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Intrusive and before. The threats of catastrophic cli- economically misguided International mate change and biodiversity collapse Monetary Fund programmes were demonstrate the increased importance considered proof that these institutions of global commons and the urgency of were at the service of the Western coordinating responses at global level. powers. A decade later, the multilateral But the need for collective action also response to the euro crisis was regarded arises from risks to financial stability, as further evidence of this built-in bias. threats to internet security, tax avoid- The global financial crisis did ance by multinational firms and mass not result in a permanent upgrade migration, to name only some of the to global governance. The response most prominent challenges. to the financial meltdown and the The 1990s represented the ensuing recession was swift and high water mark of the collective forceful, and the elevation of the G20 action model characteristic of the to leaders’ level adjusted the political post-second world war system. leadership body to the new reality of This system relied on universal, the global economy. But nevertheless treaty-based institutions tasked with changes to the rules and institutions the organisation of international of global governance fell short of the cooperation and the enforcement of leaders’ 2009 promise that “a global legally binding rules in major fields crisis requires a global solution”1. of interdependence. At the time, the Financial regulation was upgraded, template became truly universal as but international macroeconomic membership of the Bretton Woods coordination was short-lived and institutions was extended to Russia hopes that the crisis would provide an and the former Soviet bloc, while opportunity to reform the international preparations were made for Chinese monetary system were frustrated. and Russian membership of the World The urgency of climate change Trade Organisation. However, efforts to mitigation has not resulted in a replicate this template in fields such as revival of the post-war template. At investment, competition and climate Kyoto in 1997 and Copenhagen in 2009, action have been frustrated. attempts to create a legally binding, Once regarded as a milestone enforceable system of negotiated on the way to completing the emission reduction commitments institutional architecture of failed. The Paris Agreement of 2015 globalisation, the creation of the WTO was based on an entirely different did not achieve its aims. Since the paradigm: national ‘contributions’ that mid-1990s, multilateral negotiations are unilaterally determined and non- have stalled, trade governance binding. The expected effectiveness has fragmented into a myriad of of the collective endeavour to contain preferential agreements, and China’s the rise in temperature relies on soft membership of the WTO has failed to mechanisms: review procedures, peer trigger the convergence of its economic pressure and the involvement of non- system (let alone its political system) state participants. with the Western model. The essential The governance of the internet principles of the General Agreement epitomises the obsolescence of the on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and post-war model. The emergence the dispute settlement mechanism of the first truly global, borderless 1. G20 London Summit – instituted with the creation of the WTO infrastructure has essentially been Leaders’ Statement, 2 April were nevertheless upheld, until the based on uncoordinated state and 2009, available at https:// Trump administration’s deliberate private initiatives based on broad www.imf.org/external/ np/sec/pr/2009/pdf/ sabotage undermined the core tenets of principles and a series of information g20_040209.pdf. the post-war order. exchange protocols. Its governance 3 POLICY BRIEF COLLECTIVE ACTION IN A FRAGMENTED WORLD structures have remained weak and concerns over national sovereignty are informal, and all attempts to give on the rise nearly everywhere. them a more formal structure have The stance of the Trump ended in deadlock. Since the start of administration is currently the single the decade divergent preferences on most significant obstacle to global privacy and the limits of free speech, collective action. Its worldview does and more fundamentally state control not build on the premise that a series over national citizens, have given rise of issues require global cooperation to a process of balkanisation. The unity and that well-structured joint action of the internet is a thing of the past and can yield benefits for all participants. the question now is what geometry will It favours a transactional approach emerge from its fragmentation. to international relations and regards The historic core of the global most international issues as zero-sum regime – trade and finance games. arrangements – is undergoing a However, US grievances against, process of fragmentation. Global and doubts about global rules rules and institutions are still there, and institutions did not start with but their authority is fast diminishing. Trump. Already in the 1940s, the Existing multilateral arrangements US Congress rejected membership lost muscle already in the 2000s and of the US-designed International the early 2010s, and the process is Trade Organisation. President accelerating. A new geography made Clinton objected to
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