Speakers
Kaja Kallas
Prime Minister of Estonia
Yascha Mounk
Associate Professor of Practice, Johns Hopkins University, US
Margaritis Schinas
Vice President of the European Commission
Vikas Swarup
Former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of India
Moderator
Frank Gardner
Security Correspondent, BBC
The urge to isolate in a small capsule—be it a nation, country, religion, or ideology—and to try to ignore the approaching fires outside is more widespread than was perhaps expected in the more optimistic times when the Berlin Wall fell. COVID-19 has demonstrated that we tend to act instinctively, and not necessarily rationally, when facing a crisis.
- Can global concerns be avoided by staying at home?
- How can shutting the state’s border be a solution, when there are problems that do not care about nation states’ borders, be it pandemic, migration or climate change?
- What are the lessons of the pandemic for states and for the wider international community?
