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Disintegration of the world? Is globalization history?

Geopolitical news dominates the reporting and the feelings of very many people to such an extent that even the horror of climate change is no longer in focus, not to mention Corona. Interests are colliding in many places, not only in Ukraine, which is so close to us. China aspires to a leadership role, invests globally and shows little inhibition, as Hong Kong and Taiwan make clear. Russia is failing in its new imperialism and threatens to become unpredictable. India, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Yemen and Mali are other places of aggression and uncertainty; the end of humanitarian interventions has been declared. How can we succeed in reaching global agreement on different values and moral concepts, ideologies and cultures in such a way that the focus is on cooperation for the good of all instead of striving for interpretive sovereignty? Even the United Nations, which was founded with this in mind, reaches its limits when even treaties no longer have any value. The following personalities deal with this complex of issues:

Prof. Dr. Niall Ferguson

One of the leading experts in the field of financial and economic history and one of the best-known and most renowned historians of our time.

Prof. Dr. Yuval Noah Harari

Prof. Yuval Noah Harari is arguably the world's most influential nonfiction author, and one of the most important thought leaders of our time, valued as an interlocutor by top international politicians - for example, at the World Economic Forum.

Prof. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Ischinger

Former Chairman of the Munich Security Conference (2008 to 2022) and Global Head of Government Relations, Allianz SE, Munich. From 1998 to 2000, he served as Deputy Foreign Minister. From 2006 to 2008, he was the Federal Republic of Germany's ambassador to the UK, and before that the German ambassador to the US for almost five years. In 2007, he represented the European Union in the troika negotiations on the future of Kosovo. He is also Chairman of the Ambassadors Advisory Board of the Executive Council on Diplomacy in Washington, D.C.

Rüdiger von Fritsch

From 2014 to 2019 German Ambassador in Moscow, previously, from 2010 to 2014, German Ambassador in Warsaw. Since 2020, he has been a partner in the consulting agency "Berlin Global Advisors".