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Does China Pose a moral hazard in the international society?

29th March 2020 Starting the conversation… Kun-Chin Lin, Deputy Director, Centre for Geopolitics The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed a fundamental vulnerability in our international society. We are shown to be vulnerable to the moral hazardous behavior of illiberal states operating in a liberal global order. These states...


Read more at: Does China pose a moral hazard in the international society?
China Moral Hazard

Does China pose a moral hazard in the international society?

29th March 2020 Starting the conversation… Kun-Chin Lin, Deputy Director, Centre for Geopolitics The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed a fundamental vulnerability in our international society. We are shown to be vulnerable to the moral hazardous behavior of illiberal states operating in a liberal global order. These states...


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Will the Covid-19 pandemic lead to a global spike in religiosity?

29th March 2020 Starting the conversation… Judd Birdsall , Director, Cambridge Initiative on Religion & International Studies, Centre for Geopolitics Around the world, and especially in the Global South, many religious communities are growing in size, salience, and political influence. How might the current pandemic...


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Pandemic & EU

How will the Coronavirus epidemic impact the European Union

29 March 2020 Starting the conversation… Brendan Simms , Director of the Centre for Geopolitics The protagonists of the European Union say that it never lets a good crisis go to waste. Its critics, and even some of its friends, argue that the EU never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. First, Europe failed to...


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Responsibilty to protect from pandemics

Is there a responsibility to protect the world from pandemics?

29 March 2020 Starting a conversation… Thomas Peak , Research Associate, Centre for Geopolitics The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is the international political commitment to end mass atrocities. Unanimously adopted by the 2005 World Summit, it reflects a compromise agreement – and after the original effort to address...


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Why does it matter who blames whom for the coronavirus?

26th March 2020 Starting the conversation… Suzanne Raine , Affiliated Lecturer, Centre for Geopolitics The serious geopolitical consequences of catastrophic events such as famines, pandemics, depressions and wars are often caused less by the actual events than by the process of blame (both deliberate and spontaneous) which...