On the contrary, I think whatever institutions we have (which are highly dysfunctional, including the WHO) are getting weaker and more captured. While most of the challenges “are best handled by international cooperation,” Goldstone argued,unfortunately, global governance has been a great disappointment. Perhaps most important, Global Trends notes an intensification of international resource competition:Climate change and environmental degradation will contribute to and reflect a more contested geopolitical environment. Countries and other actors are likely to compete over food, minerals, water, and energy sources made more accessible, more valuable, or scarcer. There are explicitly anti-democratic forces working to encourage the developments Vanhuysse describes, according to the most recent Annual Threat Assessment.

Source: International New York Times June 16, 2021 09:00 UTC