Stewart Patrick argues that the United States can protect its sovereignty while advancing American interests in a global age. He clarifies what is at stake in the sovereignty debate, arguing that the nation must make "sovereignty bargains" to achieve its aims in a complex world.
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Over 120 countries contribute to troops, police, and personnel to UN peacekeeping
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A growing number of actors have joined the fight against dirty money. The success of global efforts to combat illicit financial flows, however, remains uncertain.
A global policy framework and consolidated institutional architecture can help states facilitate regular migration, cope with illegal crossings, and humanely respond to forced migration.
Without increased cooperation, the global digital economy is vulnerable to catastrophic cyberattack.
The Trump administration’s approach to ten critical global summits in the year ahead will show whether its pullback from multilateralism in 2017 was an aberration or the start of a new normal.
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A Global Pact for the Environment would lend coherence to international environmental law, give greater legal and political heft to existing environmental covenants, and safeguard the imperiled biosphere.
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The history of the Genocide Convention stretches back more than seventy years, yet much work remains to be done to prevent and respond to atrocities.
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The liberal international order has had its fair share of shortcomings, but the peace and prosperity it has engendered are not fictitious.
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Aspirations to return American astronauts to the moon after a nearly half-century absence should be rooted in science, not foreign policy.
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Geoengineering is moving from the radical fringe to the center of global public policy, yet a multilateral governance framework for large-scale environmental manipulation remains lacking.
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As NATO turns seventy, history's most successful multilateral alliance faces significant internal challenges.
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The Trump administration's conviction that the World Trade Organization violates American sovereignty endangers the organization and the international trading system.
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Diplomacy and International Institutions
The Trump administration is repeating the mistakes of America’s interwar isolationists, who believed that the nation could and should insulate itself from global troubles. To understand this attitude, we need to look to the past. -
This International Women's Day, we highlight six women whose contributions have helped to shape the contemporary world order.