The Question That Stayed With Me Several years ago, I attended a dinner party, shrimp cocktail, chicken Kiev, and carrot cake, if memory serves. While chatting with the guests about this and that, I was asked by a particularly distinguished-looking man, “What would you really like to understand?” I found the question intriguing. After giving…
The international community has become preoccupied with reforming its institutions. We debate the future of the United Nations Security Council, the composition of the G20, the legitimacy of international financial institutions and the emergence of a more multipolar world. These are important conversations, but they all risk overlooking a more fundamental problem. The world is…
The debate over China’s Global Governance Initiative (GGI) arrives at a moment when questions surrounding global governance are becoming increasingly difficult to avoid. Institutions established in the aftermath of the Second World War are confronting pressures they were never designed to manage: shifting economic power, technological disruption, climate change, geopolitical fragmentation and growing dissatisfaction with…