Has the pandemic sidelined multilateral organizations? We’ve seen unilateral border closures and beggar-thy-neighbor fights over medical equipment — and perhaps less news about the coordination and cooperation these organizations were created to foster.
The covid-19 pandemic has presented enormous political challenges to global cooperation, and organizations. In April, President Trump announced he would suspend funding to the World Health Organization over allegations of mismanagement.
Christian Kreuder-Sonnen is a research fellow in the Global Governance department at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and the scientific coordinator of the DFG Research Group titled “Overlapping Spheres of Authority ...