The Vice President of the IIP participated in the Keynote Address at the Global Negotiation Conference.

The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated both the necessity of and challenges to global cooperation. This conference will reflect on the role that diplomacy can play as a tool to overcome some of the most pressing issues facing the world. Organized by the Global Negotiation Conference in collaboration with the Chair of Political Philosophy and the Centre for Ethics at the University of Zurich, the goal of the conference is to link young professionals and students with senior professionals and academics to discuss contemporary topics in the field of diplomacy and negotiation.

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) will enter into force on 22 January 2021. On this occasion organizes the IIP a virtual debate about the future of nuclear weapons. The Ban Treaty expresses concern about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of the use of nuclear weapons, and calls for their complete elimination. Even though the catastrophic consequences of the use of nuclear weapons are widely recognized, nuclear-armed states remain convinced by the concept of nuclear deterrence, which they believe protects them from a nuclear or massive conventional attack.

The Vice President of the IIP, Angela Kane, participated in seventh annual “Riga Dialogue” that took place in September 2020 on the topic “The Future of Multilateralism in the Era of Great Power Competition”. See the full publication below:

The Global Challenges Foundation published its new report “Global Catastrophic Risks 2020” which describes major global risks and provides a summary of what actions are being taken to manage them. The Vice President of the IIP Angela Kane contributed to this report.

2020 was indeed a remarkable year. But not only in a negative way! We asked IIP advisory board members and staff about important developments in international politics that might have been overshadowed by the pandemic crisis.

Politicians, academics, and other prominent senior experts from ECFR’s Council call on EU leaders to adopt a 6-point action plan for a transatlantic bargain