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This leaves today’s European Union at the mercy of a US that has rejected multilateralism and embraced nationalism.
In France, for example, many are brushing off the warnings issued by Macron – or, more concretely, by their history books – as they push back against their president’s efforts to take up the mantle of multilateralism.
After all, while the BRICS still emphasize the importance of multilateralism, it is clear that they are not wedded to the current international order.
Indeed, opinion polls in America show little popular taste for empire and continuing support for multilateralism and using the UN.
For example, despite the world’s unprecedented interconnectedness, multilateralism is increasingly being eschewed, as countries – most notably, Donald Trump’s US – pursue unilateral, isolationist policies.
When the Internet became global, its management was turned over to ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which enlists the voices of individual Internet users in its governance – a significant departure from intergovernmental multilateralism.
Although multilateralism is a slow and often painful process of cultivating consensus, some issues are so large that they transcend any one country.
Multilateralism should be preserved, with or without the US.
George W. Bush, long a skeptic about global warming, and long committed to undermining multilateralism, remains America’s president.
The European Union remains preoccupied with its own internal disputes, and the United States, under President Donald Trump, has abandoned multilateralism and weakened the institutions needed to solve complex challenges such as the threat of technological unemployment from automation.
But while the world’s economic giants have been withdrawing from multilateralism, Africa has been quietly moving in the opposite direction.
But, despite its embrace of multilateralism, Africa has struggled to get the G20’s attention.
What will be their preferred mix of unilateralism and multilateralism, and which tools – from diplomacy and sanctions to intelligence operations and military force – will they reach for most often?
But multilateralism is undergoing a transformation of its own, driven by doubts about the legitimacy of existing structures.
Making matters worse, in the three years since world leaders agreed to the SDGs, there has been a growing backlash against multilateralism.
While Trump’s focus on bilateral trade balances betrays a lack of understanding of how trade works – multilateralism functions better than bilateralism, as it is less likely to leave one economy beholden to another – it also makes the bilateral TFT strategy more straightforward to implement.
Worse, while promoting multilateralism on the world stage, China has given the cold shoulder to multilateral cooperation among river-basin states.
EU leaders like to talk about “effective multilateralism,” but they are not very effective at defending their values or interests in multilateral institutions like the United Nations.
They will be unwilling or unable to provide the kind of leadership that sustained multilateralism in the decades that followed World War II.
Protectionism is no solution to the crisis, whereas a transatlantic free-trade agreement would favor multilateralism and openness.
Putin, like Trump, is a warrior for national greatness against the evil forces of multilateralism and cultural pluralism.
While Trump’s desire to prop up politically important industries and reduce the US current-account deficit has certainly played a role in his trade policy, it is clear that his main target is the WTO and the multilateralism that it represents.
Trump seems to think that multilateralism dilutes American power, given that the US can always use its economic and geopolitical clout to win a bilateral dispute.
To be sure, the ESS’s three basic tenets – development assistance, soft power, and effective multilateralism – remain important.
In this case, the problem comes down to a lack of commitment, with the EU choosing the convenience of informal and ad hoc groupings over the challenge of reforming key institutions like the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank, which are essential for effective multilateralism.
But if we are to move forward rather than revert to earlier, more dangerous times, the US, in particular, must reassert a constructive role in multilateralism.
Though the other 11 countries have continued to move the deal forward, in the form of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), America’s departure has undermined momentum toward greater trade multilateralism.
The United States gave the world the doctrine of liberal, rule-based multilateralism – a regime whose many blemishes highlight the lofty principles according to which the system has generally functioned.
And they must work to uphold the bedrock principles of the global economy that have served it – and them – so well in the last 60 years: non-discrimination and multilateralism.
European governments repeat the mantra of “effective multilateralism,” but they seem to have no comprehensive strategy for translating this into coherent policy.
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