Wednesday, 15.04.2026

A New Era of International Cooperation: Reimagining Relations between Global South and North

Can middle powers shape a fairer, more stable global order? This roundtable explores their role, strategies, and growing influence in reforming international cooperation and governance.

 

April 15, 2:00 – 3:30 PM; by invitation only | Washington D.C.

 

As the international financial architecture faces pressures from climate transition, debt distress, and geopolitical fragmentation, this high-level roundtable co-organized by FES New York, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, United Nations University-Centre for Policy Research, and Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee asks whether middle powers can anchor a more stable and equitable global order. The discussion will examine the feasibility of a middle power-centered order, the coalitional strategies through which middle powers can exercise collective agency, and the institutional models through which they are already innovating in development cooperation and multilateral reform.