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He refuses to note the renminbi’s large real appreciation in recent years, or to acknowledge that, while changes in China’s exchange rate may affect the bilateral trade deficit, what matters is America’s multilateral trade deficit.
In one respect, multilateral action has had a clearly positive impact: the elimination of the Syrian government’s chemical-weapons program.
In less than four years, President Bush and his advisers have cast aside much of the longstanding bipartisan consensus under which the United States works through and with multilateral institutions like the United Nations.
Consider, for example, the proliferation of wide-ranging patent-protection powers through bilateral and multilateral trade and investment agreements.
Inclusive participation by stakeholders (including the affected communities), and the development of the capacity to identify, value, and share the benefits of cross-border water resources, should be an integral part of any strategy to achieve effective multilateral collaboration.
Unless the Western victors of World War II can update the rules and institutions that underpinned the post-war international order, they will find themselves in a world with multiple competing regional orders and even dueling multilateral institutions.
Multilateral measures will also be important.
So the White House now wants to undermine the WTO’s legitimacy and rescind US commitments to a multilateral trading system more broadly.
The accord represented a revolutionary approach to comprehensive security, as well as to bilateral and multilateral relations.
Kofi Annan, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the United Nations in 2005, attempted to adjust the multilateral institutions of our world to fit its new realities.
Has the current financial and economic crisis, given its traumatic depth and the obvious responsibility of the United States as its source, created the necessary conditions and a more favourable climate for a major re-foundation of the multilateral institutions?
What is certain is that a rebalancing between North and South must start with an honest and hard-headed look at Europe’s current status in our multilateral system.
If Europeans want to regain self-confidence, pride and, collective hope, they must seize the opportunity that the necessary and inevitable adjustment of the multilateral system represents for them.
Of course, a single European voice in the major multilateral institutions appears more unrealistic than ever: who wants it, except maybe the EU’s smaller members?
If Europeans were to set for themselves the goal of speaking with one voice, of having one representative in the spectrum of multilateral institutions – starting with the UN Security Council – they would be taken more seriously.
What the world needs is a system of legal injunctions--bilateral and multilateral agreements, as well as appropriate monitoring and supervisory institutions--to regulate the use of force for humanitarian reasons.
So it is a shame that development economists and the world’s multilateral institutions are failing to apply it systematically in the developing world.
The West has therefore urged China to move toward multilateral processes that meet international standards, while doing more to provide global public goods.
China’s move into multilateral processes is good news for the world.
By getting India into the G-8 and other multilateral institutions, the US can ensure that India’s growing role in the world carries commensurate responsibilities.
Multilateral agreements are always prone to gaps in application; the international non-proliferation regime is no different.
Even before the summit began, Europeans, Canadians, Mexicans, South Koreans, and Japanese had been consulting in earnest about the need for a new alliance to save the multilateral system.
In the late 1960s, former US Secretary of State Dean Acheson looked back at the immediate post-war era and felt as though he had been “present at the creation” of a new world based on shared rules and multilateral institutions.
But Trump is far from the only threat to the multilateral order.
Without an empowered multilateral system to police abuses, countries governed by strongmen will increasingly break their promises, lie, and peddle conspiracy theories – Trump’s modus operandi.
This instinct remains tenuous, because Russia oscillates in emphasizing the multilateral or the bilateral.
In the past, Asians put a premium on protecting their sovereignty and were wary of any multilateral approaches that could dilute it.
Progress has been made on the Chiang Mai Initiative – a multilateral currency swap arrangement among the ten ASEAN members, China, Japan, and South Korea – and the possibility of an Asian Monetary Fund remains on (or at least not far off) the table.
In such a world, multilateral institutions like the International Monetary Fund play a vital role in boosting economic cooperation.
So the time may be ripe to move forward with the sort of multilateral framework for regulating cross-border investment that has been derailed several times since the 1920’s.
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