Meeting

Virtual Roundtable: World Order After COVID-19: Perspectives From the European Union and Russia

Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Johanna Geron/Reuters
Speakers
Andrey Kortunov

Director General, Russian International Affairs Council

Nathalie Tocci

Director, Istituto di Affari Internazionali

Presider
Paul B. Stares

General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations

Center for Preventive Action and Managing Global Disorder

The COVID-19 pandemic has already sparked considerable debate over how the present international order could change as a consequence. Some commentators see the world growing more fragmented and disorderly while others believe this moment will give new impetus to international cooperation on a variety of global challenges. Speakers Andrey Kortunov, Russian International Affairs Council, and Nathalie Tocci, Istituto di Affari Internazionali, discuss what the post-pandemic world may look like.

For further reading, please see the CFR discussion paper, "Perspectives on a Changing World Order," by Dhruva Jaishankar, Qingguo Jia, Andrey Kortunov, Paul Stares, and Nathalie Tocci.

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