Multilateralism in 2021 : better than 2020?

• Main Author: Ng, Joel
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science; Country and Region Studies; Regionalism and Multilateralism
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/147121
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Unilateralism, COVID-19, and urgent domestic government commitments weakened multilateralism in 2020. However, countervailing trends of cooperation, prospective reopening, and shifting domestic dynamics may provide the opportunity to get multilateralism back on track in 2021, but it will require fir...