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But this is the wrong way to go, for it might serve only to erode one of the few effective mechanisms in place to make multilateral agreements binding.
Just last month, US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew trumpeted Doing Business in congressional testimony justifying American support for multilateral development banks.
Greece vetoed the Republic of Macedonia’s bids to join Western alliances and multilateral institutions, even as its neighbors Bulgaria and Albania were accepted into NATO and, in the case of Bulgaria, into the European Union.
These developments hold out the hope that the US will adopt a more multilateral approach to foreign policy in 2004.
But the US gradually, if imperfectly, built up trust through multilateral institutions.
But even that limited functionality has lately been obscured, owing largely to Trump’s treatment of multilateral fora not as important mechanisms to coordinate international action, but rather as opportunities to project strength.
The initiative should also encourage free movement of goods and people within the region, by lifting the customs restrictions and complicated procedures that hinder bilateral and multilateral trade.
More broadly, the WTO’s multilateral approach has shown its worth by preventing a massive increase in trade barriers, unlike in 1929-1930, when protectionism helped deepen and broaden the Great Depression.
A second initiative is climate-related financing offered by multilateral development banks (MDBs).
Money from bilateral and multilateral donors, along with coordinated technical assistance and capacity-building programs, would provide incentives for power producers to generate renewable energy.
The Stability Pact has now been transferred to local control, re-emerging as the Sarajevo-based Regional Cooperation Council, ready to develop regional and multilateral standards for its members.
Moreover, the conditionality and close monitoring typically associated with the multilateral institutions make them less attractive sources of financing.
These trends are remarkable in light of the shocks from the surge in oil prices, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, international terrorism, and the breakdown of multilateral trade negotiations.
The UN report observes that national economic policies and existing multilateral settings are not designed to mitigate effectively the risk of a global slowdown or to address global imbalances.
The multilateral surveillance mechanisms launched last year by the IMF are a step in the right direction, but only if they become part of an institutionalized multilateral mechanism of surveillance and policy coordination.
The best way to bring about such institutional re-engineering would be to rewrite multilateral rules.
America’s Free-Trade AbdicationNEW YORK – The indifference and apathy that one finds in Washington from both the Congress and President Barack Obama on the Doha Round of world trade talks, and the alarm and concern expressed by statesmen elsewhere over the languishing negotiations, mark the end of the post-1945 era of American leadership on multilateral free trade.
The US and India should expand cooperation on other multilateral issues as well.
Nor is there an overarching mechanism, as called for in the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, that would align Chinese aid with national development strategies, or establish a forum for coordination with other bilateral and multilateral donors.
With multilateral talks floundering – the WTO’s Doha Round talks stalled again this summer, as India blocked implementation of the “Bali Package,” the modest agreement reached at last year’s ministerial conference – some of the WTO’s largest members, notably the US and EU, are pursuing bilateral and regional trade agreements.
But the WTO’s consensus norm has helped to ensure that such agreements do not undermine the global trading system’s multilateral core.
Trade governance has remained fundamentally multilateral.
More broadly, it threatens to rob the world of a new and innovative approach to global governance and multilateral diplomacy at a time when such approaches are badly needed.
In his Senate confirmation hearing, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told lawmakers that a central flaw with the TPP was that it required multilateral negotiation.
More generally, the multilateral approach created a bandwagon effect, with a number of countries already positioning to join the TPP once the initial deal was struck.
With dedicated support from governments, industry, civil society, and multilateral agencies, decentralized renewables can do more than illuminate a continent; they can also put it to work.
Trade and monetary agreements are still reached, but they increasingly take the form of regional and bilateral deals, rather than multilateral arrangements, thereby serving broader geopolitical goals.
But Wilson’s solution would likely focus on developing and implementing improved regulations through a multilateral process dominated by democracies.
Clinton Administration support for the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico, completion of the Uruguay Round on multilateral trade, and recent agreement to admit China into the World Trade Organization, are all accomplishments in support of global trade.
Multilateral engagement is essential for dealing with these threats.
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