The world’s multilateral machinery is slowing at the precise moment crises are multiplying, yet global cooperation measured across trade, capital, technology, climate, health and security is proving more resilient than expected.
In other words, while overall cooperation is continuing at a steady rate, this allyship is increasingly happening among smaller groups, rather than between many countries.
That is the central finding of the latest Global Cooperation Barometer, published by the World Economic Forum, which finds that formal, UN-centred action is increasingly outpaced by conflict…
