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Mark Malloch-Brown

Mark Malloch-Brown

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Mark Malloch-Brown, a former deputy United Nations secretary-general and co-chair of the UN Foundation, is a former president of the Open Society Foundations.

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  1. Is the UN Becoming Irrelevant?
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    Is the UN Becoming Irrelevant?

    Jun 10, 2024 Mark Malloch-Brown, et al. consider whether, and how, the world's premier multilateral forum can remain effective.

  2. The Outlook for Multilateralism in 2024
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    The Outlook for Multilateralism in 2024

    Dec 11, 2023 Mark Malloch-Brown considers whether sorely needed reforms to global-governance institutions are still possible or likely.

  3. Africa Is the Future of Multilateralism
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    Africa Is the Future of Multilateralism

    Sep 29, 2023 Mark Malloch-Brown explains why the continent should be at the forefront of efforts to bring about international reforms.

  4. Leveling the Financial Playing Field for Africa
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    Leveling the Financial Playing Field for Africa

    May 30, 2023 Amadou Hott & Mark Malloch-Brown propose ways to redress longstanding inequities and enable African-led solutions to succeed.

  5. Kofi Annan’s Lessons in Global Leadership
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    Kofi Annan’s Lessons in Global Leadership

    May 13, 2022 Nane Annan, et al. argue that today’s crises call for leaders who reflect the former UN secretary-general’s virtues.

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    What Trump’s Tariff Critics Are Getting Wrong

    Lori Wallach laments the Democratic Party’s misguided criticism of a potentially effective policy tool.
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    Europe’s Security Depends on a European Energy Union

    Ana Palacio advocates a pragmatic approach to reviving the EU’s competitiveness and bolstering its strategic autonomy.
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    Authoritarianism Is Turkey’s Biggest Economic Risk

    Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan

    More than just a popular mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu is a national symbol of the political pluralism and democratic possibility that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sought to quash. Given the precarious state of the Turkish economy, his sudden arrest and imprisonment may prove to be the last straw.

    believes the current mass protests are about more than the arrest of the country’s leading opposition figure.
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    Asia Must Unite to Survive Trump 2.0

    Lee Jong-Wha highlights ways the region's economies can boost their resilience and global influence.
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    Europe and the Next World Order

    Sigmar Gabriel & Peter Eitel observe that the continent has once again become the fulcrum of global politics.
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    Trump’s $16 Trillion Trade Blind Spot

    Ricardo Hausmann identifies the fundamental flaw in the administration’s efforts to dismantle the postwar international order.
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    A World Turned Inside Out

    Stephen S. Roach

    The geostrategic shock that has accompanied Donald Trump’s return to the White House is the functional equivalent of a full-blown crisis. It is likely to have a lasting impact on the US and Chinese economies, and the contagion is almost certain to spread throughout the world through cross-border trade and capital flows.

    likens Donald Trump’s reversal of America’s global leadership role to a full-blown crisis, similar to COVID-19.
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    Jorge Heine on the BRICS, active non-alignment, the US dollar, and more

    Jorge Heine urges the Organization of American States to demonstrate leadership in Haiti, shows how small countries can implement a foreign policy based on active non-alignment, calls on China and Europe to diversify the global monetary system, and more.
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    Financial Inclusion Must Reach the Last Billion

    Wolfgang Fengler explains why economic growth alone is not enough to extend the ladder of opportunity to all.

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