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Global Order and Institutions
Planetary Politics: Governing the Earth System and Global Commons
The current global order has failed to prevent runaway climate change and biodiversity collapse or to ensure the effective governance of the high seas and outer space. Reversing these trends will require governing the world as if the Earth mattered, as well as updating international rules to ensure the openness and stability of the global commons. In collaboration with other Carnegie experts, we will explore how to bring the multilateral system into line with planetary challenges.
Global Order and Institutions
Carnegie’s Global Order and Institutions Program identifies promising new multilateral initiatives and frameworks to realize a more peaceful, prosperous, just, and sustainable world. That mission has never been more important, or more challenging. Geopolitical competition, U.S. retrenchment, populist nationalism, economic inequality, technological innovation, and a planetary ecological emergency are testing established rules and institutions of international order and complicating collective responses to shared global threats. Our mission is to design global solutions to global problems.
With global order in flux, the future of international cooperation depends on the choices governments make. We shape global policymaking by designing novel but practical approaches to collective action that reflect the rise of new powers and the decline of old ones, bridge divides between global North and South, and leverage the capabilities of non-state actors in solving transnational challenges. Our vision is of a world in which peace prevails, international law is respected, fundamental rights are protected, the global economy delivers for all, and humanity lives in balance with nature.