Running to the Rescue of Multilateral Cooperation

The possibility of a ‘TheMagri, Paolo West and the Rest’ scenario appears much closer to reality today with some announcing the end of globalization and the beginning of a new era of fragmentation, conflict, and lack of cooperation. But is this really the case? It is true that geopolitical tensions will not fade while the appetite for natural resources keeps growing, but if international behavior is rational, interdependence will continue to be the ‘glue’ that binds today’s complicated global jigsaw together. It is essential to run to the rescue of multilateralism as no interdependence is possible without it.