Latest media and commentary from members of the Lloyd George Study Group on Global Governance
28 September 2023 – The UN and the multilateral system are in crisis – what the Global South must do – article in The Conversation by Monica Herz
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11 September 2023 – The Nimble New Minilaterals – column in Foreign Policy by C Raja Mohan
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29 August 2023 – BRICS Expansion Is No Triumph for China – column in Foreign Policy by C Raja Mohan
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23 August 2023 – Don’t fall for China’s rhetoric – BRICS isn’t NAM – column in The Indian Express by C Raja Mohan
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25 June 2023 – Putin Is in ‘Pretty Good Shape’ After Mutiny: Council on Foreign Relations – Bloomberg Daybreak Asia Interview with Charles A. Kupchan
16 June 2023 – The debate over Ukraine’s potential admission to NATO, PBS News Hour Interview with Charles A. Kupchan. Watch the video in the player below:
3 June 2023 – A New Cold War Could Be Much Worse Than the One We Remember by Charles A. Kupchan, The Atlantic:
A new cold war has come to seem all but inevitable. Tensions between China and the United States are mounting in step with Beijing’s growing power and ambition. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has poisoned its relations with the West and pushed Moscow and Beijing closer together, pitting a democratic bloc anchored by the United States against an autocratic one anchored by China and Russia. Much as it did in the 20th century, Washington is teaming up with allies in Europe and Asia to contain the ambitions of its rivals.
3 May 2023 – Make the Center Vital Again How to Turn Back the Populist Tide and Build Support for the Liberal Order by Peter Trubowitz and Brian Burgoon, Foreign Affairs:
In the years immediately following World War II, voters on the left and right in Western countries both backed liberal internationalism. They found common cause in their support for policies that sought to expand international trade and cooperation and prevent the spread of communism. For decades, this “vital center,” as Harvard historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., termed it, held. But times have changed. Since the early 1990s, an antiglobalist backlash has seen the support of Western voters for parties favoring trade liberalization and multilateral cooperation fall by nearly 50 percent. The British vote to leave the European Union and the election of U.S. President Donald Trump, both in 2016, famously symbolized this transformation.
13 April 2023 – The West Needs a New Strategy in Ukraine A Plan for Getting From the Battlefield to the Negotiating Table by Richard Haass and Charles A. Kupchan, Foreign Affairs:
After just over a year, the war in Ukraine has turned out far better for Ukraine than most predicted. Russia’s effort to subjugate its neighbor has failed. Ukraine remains an independent, sovereign, functioning democracy, holding on to roughly 85 percent of the territory it controlled before Russia’s 2014 invasion. At the same time, it is difficult to feel sanguine about where the war is headed. The human and economic costs, already enormous, are poised to climb as both Moscow and Kyiv ready their next moves on the battlefield. The Russian military’s numerical superiority likely gives it the ability to counter Ukraine’s greater operational skill and morale, as well as its access to Western support. Accordingly, the most likely outcome of the conflict is not a complete Ukrainian victory but a bloody stalemate.
4 January 2021 – A China Strategy to Reunite America’s Allies by Charles A. Kupchan and Peter Trubowitz, Project Syndicate:
America’s relationships with its core democratic partners are set to rebound dramatically after President-elect Joe Biden takes office. Allies in Europe and Asia relish the prospect of an American president committed to adhere to democratic traditions at home, honor strategic commitments abroad, and be a team player.
Solidarity among the world’s democracies is especially important when it comes to standing up to China. But the European Union’s decision last week to sign an investment accord with that country underscores the potential for serious discord. Even though the Biden camp cautioned the EU against moving ahead with the agreement, it nonetheless sealed the deal (pending ratification).
