The Price of Interdependence: Towards Economic Regionalisation?

The Covid-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion in Ukraine have demonstrated the vulnerabilities of a densely connected global economy. This opening panel of the 51st St. Gallen Symposium will explore ways in which this current moment is reconfiguring the nature and form of global economic collaboration. How will national economies and businesses strike a balance between independence and interdependence going forward? How can global value chains emerge more resilient from current disruptions?