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So multilateralism works.
A Doha failure would also deal a lethal blow to the credibility and future of the WTO, which has been an almost unique example of effective and democratic multilateralism.
While transatlantic relations are a high priority, so is defending multilateralism – and all of its milestones – from reckless and unjustifiable attacks.
But the shift to a multipolar world order has not bolstered multilateralism.
Security is not the only area where sovereignty concerns have superseded multilateralism.
But, while the world may be happy to pretend that bilateral cooperation will revitalize multilateralism, nobody should be fooled.
The greater the number of countries that have the power to block or veto international initiatives, the more difficult multilateralism becomes – and the less motivated dominant countries are to cooperate.
It was a textbook case of how multilateralism could work.
For a long time, small, well-managed, and open economies were the leading beneficiaries of the Bretton Woods system and, more generally, of multilateralism.
Similarly, bilateral payment agreements – which, not long ago, most countries would have opposed via the IMF, owing to their inconsistency with multilateralism – are proliferating.
The second key ingredient is multilateralism.
What use is vocal multilateralism, what use are German leaders’ lofty speeches about international law being exercised by the Security Council, if Germany refuses to endorse a resolution for the protection of Libya’s citizens from a brutal regime employing all means at its disposal in its fight for survival?
How a government behaves at home (for example, protecting a free press), in international institutions (consulting others and multilateralism), and in foreign policy (promoting development and human rights) can affect others by the influence of its example.
On the contrary, it would compel member states’ governments to look beyond narrow national interest, defend openness and multilateralism, and confront head-on the exclusionary political forces that have lately been gaining ground.
We need it – together with the multilateralism on which it is built – to confront many of the economic, environmental, and strategic challenges we now face, challenges that cannot be addressed at the national level.
Instead, it must continue to advance the union, and show the world what multilateralism can do.
Just as Britain negotiates its exit from the EU, the consensus-based multilateralism of the post-war era is being supplanted by muscular nationalism.
To that end, it is now up to the EU to lead on diplomacy, and to demonstrate to Trump that multilateralism is far more effective than diplomatic hooliganism.
So the debate about unilateralism vs. multilateralism has been greatly oversimplified.
American foreign policy should have a general preference for multilateralism, but not all forms multilateralism.
Even a solitary superpower should follow this rule of thumb: try multilateralism first.
Indeed, he was proclaiming his commitment to internationalism and multilateralism.
But is Obama’s inaugural address an indication of a renewed vigor for US-backed/led multilateralism?
But his administration’s persistent failure to address the crisis in Syria effectively, along with its backseat approach in Mali, suggests that such concerted multilateralism was an exception.
A second-term shift toward institutional multilateralism would embrace such action.
The real test of Trump’s stance on multilateralism will be how he approaches the WTO.
Leveraging the World Bank’s Capital IncreasePARIS – In April, governments from around the world agreed to a $13 billion capital increase for the World Bank Group, sending a clear signal that multilateralism is far from dead.
The WBG’s capital increase offers reassurance at a critical moment for multilateralism.
Russia and China dislike the United States’ claim to global leadership, enjoy tweaking its tail whenever they can, want greater regional influence, and (like the US itself) periodically turn their back on cooperative multilateralism.
They applauded him everywhere on his recent trip to Europe, but sent him home almost empty-handed, resisting the idea of a coordinated fiscal stimulus and, after years of preaching multilateralism, turning down his call for more European troops for Afghanistan.
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