The lesson of the World Happiness Report over the years is that social support, generosity to one another, and honesty in government are crucial for well-being,” Jeffrey Sachs says.

"It turns out China and Russia have their own versions of SWIFT," Shang-Jin Wei says.