Parag Khanna: The World at War – What is the future of global governance amidst diplomatic fluidity?

"The World at War: What is the future of global governance amidst diplomatic fluidity?"

The world is at war: Today's conflicts span the globe, are interconnected, involve great powers, and are intractable. But the patterns of rivalries unfolding today are not reminiscent of the hard alliances of the 19th and 20th centuries. Instead, multi-alignment – the strategy of choosing many mutually beneficial relationships rather than one superpower patron – is the new diplomatic norm.

Even as today's conflicts eventually resolve themselves, multi-alignment will persist as power diffuses and anchor states build new coalitions, institutions, and networks around their interests. What is the future of global governance amidst this unending diplomatic fluidity?

Following the lecture, Parag Khanna will be joined by Fiona Weber-Steinhaus in conversation.

Opening remarks will be given by Grzegorz Nocko, Director of the Robert Bosch Academy.

Parag Khanna is Founder & CEO of AlphaGeo, the leading AI-powered geospatial analytics platform. He is the internationally bestselling author of seven books including a trilogy of books on the future of world order. He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, and Bachelors and Masters degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Born in India and raised in the UAE, New York and Germany, he is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and was awarded a Richard von Weizsaecker fellowship at the Robert Bosch Academy in 2017.

Fiona Weber-Steinhaus is the Deputy Head of the Politics Department at DIE ZEIT. Since 2023, she has been coordinating the foreign reporting for ZEIT Online. Before that, she worked as a freelance reporter for Stern, Spiegel, ZEIT, and the Washington Post, regularly reporting from the UK, the US, India, Bangladesh and many European countries. She loves teaching journalism at different journalism schools and universities. She herself is a graduate of the Henri Nannen School of Journalism and studied in Münster, Glasgow and Dublin.