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But the costs are high, insofar as such agreements undercut the very multilateralism that in general serves the EU well.
The rest of the world increasingly sees the EU’s multilateralism as a means of legitimizing European intervention in the affairs of weaker states and excluding rising powers’ involvement in European affairs.
First, it is clear that bilateralism is growing as multilateralism wanes.
Moreover, since 2008, US trade policy has deliberately abandoned multilateralism in order to pursue containment of China via a two-pronged strategy: the planned Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the TTIP.
Indeed, the proliferation of bilateral agreements, with their own mechanisms for resolving differences, will inevitably weaken the WTO’s dispute-settlement mechanism, further undermining multilateralism.
The need to revive multilateralism is all the more important given that EU-US negotiations will likely be difficult and prolonged, owing especially to resistance from European and American regulators.
We stand on the threshold of a new multilateralism.
This reform represents a victory for multilateralism that demonstrates ownership of how Fund surveillance will be strengthened and members’ willingness to live up to their responsibilities in the process.
If the EU can rediscover its democratic potential, the alt-right will no longer have grounds on which to launch attacks against international cooperation and multilateralism.
The very principles of multilateralism, a key pillar of global governance, seem to have become a relic from a distant past.
But the growing perception in the US is that multilateralism puts more constraints on its own behavior than on China’s.
The EU, China, and a few others – including, one hopes, the US at some point – should be the ones to take the initiative, salvaging those aspects of the old multilateralism that remain useful, but fusing them into new arrangements that are fairer, more flexible, and more appropriate for today’s world.
This calls for a new form of inclusive multilateralism – one that can also be applied to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, which complement the Paris agreement’s commitments.
A Fragmented Multilateralism?
WASHINGTON, DC – Amid ongoing attacks by US President Donald Trump, the battle for the future of multilateralism has commenced.
Although multilateralism had made substantial progress since the end of the Second World War, there was a need for continuous reform, owing to changes in the structure of the world economy.
But the debate about the WTO’s fate is part of a wider discussion concerning multilateralism, which includes the United Nations, the G20, and the IMF.
The second alternative is the current system, in which countries use global multilateralism to enforce common rules.
Does this mean we should adopt the third system, a fragmented multilateralism, with not much room for global institutions?
Political scientist John Ruggie made the case in 1982 that post-World War II multilateralism and free trade was the result of a “compromise of embedded liberalism.”
He was right, but unfortunately many of America's friends saw the first eight months of his administration as arrogantly concerned with narrow American interests, focused on military power, and dismissive of treaties, norms, and multilateralism.
Granted, multilateralism can be used by smaller states to restrict American freedom of action, but this does not mean that it is not generally in American interests.
With the Trump administration lacking enthusiasm for multilateralism of any kind, and perhaps owing to lingering hopes that the old multilateral order can be preserved, no one is so much as attempting to develop feasible alternatives.
Successful multilateral responses, like the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, continue to be supported by more flexible global platforms, such as the Nuclear Threat Initiative, based on relationships and trust established outside the box of formal multilateralism.
Here, too, the world will need to create informal platforms that supplement traditional multilateralism.
The summit should be designed to highlight the critical advantages of cooperation and rebuff the emerging view that multilateralism is simply a burden to bear.
Fourth, NATO can not only bring important military capabilities to the table, reducing the drain on American forces in a turbulent world; it also offers a much more plausible vehicle for serious foreign-policy multilateralism than either the EU or the UN.
The absence of such an important player from the fight against climate change could undermine new forms of multilateralism, even if it reinvigorates climate activism as global public opinion turns against the US.
Nixon intrinsically distrusted multilateralism.
Yet we know that such priorities are best served when we are not alone, and in an international system based on multilateralism and rules, not on global policemen and lone warriors.
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