Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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What is the big picture of global politics, and can we even draw one? Three simultaneous dynamics shape global developments, yet they are difficult to think together. The first is a return of great power rivalry. Second is global management of shared dangers like climate change, AI and quantum computing. These two geopolitical dynamics interact, blocking and reinforcing each other. Increasingly, both are conditioned by a third force in world politics: new agendas coming from the ‘Global South’. This talk maps our geopolitical challenges and possibilities in 3D.

Lecturer
Ole WÆVER (Invited Professor, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo; Professor, University of Copenhagen)

Commentator
IGATA Akira (Project Lecturer, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo)

Moderator
SHIMAZU Naoko (Deputy Director, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo)

00:00 Introduction
04:45 Lecture
29:56 Comment
45:40 Q&A
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