Thread: Program on Global Governance World Order in the 21st Century

Program on Global Governance
World Order in the 21st Century

A New Initiative of the Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations has launched a comprehensive five-year program on global governance. The purpose of this cross-cutting initiative is to explore the institutional requirements for world order in the twenty-first century. The undertaking recognizes that the architecture of global governance—largely reflecting the world as it existed in 1945—has not kept pace with fundamental changes in the international system, including but not limited to globalization. Existing multilateral arrangements thus provide an inadequate foundation for addressing today’s most pressing threats and opportunities and for advancing U.S. national and broader global interests. The program seeks to identify critical weaknesses in current frameworks for multilateral cooperation; propose specific reforms tailored to new global circumstances; and promote constructive U.S. leadership in building the capacities of existing organizations and in sponsoring new, more effective regional and global institutions and partnerships.

The program draws on the resources of the Council’s David Rockefeller Studies Program to assess existing regional and global governance mechanisms and offer concrete recommendations for U.S. policymakers on specific reforms needed to improve their performance, both to advance U.S. national interests and to ensure the provision of critical global public goods. The program will take an issue area approach, focusing on arrangements governing state conduct and international cooperation in meeting four broad sets of challenges: (1) Countering Transnational Threats, including terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and infectious disease; (2) Protecting the Environment and Promoting Energy Security; (3) Managing the Global Economy; and (4) Preventing and Responding to Violent Conflict. In each of these spheres, the program will consider whether the most promising framework for governance is a formal organization with universal membership (e.g., the United Nations); a regional or sub-regional organization; a narrower, informal coalition of like-minded countries; or some combination of all three. Building on these issue-area investigations, the program will also consider the potential to adapt major bedrock institutions (e.g., the UN, G8, NATO, IMF) to meet today’s challenges, as well as the feasibility of creating new frameworks. It will also address the participation of non-state actors.

The program falls squarely within the Council’s historic mission as an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries. In fulfilling its mandate, the program draws on the Council’s unique attributes as a premier think tank on matters of foreign policy; as a prominent forum for convening American and international statesmen and opinion leaders; and as a platform for forging bipartisan consensus on the priorities, terms, and conditions of the nation’s global engagement. Throughout its activities, the Council will engage stakeholders and constituencies in the United States and abroad, including governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society representatives, and the private sector, whose input and endorsement are critical to ensure the appropriateness and feasibility of any institutional reforms. The program is led by Senior Fellow Stewart Patrick.

This concept note summarizes the rationale for the program, describes potential areas of research and policy engagement, and outlines the envisioned products and activities. We believe that the research and policy agenda outlined here constitutes a potentially significant contribution to U.S. and international deliberations on the requirements for world order in the twenty-first century.

RATIONALE AND CONTEXT
The Significance of the Issue

The creation of new frameworks for global governance will be a defining challenge for the twenty-first century world, and the attitude of the United States will be among the most important factors in determining the shape and stability of the world order that results from these efforts. The need for a reformed, robust system of multilateral cooperation has never been more obvious. Today’s global agenda is dominated by a host of issues—from terrorism to climate change to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction—that no single country, no matter how powerful, can address on its own. Tomorrow’s challenges and policy agendas will only be more transnational in scope. At the same time, existing multilateral institutions are increasingly divorced from global realities, hindering their capacity to deliver global public goods and mitigate global “bads.â€

For those that are not upset yet, pls read "The Late, Great USA--the coming merger with Mexico and Canada." As the CFR agenda hints a North American Union is just the first step to loss of any national sovreignty. To me it seems, anything goes when it comes to borders, laws of countries, those take a back seat to the most important thing in the world: profits for private enterprise.

This is Treason and Sedition; Pure and Simple. It's time to round up the CFR, David Rockefeller and put them on trial in front of the American People

That goes for any other politician or citizen of this country that want global governance without the American Citizens permission; the trials will soon begin

Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

This is Treason and Sedition; Pure and Simple. It's time to round up the CFR, David Rockefeller and put them on trial in front of the American People

I agree with you AirborneSapper, but these scumbags have infiltrated every part of government at all levels. A daunting thought.

If all Americans stood together against these traitors, we could put an end
to this evilness.

I'm always shocked anew as to how purely evil these people are.

I'm glad they posted it on their site for all to see.

IS IT TREASON? CAN THEY GET DEATH? FOR TRYING TO OVER THROW THE UNITED STATES IF OTHERS AIDED AND ABETTED WOULD THEY BE GUILTY, TOO. JUST WONDERING

WHO KNOWS? LET US KNOW

Anyone notice they want us to rethink sovereignty?

Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

This is Treason and Sedition; Pure and Simple. It's time to round up the CFR, David Rockefeller and put them on trial in front of the American People

That goes for any other politician or citizen of this country that want global governance without the American Citizens permission; the trials will soon begin

Reign in the maggots!

Originally Posted by jp_48504

Anyone notice they want us to rethink sovereignty?

Yes, I noticed that. I read another report from their site, maybe a year ago that was even more specific about the benefits of less sovereignty. Nice to know that our two presidential candidates are members, huh?