The Managing Global Order program (MGO) is a joint project between CIC, the Brookings Institution and the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University. Its activities and publications aim to provide policy recommendations towards adapting and revitalizing multilateral security systems to new and dynamic political realities. MGO has published many pieces on global order and international power politics, among them Power and Responsibility, recently presented with the Gold Award for best book in the political science field by ForeWord Reviews.
MGO’s work focuses on how international cooperation and institutions should be enhanced in order to amplify cooperation, regulate competition, and manage conflict with respect to key transnational threats. The backdrop to MGO’s work is the changing global order. In particular, the program focuses on the emergence of new powers and the evolution of threats to a stable and prosperous global system. MGO tries to answer two key questions:
- What is the nature of the changing global order with respect to the existing international economic and security system?
- What are the implications of this changing global order – new powers, new challenges - for US strategy and international architecture?
Looking ahead, MGO will develop recommendations on policymaker response to:
- The rise of new global actors, and the implications for regional and international stability
- The growing salience of transnational threats, including transnational terrorism and biological insecurity
- Rising energy and scarce resource competition between major and rising powers
- The regional and global implications of fragile states
- The growing mismatch between demands on multilateral institutions and their capacity to respond to international crises – including new mechanisms such as the G20
MGO will also continue to engage and work directly with multilateral institutions including: the UN on conflict management, civilian peacekeeping and mediation processes; the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability Climate change and resource scarcity; the World Bank’s World Development Report on fragile states; the World Health Organization on biosecurity; and the IAEA’s Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force.
MGO published Power and Responsibility which laid out a strategy for reducing the risk of instability arising from the changing global order. At its heart was a strategy for building the emerging powers into mechanisms for global cooperation in areas of shared interest. We also laid out a timetable and agenda for reform of key international institutions, such as the G8/G20 and the UN, which are needed to manage transnational risks.
MGO has stimulated policy debates regarding US leadership and international cooperation in response to transnational threats. Our main arguments and messages resonate with the advent of the G20, new major power efforts to tackle nuclear security, and with renewed attention to the performance of key international tools and alliances, including NATO.
Bruce D. Jones is MGO Director & Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy at Brookings and Director and Senior Fellow, Center for International Cooperation, NYU. His research focuses on U.S. policy on global order and transnational threats; international conflict management; and fragile states.
Steve J. Stedmanis the Stanford MGO Director & Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy at Brookings and Professor & Senior Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University. A leading expert on civil wars and conflict management, he was formerly the research director of the UN High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change from 2003-2004, and Assistant Secretary General and Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations in 2005.
Javier Solana is a Distinguished Senior Fellow with the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. Former NATO Secretary-General and European Union High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Solana provides counsel to the Brookings Foreign Policy research program and expertise on transnational governance issues.
WPS Sidhu is a Senior Fellow at CIC, working primarily on the Managing Global Order and Peacebuilding as Statebuilding programs. Prior to coming to CIC, he served as Vice President of Programs at the EastWest Institute in New York, and as Director of the New Issues in Security program at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP).
Ted Piccone is Deputy Director & Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy at Brookings. He specializes in U.S.-Latin American relations; global democracy and human rights; and multilateral affairs. He serves as an advisor to the Club of Madrid and has served on the National Security Council, at the State Department, and at the Pentagon.
MGO Fellows: Strobe Talbott, Senior Fellow; Martin Indyk, Senior Fellow; Kemal Dervis, Senior Fellow; Ann Florini, Senior Fellow; Ashraf Ghani, Non-Resident Fellow; and Michael Fullilove, Non-Resident Fellow.
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Jan Eliasson, Ashraf Ghani, Jeremy Greenstock, Rima Khalaf Hunaidi, Anwar Ibrahim, Wolfgang Ischinger, Igor S. Ivanov, Wu Jianmin, Kishore Mahbubani, Vincent Maphai, Paul Martin, Lalit Mansingh, Ayo Obe, Sadako Ogata, Salim Ahmed Salim, Javier Solana
Madeleine Albright, Richard Armitage, Samuel Berger, Howard Berman, Coit D. Blacker, Chester A. Crocker, Lawrence Eagleburger, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, William Perry, Thomas Pickering, John Podesta, Brent Scowcroft, Abraham D. Sofaer, Strobe Talbott, Timothy Wirth, James D. Wolfe
Power and Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threats
ForeWord Reviews has awarded Power and Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threats by Bruce Jones, Carlos Pascual, and Stephen J. Stedman its 2009 Gold Award for best book in the political science field.
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