The world must revise its approach to global governance – Talbott
Process management at the global level is more and more demanded in the modern conditions. However, conventional associations and institutions do not answer the present-day needs any longer. This idea was voiced out in the debates “World Architecture – Continuous? – Reshaping” at the 8th Yalta Annual Meeting of YES by Strobe Talbott, President of the Brookings Institution (USA).
“UN, as early as the next months, would face the problem of its low performance. I would add NATO to this list. We need to seek the way out together, we are to think how to improve the existing formal institutions and think about new ones.”
According to Talbott, as concern global management today, the most effective way is to act not through the existing institutions, but through short-term alliances. “They are alliances that may be formed on ad hoc basis where a need be – alliances of two, three, four countries.” As an example of low effectiveness the global institutions has demonstrated he cited the global climate change problem, as the international community has failed to take effective formal decisions to address the problem so far.
Extension of the nongovernmental alliances network supporting the dialogue at the civil society level is important, according to the President of the Brookings Institution. “There is global civil society – this is where countries and people interact, cross and interweave. This society is an interested party in the implementation of the governmental decisions,” Strobe Talbott stressed. Moreover, he says one should remember global governance is based on national management. If countries are governed in the effective fashion, they can build a dialogue and seek points where we have interests in common.
The 8th Yalta Annual Meeting entitled “Ukraine and the World: Common Challenges, Common Future”, organized by the Yalta European Strategy (YES) in partnership with the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, will take place in Livadia Palace, Ukraine from 15th to 18th of September 2011.
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