Amid the Coronavirus pandemic, is there a possibility for a “Society 5.0” in which progress is linked to global responsibility and security over the environment, healthcare, and social and economic justice?

Bahadır Kaleağası, President of the Bosphorus Institute and Lecturer at Galatasaray University, talks with World Unfiltered about the challenges and the potential.

3:08: What is “Society 5.0”, both for a global economy and a global society?

7:30: How can get we to a “Global Society” when so much of our attention is focused on national markers such as GDP and stock markets?

9:40: Are there any countries shifting from a national-oriented growth approach to a more social, environmental, and transnational one?

14:00: To what extent has the tragedy of the pandemic opened up an opportunity for Society 5.0?

18:50: Hasn’t this pandemic raised the problem of nationalism even while we’ve been talking about the need for global solutions?

21:40: Is there a way to fit the Chinese model within this global vision?

25:45: To what extent in the next decade can Turkey be part of this global shift? Can it be at the center?