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CFR Senior Fellow Stewart Patrick and Foreign Service Officer Kara McDonald discuss their report on UN Security Council Enlargement.
Senior Fellow and Director of the International Institutions and Global Governance Program
Multilateral cooperation, international institutions and global governance; United Nations; weak and failing states; foreign assistance and post-conflict reconstruction; transnational threats; U.S. foreign policy; diplomatic history.
International Institutions and Global Governance: World Order in the 21st Century
CFR Senior Fellow Stewart Patrick and Foreign Service Officer Kara McDonald discuss their report on UN Security Council Enlargement.
CFR Senior Fellow and co-author of the Council Special Report on UN Security Council Enlargement Stewart Patrick discusses his views on the role the United States should play in modernizing important international institutions.
This meeting is part of the International Institutions and Global Governance program and the Roundtable Series on the United States and the Future of Global Governance, and is made possible by a generous grant from the Robina Foundation.
On May 19, 2010, the International Institutions and Global Governance (IIGG) program held a multisession, half-day symposium on the implications of rising powers for global governance. This event was made possible through generous support from the Robina Foundation.
President Obama has heralded a "new era of global engagement." But what do publics in the United States and around the world actually think about today's global challenges-and the international institutions to cope with them? Experts inaugurate the launch of Public Opinion on Global Issues (www.cfr.org/public_opinion), the most comprehensive digest ever assembled of existing polling data on U.S. and global public attitudes toward multilateral cooperation in the twenty-first century, by analyzing and discussing these questions.
Laurie A. Garrett speaks at CFR on the global response to the H1N1 virus.
What new forms of international financial and monetary coordination and regulation are required in light of the global economic crisis? How should the United States work to reform the Bretton Woods Institutions? Should the BRICs and other developing countries have an increased role at the IMF and World Bank? What are the preconditions for a U.S.-China bargain on global monetary and financial issues?
A discussion on NATO's role in current combat and reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, as part of the Council on Foreign Relations' NATO At 60 Symposium.
Given today's global crisis, when international institutions are operating under increasing strain, the time is ripe to look back to the 1940s, when a previous generation of U.S. policymakers helped create the bedrock institutions of world order that have lasted for six decades. Please join us for a discussion of Stewart M. Patrick's new book, "The Best Laid Plans: The Origins of American Multilateralism and the Dawn of the Cold War," and its lessons and implications for today's world order.
A panel discussion on how American foreign aid will be affected by the global economic crisis.
A transcript of the CFR session three symposium on the future of conflict prevention.
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On Conversations With History, Patrick discusses the criteria for defining fragile states and for creating benchmarks for evaluating whether they pose national security threats with reference to terrorism proliferation, criminal activity, energy insecurity and infectious disease. He argues that in most cases the links are tenuous and the focus on one category obscures the challenges these states actually pose for the U.S. and the community of nations. He proposes that the United States focus on an early warning system that anticipates problem areas, identify local environments that shape harmful outcomes, engage in multilateral solutions, and de-emphasize the over reliance on military solutions.
Patrick discusses his new book, Weak Links: Fragile States, Global Threats, and International Security, with Voice of America's Eric Felten.
Stewart Patrick challenges the assumption in U.S. foreign policy that weak and failing states are universally threatening to global stability, and argues that the danger is more nuanced and contingent on many factors.
The Global Governance Monitor tracks, maps, and evaluates multilateral efforts to address today's global challenges, including armed conflict, public health, climate change, ocean governance, financial coordination, nuclear proliferation, and terrorism.
