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September 20, 2020
Global cooperation: New institutions for a new era?
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Racial injustice. Climate change. Gender inequality. A global pandemic.
Can our global institutions meet the challenges we’re all facing—or is it time for a new system? Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee, author Ece Temelkuran and economist Yanis Varoufakis debate the future of global cooperation.
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Do we need new institutions for a new era?
In the aftermath of the Second World War, the Allied powers laid the foundations for global institutions like the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In light of the current coronavirus pandemic, we need global cooperation now more than ever to rein in the virus and rebuild economies. Do our global institutions need to be reformed—or completely rebuilt?
As we stand at the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, Doha Debates looks even further ahead: Will our global institutions serve us for another 75 or more years, or is now the time to dismantle them and rebuild institutions that are more inclusive, more gender-balanced and more representative of the global south?
