Geopolitics after the pandemic: A tour d'horizon of global threats, with Prof Joe Nye (Harvard)

Why you should watch: The G7, the NATO Summit, Biden's tete-a-tete with Merkel next month in DC... Global geopolitics have seldom been so febrile. Other world leaders may be ecstatic that they don't have to deal with (or work around) Trump. But even with the US back on board as a full member of the Western alliance, it is far from plain sailing. What to do about China - a rising power in an unstable region? What to do about Russia - a declining power with the ability to make trouble in Europe, the Middle East and in cyberspace? And will the old certainties hold? Does the 'special relationship' still mean anything - besides a photo op on a beach? Plus, importantly, what will the manifest failure of the 'rich' countries to solve the problems the Covid pandemic is causing in the 'poor' world do to geopolitics going forward? One thing one can say with confidence: Covid is not over - at least, for half the world.

Moderator: Andrew Hilton (Director, CSFI)

Prof Joseph Nye is a Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at Harvard's Kennedy School - of which he is a former Dean. He is also chairman of the US branch of the Trilateral Commission, a member of the US Foreign Policy Board and a former Assistant Secretary of State for International Security. He is one of the most distinguished international relations scholars of the last fifty years, the source of much talk about 'hard' and 'soft' power, and the author of many important books - including 'Do Morals Matter? Presidents and foreign policy from FDR to Trump' - which he published last year. His views are well worth a listen.