...María Fernanda Espinosa The multilateral system established after World War II is obsolete and insufficient to address current challenges, such as tensions between major powers and within regional blocks, inequalities, climate change, and health issues resulting from a strained power struggle...

...Lant Pritchett My argument is that while enormous progress has been made during the post–World War II “development era” during which there was substantial multilateral and bilateral development cooperation, or “foreign aid,” that era is coming to a close. The main driving forces of the end...

...Yuen Yuen Ang The current system of multilateralism, borne out of circumstances after the Second World War, is no longer fit for purpose today. How should this system be reinvented, and what types of research can contribute to its reform? First, it is not enough to tell international organizations...

...Vikram Raghavan Multilateralism occupies a vast canvas. It means different things to different people. It is studied across many disciplines from political science and international relations to history, sociology, and international law. Its theorists are as diverse as its critics (Alvarez 2000...

...Ngaire Woods The rise of geostrategic rivalry between the United States and China is changing international cooperation. As China seeks new influence and the United States seeks to contain China and to reduce its own international obligations, three dimensions of multilateralism are becoming...

... conclude with policy implications for rethinking multilateralism. 1. Correspondence: [email protected] 1 1 2022 12 9 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (4.0) , which permits unrestricted use...

... multilateral frameworks, as well as the conditions under which they are developing new work-arounds when the existing multilateral arrangements have not functioned as intended. These ad hoc multilateral and minilateral arrangements, necessitated by the crisis, have filled the gap when the expected benefits...

... sensitive information secure. We also use new data on a range of international organizations to show that such enhanced confidentiality can improve institutional effectiveness. One potential innovative solution involves secrecy. The creation of confidential information repositories in multilateral...

...Leslie Elliott Armijo The paper posits a powerful mutuality of interests between global multilateralism and independent regionalism in the global South. The more-or-less liberal international order established following the Second World War struggles to retain political and financial support from...

...J. P. Singh; Michael Woolcock In response to the numerous challenges facing contemporary multilateral organizations, and indeed the very idea of multilateralism itself, many have called for “wholesale change” yet few have provided specific details on substance or articulated how any such reforms...

...T. Renee Bowen; J. Lawrence Broz A major contributor to the crisis at the World Trade Organization is the decline in support for multilateralism in the United States. Three key problems with the organization’s design precipitated the decline. First, incomplete rules related to trade remedies...

...David R. K. Adler; Alexander E. Kentikelenis Recent commentary on the state of multilateralism begins from an alarming premise: a popular backlash against globalization is underway. The prospects for multilateralism depend, by this account, on shielding global governance from the forces of mass...

... medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Representation International Bureaucracy Multilateralism World Bank IMF In the past few decades, the two major international financial institutions (IFIs)—the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank—have faced...

..., multilateralism, international negotiations, and rising powers (with special reference to India). She has authored/edited eleven books, as well as numerous articles and chapters for edited collections. Her most recent book is Poverty Narratives in International Trade Negotiations and Beyond (Cambridge...

...Inge Kaul This article argues that one of the key questions—or even the key question—of our times is how to foster enhanced compatibility between national policy-making sovereignty and effective multilateral cooperation. There are multiple reasons for this. First, given the growing importance...