The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies presents:
Expert Panel: COVID-19 & Geopolitics: The Pandemic’s Impact on Global Relations
With:
Danielle Pletka, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown
Jeffrey Sachs, University Professor, Columbia University; Director, Center for Sustainable Development
Andrew Scobell, Senior Political Scientist, RAND
Moderated by Stuart Gottlieb, Adjunct Professor, SIPA; Member, Saltzman Institute of War & Peace Studies
Advance registration required. Registrants will be sent a Zoom link prior to the event.
Friday, February 26, 2021
12:00pm – 1:30pm
Via Zoom
Registration via the Columbia/SIPA calendars
Registrants will be sent a link the day prior to the event
Abstract:
Even before the pandemic struck, international politics were being tested by a rising China, a retrenching America, a revanchist Russia, and a strained European Union, along with corresponding challenges to global institutions like the United Nations. COVID-19 has only exacerbated these trends. This panel will explore the ways in which the pandemic, and the varied responses to it, has altered – perhaps permanently – relations amongst the world’s great powers, and the operations of global institutions like the UN and World Health Organization.
