... (the poor), or by reducing social services (especially health and educational care). In this context, by tracking the economic and social repercussions of the Covid 19 pandemic, it can be said that there is a moral and economic defect at the level of global governance when we know that there is a high speed in providing money in order to find solutions to the global financial and economic crises,. Compared to that there is caution and extreme miserliness when it comes to financing Humanitarian programs ...
... is the body's ambition growing higher? Is its appetite for meaningful change increasing? Hardly so. To argue that the UN is not today in its best shape is to state a political platitude.
Andrey Kortunov:
We Need to Create a More Inclusive System of Global Governance
There are many graphic manifestations of the serious institutional deficiencies that prevent the UN from playing its legitimate role as the centerpiece of the global governance system. The UN consistently fails to take action on violent ...
On June 24, 2020, the Accounts Chamber of Russia presented the 6th issue of the Bulletin on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
On June 24, 2020, the Accounts Chamber of Russia
presented
the 6th issue of the Bulletin on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The
new issue
of the Bulletin, issued since 1997, focuses not only on the key audit aspects, but also gives a comprehensive picture of the implementation of the SDGs in Russia and provides different points of view on this topic...
Crisis of the state system, Economic and financial disorder, the rise of non-state actors, climate change, migrations, decline of international institutions
1. Crisis of the state system.
In coming years, we are likely to see a continuous crisis of the traditional state system, particularly in such places as the MENA region, sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and in parts of the former Soviet Union. Weak states might face a challenge of losing their sovereignty; they will not be in a position to provide...
On November 22–24, 2019, Stockholm hosted an annual European Meeting of the Trilateral Commission. About three hundred politicians, businessmen, journalists, public figures, and journalists from most European countries took part in the event.
On November 22–24, 2019, Stockholm hosted an annual European Meeting of the Trilateral Commission. About three hundred politicians, businessmen, journalists, public figures, and journalists from most European countries took part in the event.
The participants...
... the current system is economically efficient and what steps could be undertaken to bring the governance framework more into line with the challenges posed by changing conditions in the world economy.
In fact, signs of a systemic malfunction in the global governance framework go beyond the standard references to global imbalances, inequality and the “new normal” of slower growth rates for longer. No less worrisome are the gaps associated with the lack of capacity to deal with environmental and ...
... focus), while continuing to depend on the positions of individual nations.
1
. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (1992) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. UNFCCC, New York
2
. Kirton J., Kokotsis E. The Global Governance of Climate Change: G7, G20, and UN Leadership. Routledge, 2016. 420 pp.
3
. An Overview of International Climate Change Law, including the Paris Agreement //
Australian Law Journal
. Vol. 92, Part 10, pp. 756–765.
4
. Climate Change ...
This book analyzes the state of global governance in the current geopolitical environment. It evaluates the main challenges and discusses potential opportunities for compromise in international cooperation. The book’s analysis is based on the universal criteria of global political ...
... to more cynicism, and opportunism in foreign policies.
So, what should we do to overcome the current crisis in international relations?
Above all, we have to agree that the critical task of the day is the task to restore and to enhance the shattered global governance. Without addressing this task, we are not going to succeed in any other undertakings. The central dividing line in the modern international system is between order and chaos. The prime building blocks of the international system are ...
... and trans-regional projects, such as Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and BRICS+ that may be seen in part as an aggregation of the existing regional blocs.
Valdai Club Report "
Regionalism in Global Governance: Exploring New Pathways
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