Tag: Multilateralism

The United Nations is in crisis. Secretary-General António Guterres has mandated 20 percent across-the-board spending cuts, amounting to more than $700 million. The proximate cause of the pinch is the ...

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, where John has had an eventful week reacquainting himself with the United Nations HQ’s maze of hallways and stairwells ahead of the U.N. ...

As the era of U.S. primacy comes to an end, academics and policymakers have quite naturally been debating what comes next. Will the emergence of a multipolar world prove inherently ...

In recent years, the Western public discussion has been full of laments over the collapse of the so-called rules-based international order established in the aftermath of World War II. Some ...

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, where at least one of your co-authors is spending the long July 4 holiday weekend at the beach in Delaware. (No sighting thus ...

Fifty years ago, West African leaders gathered in Lagos, Nigeria, to establish the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the continent’s first post-independence regional bloc. Today, it stands as ...

With the Trump administration taking a wrecking ball to the international order that the United States built, it is unclear what of it will survive. It is worth reflecting on ...