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, populist nationalism, economic inequality, technological innovation, and a planetary ecological emergency are testing the rules-based international order and complicating collective responses to shared threats. Our mission is to design global solutions to global problems.
Zachary D. Carter
Nonresident Fellow, Global Order and Institutions Program
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar
President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Oona A. Hathaway
Nonresident Scholar, Global Order and Institutions Program
Stewart Patrick
Senior Fellow and Director, Global Order and Institutions Program
Minh-Thu Pham
Nonresident Scholar, Global Order and Institutions Program
An obsession with growth has generated massive inequality, undermined global economic stability, and weakened faith in democracy. Reversing these trends requires reining in the power of financial capital and managing global trade flows.
Faith in hyper-globalization has collapsed, but what new narrative and institutions will succeed it? A look at the past provides hints of what is to come.
Climate policy must go beyond purely economic targets. Effective policymaking must also mobilize societies because success depends on their solidarity and agency.
Addressing the problem of impunity requires addressing not just the absence of criminal accountability for the clearly unlawful acts of the president in the United States but also the long-standing absence of accountability for the clearly unlawful acts of the president and the government the president leads around the globe.
Nonamendment reform can enable the body to meet the challenges of the moment when the Security Council is paralyzed by the veto.
The UN Security Council’s paralysis amid the war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas conflict has deepened skepticism about the body’s capacity to advance collective security and promote the rule of law.
In a groundbreaking new book rooted in history and earth science, scholars Jonathan Blake and Nils Gilman advocate a paradigm shift toward “multiscalar” global governance that would transfers significant political authority from national governments to planetary institutions, as well as to localities.
National security, technological innovation, and economic development depend on them.
If the United States and Israel truly believe there is no legal basis for the charges by the International Criminal Court, they should call the ICC prosecutor’s bluff. Israel should launch a genuine investigation of its own.
