The profoundly uninspiring 2018 Summit of the Americas should be seen as a wasted opportunity of epic proportions. More sophisticated regional cooperation in the realms of migration, surging violence and crime, drug trafficking, and democracy is crucial to help nations across the Western Hemisphere overcome the many domestic challenges they face.

The Asia-Pacific response to Trump’s protectionist policies could drastically change the shape of the regional trade architecture.

The Global Compact for Migration is hampered by an absence of leadership within the UN system and increasing polarization and nationalism around the world. Political buy-in, support, and a positive disposition among negotiating UN members are essential if the compact is to become a sustainable blueprint for migration.

The Trump administration’s approach to ten critical global summits in the year ahead will show whether its pullback from multilateralism in 2017 was an aberration or the start of a new normal.

The Paris Agreement on climate will survive without the United States, but hitting its milestones over the next few years will likely be more difficult.

This year’s G20 summit, in Buenos Aires, will be an important opportunity for Argentina to embody a more egalitarian view of development and show itself as a modern developing country eager to work with the rest of the world to tackle global governance challenges. Argentina's G20 plan of action should also include policies that increase protection for workers confronted by a disruptive and rapid phenomenon: the “fourth industrial revolution.”