This fifth and concluding webinar in the Virtual Dialogues series centred on the book Global Cooperation in Times of Crisis: Grasping the Changing Mood of the World brings together diverse regional perspectives on the future of global cooperation. Throughout the series, participants have explored how “epochal moods” shape international cooperation and reflected on what became of the spirit associated with the major global agreements adopted in 2015, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on climate change.

While previous sessions focused on the nature of crisis and its implications for global development cooperation, this final webinar turns explicitly to regional perspectives. It asks a central question underpinning the entire series: crisis for whom? Experiences of uncertainty, instability, and international order are never universal, but shaped by geopolitical position, historical trajectories, and regional political cultures.

Framed as a roundtable discussion, the webinar explores how global cooperation is viewed from Brazilian, Russian, Chinese, European-North American, and Turkish perspectives. Participants will reflect on shifting power relations, geopolitical tensions, competing visions of international order, and the changing role of development cooperation in a fragmented world.

By bringing these perspectives into dialogue, the session highlights how regional actors are redefining alliances, revising development models, and advancing new narratives of sovereignty, partnership, and global engagement. Concluding the series with a conversation grounded in regional experiences, the webinar emphasizes that the future of cooperation will emerge through multiple voices, competing visions, and evolving forms of engagement across the world.

Speakers:

Reidar Staupe - Associate Professor of Societal Security and Aurora Fellow at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Adjunct Associate Professor at Oslo New College

Salvador Regime - Associate Professor of International Relations (Universitair hoofddocent) based at the Institute of History at Leiden University, the Netherlands

Jing Gu - Director of the Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development at the Institute of Development Studies

Patrícia Nogueira Rinaldi - Associate Professor of International Relations at Faculdades de Campinas (FACAMP, Brazil) and Director of its Center of Studies and Research in International Relations (CERI-FACAMP)

This webinar is part of the Virtual Dialogues series based on the book Global Cooperation in Times of Crisis: Grasping the Changing Mood of the World. It is the fifth and final webinar in the series exploring the book’s key themes and debates. The session addresses different regional perspectives on crisis, cooperation, and global transformation.

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