The international system empowers every nation to act independently: to enforce the rules, or to ignore them. The future of the global order—and everything it has delivered to the world—depends on what they decide.
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Meeting the moment with AI will require a multifaceted approach with stakeholders from many sectors and disciplines. They will need to build a clear vision for larger and slower-moving global policy-centric projects to work alongside more focused and agile scientific efforts that meet pressing needs.
As BRICS has expanded its membership during the past year, it has grown to encompass nearly half of the world’s population, lending it greater credibility as a platform for reflecting an increasingly multipolar world. Yet despite this expansion, the group continues to face internal divisions.
As Malaysia joins BRICS, a diverse and at times divided group, questions remain about what the country stands to gain—and what it risks.
The 16th BRICS Summit, which took place in the Russian city of Kazan, proved to be a symbolic diplomatic victory for Vladimir Putin.
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.
In China, Ukraine and the Middle East, Washington will say that it is responding to aggression. But rather than working consistently for a return to the status quo it seems to actually be raising the stakes.
