The world is experiencing an acute period of change and contestation. A backlash against
the perceived uneven benefits of globalization has fundamentally reshaped national politics across the world, from the UK’s vote to leave the European Union to the election of President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil. Major global challenges such as climate change, intercontinental migration, demographic shifts and the transformation of work by new technologies require global responses.
However, these are increasingly obstructed by the reassertion of domestic political priorities and a subsequent weakening of multilateral cooperation.