Global Challenges: Pandemic and World Order - The Regional Impact of COVID-19

Описание: The COVID-19 global pandemic has upended a world that already faced significant political, economic, and social disruption. This fall, MSFS will host an online symposium for all GSFS students to explore and discuss how the global system has been changed and what the future might hold. The symposium is centered on a weekly series of interviews with high-level practitioners and leading SFS scholars who will assess the consequences of COVID-19 for issues in international affairs. Topics include great power competition, fragile states, democracy and disruption, the global financial system, the role of social media, public health and racial injustice, and much more. Each interview will be followed by a discussion among SFS faculty and students on the topic.

This week discussion features:

Latin America:

Pamela Figueroa, Researcher, University of Santiago de Chile, Former Chief of the Studies Division of the Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency

Interviewed by Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J., Director, Latin American Studies Program, Georgetown University

Middle East:

HRH Princess Ghida Talal, Chairperson, King Hussein Cancer Foundation and Center

H.E. Dr. Saad Jaber, Jordanian Minister of Health

Interviewed by Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, Deputy Director, Master of Science in Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Joseph Sassoon, Director, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University

Asia:

Ahn Ho-young, President, University of North Korean Studies, Former Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the United States

Kenichirō Sasae, President of the Japan Institute of International Affairs, Former Japanese Ambassador to the United States of America

Interviewed by Evan Medeiros, Penner Family Chair in Asian Studies, Georgetown University