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For many years, the US has been reaching out to multilateral institutions and the private sector.
But here is a clear example of what can be achieved with American leadership of a genuinely multilateral effort backed by hard work.
Having declared their unilateral targets, they are unlikely to engage in further multilateral negotiations.
Unlike the global trading system, the international investment regime does not currently have a multilateral organization to facilitate rule-making, monitor policy developments, or adjudicate disputes.
Fortunately for Putin, in a world where nationalism has been undermining the authority of international law and multilateral institutions, morality is more relative than ever.
For developing economies, multilateral development banks will be a key partner in building capacity and catalyzing financing.
We are at risk of losing our collective understanding of why the multilateral system and international cooperation matter.
It leads to paper-tiger sovereignty, undermines the credibility of democratic governments and the multilateral system, and empowers smugglers and authoritarian populists.
At the same time, the governance structure of multilateral institutions like the International Monetary Fund must be reformed, in order to bolster their legitimacy in emerging markets.
Unilateralism and pre-emptive wars are to be replaced by what Brown defines as “an agenda for a hard-headed internationalism,” based on cooperation with multilateral agencies and alliances – the United Nations, NATO, the European Union, and the British Commonwealth.
But, in the corridors of those two multilateral institutions, there was talk of double standards.
Parallel to the growth agenda, there is a specific role for bilateral and multilateral diplomacy to play in support of improved governance.
China counters by underscoring America’s saving shortfall – a gap that must be plugged by surplus saving from abroad, a current-account deficit, and a multilateral trade imbalance with more than 100 countries.
China blames the US for fixating on a bilateral imbalance as the source of America’s multilateral problem.
Firms and universities are the frontline participants in the global talent race, but global-governance organizations, multilateral development banks, and civil-society groups also have key roles to play.
To this end, Mexico’s government has hosted a series of workshops this year that have engaged representatives from governments, UN agencies, multilateral development banks, and academia to share visions, best practices, and methodologies to implement, measure, and monitor inclusive and sustainable goals.
Besides, if Europe and China want to uphold a rules-based multilateral trade regime, as they say they do, they cannot mirror Trump’s unilateralism and take matters into their own hands.
The multilateral development banks have a critical role to play here, and many have made great strides in responding to market needs.
In order to accomplish this, the six large multilateral development banks and the International Development Finance Club – a network of national, regional, and international development institutions – have been painstakingly working on developing common principles for tracking climate finance.
The World Bank’s Global Infrastructure Facility is an open platform that brings together multilateral development banks, national governments, and private finance to shepherd infrastructure projects to completion and to fill in gaps that have hampered investment.
Moreover, China has thus far shown little interest in discussing the standards by which the multilateral institutions it has launched will be governed – or, indeed, the extent to which they will be truly multilateral.
Beyond the moral imperative of doing so, a successful intervention could help to restore multilateral institutions’ tarnished image.
Nor is it too early to begin work on crafting a new Nuclear Weapons Convention that provides a workable framework for multilateral negotiations, and on devising an independent high-level monitoring mechanism that would spell out clear benchmarks for progress, track how they are being met, and create real pressure for change.
This ban should be overseen by a robust and accountable multilateral global governance mechanism.
The United Nations system, the European Union, and other multilateral organizations are under great stress, because their budgets are inadequate to meet their responsibilities.
Yet the budget resources available for such multilateral cooperation are a pittance.
The world must get serious about matching multilateral money with multilateral needs.
We share the view expressed by the academics, politicians, and experts of the international Warsaw Reflection Group that consideration should be given to the zero option as a basis for a future multilateral nuclear disarmament agreement.
The developing countries, therefore, have an interest in calling for multilateral dialogue on investment conditions in order to obtain certain collective guarantees.
Under what conditions can one reasonably hope to restart a multilateral agreement on investment?
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