文档介绍：International Institutions and Global Governance Program
World Order in the 21st Century
A New Initiative of the Council on Foreign Relations
May 1, 2008
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has launched prehensive five-year program on international
institutions and global governance. The purpose of this cross-cutting initiative is to explore the institutional
requirements for world order in the twenty-first century. The undertaking recognizes that the architecture of global
governance—largely reflecting the world as it existed in 1945—has not kept pace with fundamental changes in the
international system, including but not limited to globalization. Existing multilateral arrangements thus provide an
inadequate foundation for addressing today’s most pressing threats and opportunities and for advancing . national
and broader global interests. The program seeks to identify critical weaknesses in current frameworks for multilateral
cooperation; propose specific reforms tailored to new global circumstances; and promote constructive . leadership
in building the capacities of anizations and in sponsoring new, more effective regional and global
institutions and partnerships. This program is made possible by a generous grant from the Robina Foundation.
The program draws on the resources of CFR’s David Rockefeller Studies Program to assess existing regional and
global governance mechanisms and offer concrete mendations for . policymakers on specific reforms
needed to improve their performance, both to advance . national interests and to ensure the provision of critical
global public goods. The program will take an issue area approach, focusing on arrangements governing state conduct
and international cooperation in meeting four broad sets of challenges: (1) Countering Transnational Threats,
including terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and infectious disease; (2) Protecting the
Environment and