Global economic crises have shown in recent decades that market forces cannot regulate themselves, without strong institutions that look after the interests of those who have less influence on decisions, and that the effects of imbalances on national economies can expand like gunpowder pits from one end of the planet to the other.
The wars do not only affect the belligerent countries, but they also stain and damage the set of international relations. Global warming, it is evident, affects all the inhabitants of the world, no matter which countries are those that contribute more decidedly to environmental pollution.
The trafficking of arms, drugs and people voraciously feeds on borders porosity to operate without limits around the globe. If a conclusion emerges from this increasingly complex global framework, it is that none of these challenges can be addressed only within a country’s borders or treated only in an exclusive and small group of world leaders.
In fact, for some time now we have witnessed a global reorganization in which leaders, whether in the political, economic or military field, break with historical schemes. The advance of Asian countries and emerging economies to the detriment of Western powers requires abandoning isolationist attitudes to expand the group of those who define social, economic and environmental policies that involve and affect the entire planet.
Henry Kissinger says in his latest book, not coincidentally called World Order, that the world faces a paradox: its prosperity depends on globalization and, nevertheless, chaos threatens that phenomenon. In an uncertain world, there is no doubt that decisions are increasingly complex.
For this reason, he affirms, a world order of states that “affirm individual dignity and participatory government, and cooperate internationally in accordance with agreed rules, can be our hope and should be our inspiration”.
