Spotlight 2 – June, 2020

Between the first and second issue of The Spotlight, the global pandemic has changed our plans quite a bit, but it has not diminished our resolve. We have moved our events online and to podcasts. You can now hear the International Affairs Network podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and our web site.

We held many interesting discussions over the last few months on the economic and political impact of COVID-19 but it is worth highlighting our international conference “Democracy after COVID19”, with the remarks of Walter Russell Mead, Miguel Morgado and Marina Caetano. You can review the event by video on our site or on podcast.

As we prepare for a challenging second semester we remain committed to work in innovative ways to maintain our mission intact: to create a network of entrepreneurs, academics and politicians and offer an interdisciplinary view of the world to our audience.

Meanwhile, I wholeheartedly thank the contributors to this issue, particularly our editor Francisco de Abreu Duarte and Luís Tavares Bravo for coordinating this issue.