Speakers
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Prime Minister of Estonia
![Yascha Mounk](https://lmc.icds.ee/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Yascha_Mounk-300x169.jpg?x83798)
Associate Professor of Practice, Johns Hopkins University, US
![Margaritis Schinas](https://lmc.icds.ee/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Margaritis_Schinas-300x169.jpg?x83798)
Vice President of the European Commission
![Vikas Swarup](https://lmc.icds.ee/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Vikas_Swarup-300x169.jpg?x83798)
Former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of India
Moderator
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Security Correspondent at 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?