The Global Fight Against COVID-19
Deep Background with Noah Feldman
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Nader Mousavizadeh, who formerly served in the Executive Office of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, explains why international organizations like the WHO and the UN have not been able to effectively coordinate a global response to the pandemic. Plus, is it a good thing or a bad thing that Bill Gates had stepped in to fill that void?
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
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| 0:40.4 | From Pushkin Industries, this is Deep Background, the podcast where we explore the stories behind |
| 0:45.9 | the stories in the news. I'm Noah Feldman. If you've been following this show for the last |
| 0:51.3 | couple of months, you'll know that I've covered the coronavirus |
| 0:54.1 | pandemic from a lot of angles. But there's one that we haven't yet reached that I've really |
| 0:59.2 | been trying to puzzle over. And that is the diminishing or even almost non-existent role |
| 1:04.9 | of international organizations. Whole countries are making headlines for imposing and lifting social restrictions. |
| 1:13.1 | But the WHO, the World Health Organization, is having its funds cut off by President Donald Trump. |
| 1:19.3 | Without international leadership, the UN is also struggling to do its job. What's the story behind |
| 1:25.4 | all of this? What are these organizations supposed to be doing? Who's filling the vacuum? Here to discuss this with me today is Nader Musavisadeh. Nauter is an extraordinary geopolitical thinker who worked extremely closely as an advisor for many years with Secretary General Kofi Annan of the United Nations. |
| 1:48.7 | He's held leadership positions in a wide range of global institutions around the world. |
| 1:53.9 | And today he's leading macro advisory partners, a firm that provides strategies to businesses and governments around the world. |
| 1:57.7 | In honor, thank you very much for joining me. |
| 2:00.3 | I hugely appreciate it. |
| 2:01.8 | I wanted to start with international organizations, and they're always an alphabet soup of acronyms, you know, from the better known like the UN to the WHO, the World Health Organization. |
| 2:14.6 | Then we've got the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank. What are they supposed to be |
| 2:20.5 | doing right now? We all have the sense that they're not doing exactly what they're supposed to do, |
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