Today’s complex global challenges call for novel experiments and innovations in international cooperation. We propose reforms to update existing multilateral institutions and to create new frameworks that are fit for purpose and leverage the capabilities of emerging powers and non-state actors. We examine the trade-offs these alternative arrangements pose for global problem-solving, national sovereignty, and the revival of multilateralism in the new multipolar moment.
Models of cultural evolution have the potential to illuminate both the history and current dynamics of world politics, and to inform strategies and institutions needed to advance international peace, shared prosperity, human dignity, and planetary habitability.