On Jan. 7, Indonesia officially became a full member of BRICS. With the addition of the world’s fourth-most-populous country and eighth-largest economy by purchasing power, the bloc now encompasses ...

The Multilateralism Index 2024 reveals a contradiction: while participation in the multilateral system has largely held steady or even increased, its effectiveness in addressing global challenges has ...

Free trade seems to have few supporters these days. Though actual trade volumes are recovering from the post-crisis recession and drop in commodity prices, “globalization” has become increasingly ...

The UN General Assembly President, Annalena Baerbock, on Wednesday pointed to a "more urgent make-or-break moment" in the new year across the globe and warned that the global multilateral system is ...

Donald Trump's policy of imposing tariffs could lead to more protectionism and slower growth in the global economy as well as more inflation, economists say. Yet, the global development financing ...

The international order is evolving quickly, with new cooperation mechanisms replacing inferior multilateral frameworks. One major trend has been the “minilateralization” of multilateralism, whereby ...

FILE PHOTO: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director general of the World Trade Organization attends an interview with Reuters in Geneva, Switzerland, September 2, 2025. REUTERS/Cecile Mantovani/File Photo ...

This week I am cheating—producing a column written by someone else. There are two reasons for that. I have been out of town for a conference, making it hard to find time to write, and the fact sheet I ...