Opening Session | Order from Chaos: South-led Multilateralism
In the last three years, Indonesia, India, and Brazil’s G20 presidencies have proved that the future of multilateralism has pivoted to the developing world. Parallely, the BRICS has emerged as a progressive grouping, adapting to changing times and shifting geopolitical realities with its expansion. ‘Global South’ has been reappropriated to indicate new centres of growth. Keeping the focus on international development, even as geopolitics continued to play itself out, has been a significant achievement of these two groups with global south countries at the helm. For some decades now it has been clear that multilateral institutions have not been responding to the needs of the global south. The WTO, IMF, and World Bank have all become conveniently defunct as their rules started to deliver on the promise of liberal development.
Driving Questions:
Can the global commons — from the financial system to post-war multilateral institutions to the principles of international law — serve a neutral and unbiased role in a time of geopolitical rivalry?
Has the idea of liberal development always been a house of cards?
Can the G20, BRICS, and other regional organisations deliver better results with a wide consensus?
Is there merit in complementing old frameworks with new 21st-century institutions?
Speakers:
Anand Sharma, Former Minister of Commerce and Industry, India
María Elena Agüero, Secretary General, Club de Madrid, Spain
Moussa Mara, Former Prime Minister of Mali
Carolina Chimoy, Journalist, Deutsche Welle, Germany
Thoko Didiza, Speaker of the National Assembly, South Africa
Moderator: Samir Saran, President, Observer Research Foundation, India
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