“Now the war in Ukraine has elevated the emergency to a much higher level. No longer is it possible to hope that simmering clashes between competing value systems in China, Russia, the European Union, the United States and elsewhere can be reconciled through existing multilateral institutions.”
James M. Boughton on governance reform following Russia’s attack on Ukraine
Shifting geopolitics around the war in Ukraine and an evolving data-driven economy have raised questions about the survival of international institutions. With the Rockefeller Foundation’s Future of Institutions Dialogue, CIGI’s Rohinton P. Medhora, Susan Ariel Aaronson, Robert Fay and Dan Ciuriak proposed ways to fill the gaps caused by out-of-date and not-yet-created governance institutions and mechanisms. James M. Boughton also offered lessons from the history of Bretton Woods.
Aaron Shull and Adam Chapnick led an essay series with perspectives on situating Canada in this evolving geopolitical landscape with new approaches to trade, multilateralism, geoeconomic alliances and digital leadership. The series commemorated Canadian diplomat John Wendell Holmes, who also inspired an open-source book series focusing on Canadian foreign policy with the University of Calgary Press.