Online lecture and Discussion: "How to Build the Post-Coronavirus World Order"

The coronavirus has revealed that the liberal world order that we have lived under since 1945 no longer functions. A new order will emerge as the pandemic recedes. In this lecture and discussion, Edward Fishman will distill lessons from the last two attempts to build international orders—in 1919 and 1945—and explain how they're relevant for leaders today. He will also make a few recommendations for what the new order should look like.

This online lecture and discussion was hosted by the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents (AFC-USA), and it is part of the AFC Online Academy for members/foreign journalists.

WHEN: Wednesday, June 10th at 5.30 pm EDT (Online).

Foreign Press Correspondents: "How to Build the Post-Coronavirus World Order", by Edward Fishman

Edward Fishman

BIOGRAPHY: Edward Fishman is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and an adjunct fellow at the Center for a New American Security. His research focuses on Europe, Russia, the future of the international order, and economic sanctions. From 2015 to 2017, Mr. Fishman served at the US Department of State as a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff. In that role, Mr. Fishman advised Secretary of State John Kerry on Europe and Eurasia and led the staff’s work on economic sanctions, long-range strategic planning, and international order and norms.

Before joining the Policy Planning Staff, Mr. Fishman was the Russia and Europe Lead in the State Department’s Office of Economic Sanctions Policy and Implementation, where he played a central role in designing and negotiating international sanctions in response to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, as well as a member of the Iran sanctions team, where he developed policies to strengthen implementation of sanctions against Iran and maintain pressure during the international nuclear negotiations. Outside of the State Department, Mr. Fishman has served at the Pentagon as special assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the Chairman’s Action Group (CAG) and at the Treasury Department as special assistant to the under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence. Mr. Fishman is a recipient of the State Department’s Superior Honor Award (twice) and its Meritorious Honor Award, recognized for his contributions to U.S. policy toward Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and Iran.

Prior to his government service, Mr. Fishman was an editor at Foreign Affairs. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Politico Magazine, and other outlets, and he appears regularly as an expert commentator on television and radio programs. A native of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Mr. Fishman holds a B.A. in history from Yale University, where he received the Winifred Sturley Prize in European History; an M.Phil. in international relations from the University of Cambridge, where he graduated with distinction; and an M.B.A. from Stanford University, where he was named an Arjay Miller Scholar.