The U.S., the Emerging Powers and Transnational Threats

The Center on International Cooperation at NYU along with New York University's Abu Dhabi Institute and The Brookings Institution Foreign Policy Program hosted a conference entitled: 'The U.S., the Emerging Powers and Transnational Threats' on 24-26 February. The conference took place at the Le Royal Méridien Hotel in Abu Dhabi.

Building on last year's inaugural special colloquium, this year's conference on 'The U.S., the Emerging Powers and Transnational Threats' brought together a diverse group of high-level policymakers, academics and other top foreign policy experts from the United States, the emerging economies and Europe. They discussed how the U.S. and the emerging powers in particular can develop arrangements to handle immediate security threats to key international institutions—including terrorism, energy security and non-proliferation—while also addressing the prospects for longer-term reform. Conference participants considered the factors that have shaped the state of international cooperation among the major powers, and debated what political bargains are needed among those powers to underpin an effective multilateral system. In particular, they outlined what specific options exist for the G20, the UN Security Council and other key multilateral forums in order to make them more effective.