This episode features a discussion between Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Co-Chair of the International Crisis Group, and Professor Keith Krause, Director of the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the escalation of conflicts in some parts of the world and led to severe fiscal impacts on aid budgets. Lord Malloch-Brown hopes however that this crisis may...

This episode features a discussion between David Nabarro, Co-Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London and Special Envoy of WHO Director General on COVID-19 and Ilona Kickbusch, founding Director and Chair of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. The COVID-19 pandemic reveals that our food systems are not working properly; food supplies are damaged, strong challenges face both consumers and producers, and food systems are simply...

This episode features a discussion with Helen Clark, Former Minister of New Zealand and former Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, and Mohamed Mahmoud Mohamedou, Professor of International History at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. The so-called War on Drugs has led to devastating consequences. According to Helen Clark, it is time to rethink the drug policies rationale and anchor it in science and evidence. In this sense, the Global Commission on Drug Policy believes...

This episode features a discussion with Philippe Sands, Professor of Laws and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at University College London, and Zachary Douglas, Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. Philippe Sands explains the challenges he faced while writing his new book "The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive". The investigation into the life of Otto von Wächter, a senior Nazi indicted for 'mass murder',...

This episode features a discussion with Carlos Lopes, Professor in the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town, former executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and alumni of the Graduate Institute, and Gilles Carbonnier, Professor of Development Economics at the Graduate Institute and Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross. This discussion focuses on the impacts of COVID-19 in Africa, more specifically...

This episode features a discussion with José Manuel Barroso, former President of the European Commission, former Prime Minister of Portugal, and Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute, and Erica Moret, Senior Researcher and Adjunct Professor in International Relations and Political Science at the Graduate Institute. This discussion focuses on the European Union’s policy response, and geopolitical challenges and opportunities presented by the crisis.

On 5 May 2020, the German Constitutional Court declared that the bond-buying programme of the European Central Bank was ultra vires (exceeding its competences) and therefore, explicitly challenged the authority of the European Court of Justice. Joseph Weiler, University Professor at NYU School of Law and Director of the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice, and Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute,...

This episode features a discussion with Ivan Krastev, Director of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and Permanent Fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna, and Shalini Randeria, Director of the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy at the Graduate Institute. This discussion focuses on the paradoxical world and new power dynamics emerging from the Covid-19 crisis.