Thomas Galvez/FlickrThe new regionalism presents the prospect for new benefits for global order as well as new risks. How those challenges and risks are addressed, by the United States and by other member states, will determine whether a fragmented global order or more effective global and regional governance emerge over the next decade.
Armed Conflict
Preventing armed conflict, keeping peace, and rebuilding war-torn states remain among the most challenging problems for the international community.
Crime
The global impact of transnational crime has risen to unprecedented levels. The result has been an unparalleled scale of international crime.
Proliferation
Nuclear weapons proliferation, whether by state or nonstate actors, poses one of the greatest threats to international security today.
Finance
For twenty-five years, globalization produced unprecedented levels of both economic growth and economic risk.
Oceans Governance
Oceans are the source of life on earth. They shape the climate, feed the world, and cleanse the air we breathe.
Climate Change
Climate change is one of the most significant threats facing the world today.
Public Health
Explore the global health regime with a new interactive from CFR's program on International Institutions and Global Governance.
Terrorism
The global fight against terrorism, history of terrorist attacks, and gaps in the international counterterrorism effort.
Human Rights
The idea of human rights has a long history, but only in the past century has the international community sought to galvanize a regime to promote and guard them.
See All of the Global Governance Monitors: Oceans | Climate Change | Finance | Terrorism | Armed Conflict | Public Health | Nuclear Proliferation
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