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Stewart Patrick
Senior Fellow and Director, Global Order and Institutions Program

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Stewart Patrick is a senior fellow and director of the Global Order and Institutions Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His primary areas of research focus are the shifting foundations of world order, the future of American internationalism, and the requirements for effective multilateral cooperation on transnational challenges. He is particularly interested in the international governance dilemmas posed by shifting power dynamics, emerging technologies, anti-globalization sentiments, the planetary ecological crisis, and growing competition in the global commons, including the oceans and outer space.

An expert in the history and practice of multilateralism, Patrick is the author of three books, including The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World; Weak Links: Fragile States, Global Threats, and International Security; and The Best Laid Plans: The Origins of American Multilateralism and the Dawn of the Cold War. He has written hundreds of articles, essays, chapters, and reports on problems of world order, U.S. global engagement, the United Nations and other international organizations, and the management of global issues. 

A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Patrick has served on the policy planning staff at the U.S. Department of State. He helped establish the Council of Councils, a global think tank network, and served on the steering committee of the Paris Peace Forum. He appears regularly as an expert commentator in major media, including television, radio, print, an online. His full CV can be found here.


education
PhD, International Relations, Oxford University, MPhil, International Relations, Oxford University, MSt, European History, Oxford University, BA, Human Biology, Stanford University
languages
English, French

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French engineer-virologist Thomas Mollet divides a 40ml flask, infected with a Sars-CoV-2 virus, under a laminar flow at the Biosafety level 3 laboratory (BSL3) of the Valneva SE Group headquarters in Saint-Herblain, near Nantes, western France, on July 30, 2020.
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Mitigating Risks from Gene Editing and Synthetic Biology: Global Governance Priorities

Rapid advances in bioscience and bioengineering hold immense promise for human betterment. But as these disruptive technologies become more widely distributed, their inherently dual-use nature and susceptibility to unintended consequences could create unprecedented dangers.

· October 16, 2024
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BRICS Expansion, the G20, and the Future of World Order

With the addition of new members in BRICS+, the group of emerging powers will be more globally representative­—but also face more internal divisions.

· October 9, 2024
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Trade Intervention for Freer Trade: A Conversation with Michael Pettis
October 3, 2024

A new paper, Trade Intervention for Freer Trade, Michael Pettis, a nonresident senior fellow in at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Erica Hogan, a research assistant in the Carnegie Global Order and Institutions program, assess policies that could create a new global trading system that preserves the freedom of nations to direct their economies while harnessing the benefits of trade. Please join Stewart Patrick, director of the Global Order and Institutions Program, for a conversation with Michael Pettis on these and other issues.

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The Good—and Bad—News About the UN’s Summit of the Future

The vast majority of UN member states still support multilateral cooperation, but disagreement over the scope of reform has been a major flashpoint.

· September 19, 2024
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The UN Summit of the Future: What to Expect
September 16, 2024

Join Stewart Patrick, senior fellow and director of Carnegie’s Global Order and Institutions program, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Richard Gowan, and Minh-Thu Pham for a deep dive into the rationale behind the Summit and what is—and is not—likely to be included in the Pact that emerges from it.

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Reimagining Global Economic Governance: African and Global Perspectives

Demand is growing for more representative and equitable global institutions that are capable of managing the risks and opportunities of interdependence—such as accelerating climate change and rapid technological innovation.

· September 16, 2024
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Can the UN Security Council Still Help Keep the Peace? Reassessing Its Role, Relevance, and Potential for Reform

The UN Security Council’s paralysis amid the war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas conflict has deepened skepticism about the body’s capacity to advance collective security and promote the rule of law.

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Do We Need Planetary Institutions to Solve Problems? Insights from Children of a Modest Star
June 6, 2024

In a groundbreaking new book rooted in history and earth science, scholars Jonathan Blake and Nils Gilman advocate a paradigm shift toward “multiscalar” global governance that would transfers significant political authority from national governments to planetary institutions, as well as to localities. 

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Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Leaders
May 29, 2024

Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Leaders is a special half-day conference hosted by the 2023-2024 James C. Gaither Junior Fellows. Over the course of three sessions, panelists will discuss issues impacting youth including the evolving global order and role of institutions, climate change, AI, radicalization, and shifts in the information landscape.   

  • Abby Finkenauer 
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Brazilian President Lula da Silva, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov raise their clasped hands at the 2023 BRICS summit.
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A Closer Look at the Global South

The revival of the concept signals enduring frustration with inequalities embedded in the global order.

· May 20, 2024