The organized multilateralism born out of the Second World War and the Cold War, and revived in the 1990s with the dream of a world of peaceful “global governance,” has fizzled out. The erosion of the large universal frameworks (United Nations, World Trade Organization, arms control and disarmament, international criminal justice, and so on) did not give way to a void but to an excess: a multitude of agreements and schemes that bore witness to the accelerated rebuilding of international relationships. Will institutional anarchy and the open competition of interests visible in uninhibited struggles for power be able to organize themselves around common fundamental interests in the future?
About the Author
Frédéric Ramel est professeur des universités en science politique à Sciences Po Paris. Chercheur au Centre de recherches internationales (CERI), il a copiloté le programme ANR DATAWAR (2019-2023) et il coordonne le Groupe de recherche sur l’action multilatérale (GRAM) du CNRS. Il vient de publier Espace mondial (Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2024).