DOC Webinar - 75 years after World War Two: Achievements and future prospects
This webinar was hosted in English and French.
In the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, on 8 May the world commemorates the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two and celebrates the achievements of the international system birthed by that historical moment. The magnitude of the present Covid-19 crisis is often compared with the shocks of the 20th-century world wars. The post-war response of world leaders 75 years ago was to strengthen international cooperation by establishing the UN-based multilateral framework to guarantee peaceful cooperation and development. This webinar is to commemorate the anniversary and discuss the pressing issues of world order 75 years on from the end of the war, and is pleased to invite exciting speakers to explore these themes.
Questions discussed during the webinar:
• Will the Covid-19 crisis lead to a reset in international relations and an acceleration in the re-composition of the world order inherited from World War Two? What lessons of unity can we draw when ideologies were secondary to building humanity together? How to revive the need for international leadership in the contemporary world?
• Is the ‘battle of the giants’ between the US and China inevitable? What roles can Europe and Russia play?
• Does the UN, created 75 years ago, still have a role to play? If radical reform is necessary, what should it look like? Has the globalisation bubble finally burst and will we see the emergence of new kinds of capitalism, new kinds of regionalism? Will we see a resurgence of the primacy of nation-states?
We are joined by the following speakers:
-Jean-Pierre Raffarin, former Prime Minister of France and Chair of La Fondation Prospective & Innovation
-Ambassador Vladimir Chizhov, Permanent Representative of Russia to the EU
-Dan Hamilton, Former US Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs, President of the Transatlantic Leadership Network and Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy
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