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June 5, 2013

International Organizations
Global Development 2.0: Assessing a New UN Roadmap

Last week the UN’s latest “High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons” released a long-awaited report on global development. The resulting document—A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform …

British Prime Minister David Cameron and Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf prepare for the second day of the meeting of the High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda at United Nations headquarters in New York
Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick The Internationalist

March 8, 2013

The World Next Week: Chavez Dies, Strategic and Cyber Commands Testify, Russia Tries Magnitsky, and Tibetans Observe Uprising Day

The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed Hugo Chavez’s death, the Senate Armed Services Committee’s upcoming hearing on Strategic Command and Cyber Command, Russia’s decision to…

A supporter of the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez views his coffin in Caracas (Miraflores Palace Handout/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

June 13, 2013

International Organizations
The Group of Eight Summit: One Pillar of Today’s “G-x World”

It has become conventional to assert, following Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer, that we live in a “G-Zero World.” The international system lacks global leadership. Rather than concerting efforts…

The Lough Erne Golf Resort, where the G8 summit will be held next week, is seen in County Fermanagh
Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick The Internationalist

November 6, 2013

Diplomacy and International Institutions
Looking Past the Inbox: Report of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations

Every year, it seems, a new group of eminences grises issues a report deploring the state of the world and purporting to offer a roadmap out of our predicament. These documents tend to be short on im…

WTO Director-General Lamy looks on during his Commandeur de la Legion d'Honneur award ceremony at the Elysee Palace in Paris
Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick The Internationalist

February 27, 2014

International Organizations
The G20’s Growth Promise: Can They Deliver?

The G20’s Growth Promise: Can They Deliver? --Sydney, Australia Last weekend’s meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Sydney racked up some notable achievements. The most i…

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew speaks during a news conference at the G20 Central Bank Governors and Finance Ministers annual meeting in Sydney
Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick The Internationalist