The rules-based world order is under unprecedented strain, buffeted by geopolitical competition, populist nationalism, technological innovation, transnational threats, and a planetary ecological emergency. Carnegie’s Global Order and Institutions Program analyzes the shifting landscape of international cooperation and identifies promising new multilateral initiatives and institutions to advance a more peaceful, prosperous, just, and sustainable world.
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Zachary D. Carter is a nonresident fellow with the Global Order and Institutions Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he analyzes geopolitics through an economic lens.
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar is the tenth president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A former justice of the Supreme Court of California, he has served three U.S. presidential administrations at the White House and in federal agencies, and was the Stanley Morrison Professor at Stanford University, where he held appointments in law, political science, and international affairs and led the university’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Oona A. Hathaway is a nonresident scholar in the Global Order and Institutions Program at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace.
Stewart Patrick is senior fellow and director of the Global Order and Institutions Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His primary areas of research focus are the shifting foundations of world order, the future of American internationalism, and the requirements for effective multilateral cooperation on transnational challenges.
Minh-Thu Pham is a nonresident scholar in the Global Order and Institutions Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.