In todays episode, Fabian talked to Michelle Müntefering. She is the Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Foreign Office of Germany and member of the German Bundestag. Together they took a cultural perspective on international development, and talked about how imperial ways of thinking and patriarchal power relations impact our view on development and foreign policy, as well as how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the work at the federal foreign office, a job which usually involves a lot of travelling.