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ازمة التعاون

Sep 25, 2013 Zaki Laïdi

باريس- ان صعود الاقتصادات الناشئة عالميا قد ادى للكثير من التفاؤل ليس فقط في مجال التنمية الاقتصادية ولكن ايضا في مجال التعاون الدولي ولكن التحول لنظام عالمي متعدد الاقطاب لم يؤدي الى تدعيم التعددية وفي الواقع العكس هو الصحيح فمنطق السيادة الوطنية قد عاد حيث تقوم الاقتصادات الكبرى باستمرار بتقويض التعاون فيما يتعلق بقضايا تمتد من الامن للتجارة للتغير المناخي .

انظروا للفوضى في مجلس الامن الدولي فيما يتعلق بالحرب الاهلية في سوريا علما انه قبل عامين فقط قام المجلس بالموافقة على قرار بتفويض تدخل عسكري في ليبيا وهو اول قرار يطبق مبدأ مسؤولية الحماية والذي تبنته الجمعية العامة بالاجماع سنة 2005.

لكن القوى الصاعدة سرعان ما بدأت تعتقد ان الغرب قد استخدم حماية المدنيين الليبيين كحجة من اجل تغيير النظام ( بالرغم من الناحية الواقعية كان من المستحيل حماية الشعب بدون اسقاط حكومة معمر القذافي) والان فإن هذه البلدان بشكل عام ترفض مبدأ مسؤولية الحماية حيث تنظر اليه على انه اداة توظفها الحكومات الغربية من اجل شرعنة محاولات خرق السيادة الوطنية.

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Wayne Davidson Sep 28, 2013

The primacy of national sovereignty over multilateralism is found in humanities primal notions of ownership and the jingoism inherent in nationhood.
Global cooperation infers social justice on a planetary scale, when in reality, hegemonic governments and base human needs coalesce in the planetary garden of Gethsemane.
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Stamatis Kavvadias Sep 26, 2013

There is nothing wrong with the backlash to multilateralism. Global policy organizations are formed in a way biased to the interests of the economically dominant countries, and doctrines proven wrong in the recent crisis.

This is evident in the case of Syria. How can the UN place first, so called, timely action in the form of military intervention, before political pressure and economic isolation. How can the UN allow the consideration of military action with its externally imposed costs in lives and infrastructure, without considering at least financial compensation for infrastructure damage and a substituting regime for the day after? And how could the UN decide on the day after, in places where it cannot understand the current situation?

The case of the US abandoning its commitment to WTO's trade negotiations, is a clear situation of the field of conflicts that will arise during this century, as economic advantage will shift to the east. While now 20% of the global population (the west) occupies 80% of global wealth, by 2050 the west it will have to settle for 35% of global wealth, according to the World Bank. This will and should cause a slowdown in globalization and the "multilateralism" approach used in this article.

Regarding real global problems, like climate change and economic viability of a response to it, we will need not only more sincere approach to global policy institutions (which need to gain global acceptance by populations, not countries), but also be prepared to the possible need to change the model of the economy (e.g. perpetual growth doctrine) to get to real results. These are the really big difficulties, and the approach taken by the author, which attempts to support the flawed aspects of current institutions, is also on the side of the obstacles!
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Thomas Hale Sep 26, 2013

Good point. In our book "Gridlock," we note that increasing multipolarity is one of several 'second order' cooperation problems now impeding multilateralism. http://www.amazon.com/Gridlock-Global-Cooperation-Failing-when/dp/0745662390/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369147839&sr=8-1&keywords=gridlock+hale
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Zsolt Hermann Sep 25, 2013

I fully agree with the writer, but there is nobody specific to blame.
We are born with an inherent nature that is fully self-centered and egoistic.
Each and every one of us are born like this, the only difference comes from the different intensity of this inherent desire, which intensity renders humanity according to a pyramid structure.
Our purpose in life so far has been "how much fulfillment I can get", "how much profit I can accumulate", our human evolution has been driven by the growing, evolving selfish, egoistic human nature, ruthlessly competing with each other, succeeding at the expense of others.
Up to this point it seemed this was enough to develop humanity, explore, invent and conquer, but now when we evolved into a globally interconnected and interdependent system, this basic human attitude, behavior has become self-destructive like cancer in a living body.
The daily events of the ongoing crisis and more and more scientific studies confirm it, in this new integral world only cooperating in a mutually responsible and complementing fashion can we survive.
Our purpose in life has to change from direct self-fulfillment to the primary fulfillment and sustenance of the whole.
Not for moral, ethical reasons, but simply because in a global, integral system the survival, prosperity of the individual is directly dependent on the survival and prosperity of the whole, like the fate of sailors sailing, surviving on the same boat, as long as the boat is afloat and sailing in the right direction it is beneficial for all of them.
It is a huge, fundamental change, requiring people to actually rise above their own inherent nature, thus the change requires a massive, new purpose built education system, the change of the values in society.
As the article writes in the end:
"...In the emerging multipolar world, characterized by sovereignty concerns and strategic competition, progress toward resolving global issues will be more difficult than ever – with potentially devastating consequences..."
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