10 Break-Out Sessions
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Pushback, Withdrawal, Dissidence, and Reform: Why Do States Contest the Liberal International Order?
Why do states contest the liberal international order, and what strategies of contestation do they use? In an exclusive Topic Brief for the St. Gallen Symposium, Professor Tanja Börzel and Professor Michael Zürn bring clarity to a heated debate by drawing attention…
Tomorrow’s Freedom Depends on Clean Energy
20th century conversations about sustainability were often framed as «economy versus the environment». Many people would have agreed, back then, that it was important to protect the environment, but when push came to shove, economic factors like jobs, profits and…
Populism Is a Symptom of Democracy’s Deeper Crisis
Populists are not the prime problem of representative democracy. They just indicate that it has one, argues Prof. Philip Manow in an exclusive Topic Brief. The populist claim was only able to become so forceful due to the widespread disenchantment…
Challenges for Human Trust in a Connected and Technology-Driven World
The Voices of the Leaders of Tomorrow Report 2021 gives voice to a specially selected group of future top talent: the Leaders of Tomorrow from the network of the St. Gallen Symposium. Our annual flagship study, the Voices of the…
White Paper: Trust Matters Within Organisations
A high level of trust within organisations is key to thrive in times of uncertainty and win the next generation of global talent. Our White Paper, developed together with Boston Consulting Group, demonstrates the power of transparency, enablement and culture…
Human Freedom and Choice in the Light of Technological Change
Our annual flagship study, the Voices of the Leaders of Tomorrow Report 2020 – a collaboration of the Nuremberg Institute for Market Decisions (NIM) and the St. Gallen Symposium – has been released. Read and download the press release as well as the…
Exiting the COVID-19 Crisis Will Require More, Not Less, Integration
COVID-19 is accelerating a backlash against globalisation already underway well before the outbreak. However, to exit this crisis, we need even closer integration and cooperation, argues Loh Boon Chye – CEO of Singapore Exchange – in an exclusive Topic Brief for the…
Essay Review 2020
Prelude: Commentary from the St. Gallen Symposium The 2020 Essay Review by PD Dr Michael Festl, Lecturer of Philosophy at the University of St.Gallen, comprises a selection of 14 published essays representative of this year’s competition and discusses them in…
Leaders of Tomorrow Emphasise Limits to Individual Freedom
Survey results show that tomorrow’s leaders take a clear stance against a purely egocentric interpretation of freedom, in favor of limits and responsibility towards society. From a philosophical perspective, freedom is an exceptionally complex construct. A universal understanding hardly exists.…
Have Older Generations Granted Themselves Too Much Freedom?
The St. Gallen Symposium’s Leaders of Tomorrow (LoT) community is part of the next generation of global leaders. Do they blame the older generation for having granted itself too much freedom at the expense of their own? This year’s Voices…