Global Order and Institutions
Global Order and Institutions
About the Program

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.

With global order in flux, the future of international cooperation depends on the choices governments make today. We shape global policymaking by designing novel but practical approaches to collective action that reflect the rise of new powers, 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.

Program experts

Zachary D. Carter

Nonresident Fellow, Global Order and Institutions Program

Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar

President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Federica D'Alessandra

Federica D’Alessandra

British Academy Global Innovation Fellow, Global Order and Institutions Program

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

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It’s Already Been a Grim Month for the Planet

With the United States on the sidelines, the UN Biodiversity Conference failed to slow humanity’s “suicidal war against nature.”

· November 12, 2024
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African Strategies to Combat Illicit Financial Flows

To safeguard its financial resources, the continent needs a cohesive strategy for promoting international tax cooperation.

  • Nara Monkam
· November 12, 2024
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde speaks about "Bretton Woods After 75: Rethinking International Cooperation", during the IMF - World Bank Spring Meetings at International Monetary Fund Headquarters in Washington, DC, April 10, 2019.
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What Is Bretton Woods? The Contested Pasts and Potential Futures of International Economic Order

Calls for a new Bretton Woods elide considerable disagreement. There are many competing views of the post-1945 international economic order, and each generates alternative understanding of how Bretton Woods should guide today’s proposed reforms.

  • Matthew Hamilton
· October 22, 2024
French engineer-virologist Thomas Mollet divides a 40ml flask, infected with a Sars-CoV-2 virus, under a laminar flow at the Biosafety level 3 laboratory (BSL3) of the Valneva SE Group headquarters in Saint-Herblain, near Nantes, western France, on July 30, 2020.
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Mitigating Risks from Gene Editing and Synthetic Biology: Global Governance Priorities

Rapid advances in bioscience and bioengineering hold immense promise for human betterment. But as these disruptive technologies become more widely distributed, their inherently dual-use nature and susceptibility to unintended consequences could create unprecedented dangers.

· October 16, 2024
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BRICS Expansion, the G20, and the Future of World Order

With the addition of new members in BRICS+, the group of emerging powers will be more globally representative­—but also face more internal divisions.

· October 9, 2024
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Trade Intervention for Freer Trade: A Conversation with Michael Pettis
October 3, 2024

A new paper, Trade Intervention for Freer Trade, Michael Pettis, a nonresident senior fellow in at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Erica Hogan, a research assistant in the Carnegie Global Order and Institutions program, assess policies that could create a new global trading system that preserves the freedom of nations to direct their economies while harnessing the benefits of trade. Please join Stewart Patrick, director of the Global Order and Institutions Program, for a conversation with Michael Pettis on these and other issues.

Global trade
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Trade Intervention for Freer Trade

By targeting specific trade violations rather than balanced flows, global trade policy has been focusing on the wrong outcome. New trade rules are needed to create an international trading system in which comparative advantage allocates production.

· October 3, 2024
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The Good—and Bad—News About the UN’s Summit of the Future

The vast majority of UN member states still support multilateral cooperation, but disagreement over the scope of reform has been a major flashpoint.

· September 19, 2024
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The UN Summit of the Future: What to Expect
September 16, 2024

Join Stewart Patrick, senior fellow and director of Carnegie’s Global Order and Institutions program, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Richard Gowan, and Minh-Thu Pham for a deep dive into the rationale behind the Summit and what is—and is not—likely to be included in the Pact that emerges from it.

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Reimagining Global Economic Governance: African and Global Perspectives

Demand is growing for more representative and equitable global institutions that are capable of managing the risks and opportunities of interdependence—such as accelerating climate change and rapid technological innovation.

· September 16, 2024