“The need for international solidarity and multilateral cooperation is more conspicuous than ever”. With these words Berit Reiss-Andersen (Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee) opened the announcement ceremony of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize – this year presented to the World Food Programme. Expectations were in fact for the COVID-19 pandemic only to have one merit: unite the international community against a common, invisible threat. Yet, the international community is today more disrupted than ever.