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
Stewart Patrick contends that assumptions about the threats posed by failing states--or "weak links"--are based on anecdotal arguments and challenges the conventional wisdom through systematic empirical analysis.
See more in International Peace and Security
Kara C. McDonald and Stewart M. Patrick offer recommendations for U.S. leadership in United Nations Security Council reform and expansion.
See more in United States, UN
A major strategic challenge for the United States in the coming decades will be integrating emerging powers into international institutions.
See more in United States, Global Governance
President Obama's Asia trip was marked by trade-related letdowns, missed opportunities, and fresh reminders that divergences of interests could be hard to finesse, say four CFR experts.
See more in Asia, U.S. Strategy and Politics
Stewart M. Patrick and Emma Welch assess the debate over an international conventional arms trade treaty and find that U.S. domestic objections are unfounded.
See more in United States, UN, Arms Control and Disarmament
Stewart M. Patrick says failed states are mainly a threat to their own inhabitants, but they still need help from the global community.
See more in Global Governance, International Peace and Security, Humanitarian Intervention
Stewart M. Patrick discusses the no-fly zone in Libya and "responsibility to protect."
See more in Global Governance, UN, International Peace and Security, Humanitarian Intervention
Stewart M. Patrick examines the relevance of the G20 framework in a web of existing multilateral institutions and groupings.
See more in United States, Global Governance, International Organizations, Intergovernmental Organizations
Stewart M. Patrick says Brazil's recent involvement in tensions between Iran and the United States underscored Brazil's determination to play on the global stage, but it may also have harmed Brazil's chances for a UN Security Council seat.
Stewart M. Patrick discusses the future of global engagement by the United States.
See more in United States, Global Governance
In this chapter of the edited volume Cooperating for Peace and Security, Stewart Patrick discusses the United States and multilateral cooperation after 9/11.
See more in Defense/Homeland Security, Global Governance, Terrorism and the Law
Stewart Patrick declares that "tremendous forces are eroding the institutional foundations of world politics," citing the rising powers in Asia, transnational issues like climate change and other factors as reasons for this tectonic shift.
See more in Global Governance, International Organizations, International Peace and Security
Stewart M. Patrick reviews Too Poor for Peace? by Lael Brainard and Derek Chollet.
See more in Global Governance, International Peace and Security, Poverty
This chapter by Stewart Patrick is excerpted from the book The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President and addresses how the United States must reformulate how it handles failing, failed and war-torn states.
See more in International Peace and Security, U.S. Election 2008
Stewart Patrick contends that assumptions about the threats posed by failing states--or "weak links"--are based on anecdotal arguments and challenges the conventional wisdom through systematic empirical analysis.
See more in International Peace and Security
A look at the long-standing but unresolved debate of the virtues and values of multilateralism verus unilateralism in American foreign policy.
See more in United States, U.S. Strategy and Politics
Kara C. McDonald and Stewart M. Patrick offer recommendations for U.S. leadership in United Nations Security Council reform and expansion.
See more in United States, UN
State Department Policy Planning staff member Stewart Patrick gave these remarks at the Lewis and Clark College forty-second Annual International Affairs Symposium, The Suffering of Strangers: Global Humanitarian Intervention in a Turbulent World, April 5-7, 2004.
See more in Humanitarian Intervention, U.S. Strategy and Politics
The upcoming NATO summit will include talks on the endgame in Afghanistan, a new smart defense doctrine, and bolstering global partnerships, all of it colored by fundamental questions about the role and mission of the alliance, says CFR's Stewart Patrick.
G20 leaders will be tested this week to act on sovereign debt crises and potential global economic upheaval. Stewart Patrick says a proper response would be for leaders to follow their own promises from previous summits.
See more in Economics, International Organizations
This year's daunting UN challenges for President Obama: navigating the Palestinian statehood thicket and convincing Americans that UN diplomacy matters, writes CFR's Stewart Patrick.
See more in UN, U.S. Strategy and Politics
The G8 summit affirmed the group's importance as a U.S. partner as it seeks a common front on the "Arab Spring" uprisings, and in forging collective action on human rights and security matters, says CFR's Stewart Patrick.
See more in Geoeconomics, Global Governance, International Peace and Security
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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.
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