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Global cooperation is under stress. Finance, climate, security, and technology shocks overlap, while major powers contest rules and public budgets shrink. Yet these shifts potentially widen agency for parts of the Global South. This paper asks how the current moment should be viewed: does it represent a crisis or opportunity, and what does workable cooperation look like in a polycentric world? We use the 2025 Financing for Development conference in Seville as a point of reference for our reflections. Against this backdrop, we argue that a managed, issue-based new multilateralism is emerging, organized around ‘pockets of effectiveness’, or bounded, likeminded coalitions that work on concrete tasks. While universal multilateralism is likely to remain challenging, practical cooperation is feasible on some issues. If ‘the who’ is likeminded coalitions of countries, then ‘the how’ of new multilateralism is found in these ‘pockets’.

Global cooperation is under stress. Finance, climate, security, and technology shocks overlap, while major powers contest rules and public budgets shrink. Yet these shifts potentially widen agency for parts of the Global South. This paper asks how the current moment should be viewed: does it represent a crisis or opportunity, and what does workable cooperation look like in a polycentric world? We use the 2025 Financing for Development conference in Seville as a point of reference for our reflections. Against this backdrop, we argue that a managed, issue-based new multilateralism is emerging, organized around ‘pockets of effectiveness’, or bounded, likeminded coalitions that work on concrete tasks. While universal multilateralism is likely to remain challenging, practical cooperation is feasible on some issues. If ‘the who’ is likeminded coalitions of countries, then ‘the how’ of new multilateralism is found in these ‘pockets’.

Global cooperation is under stress. Finance, climate, security, and technology shocks overlap, while major powers contest rules and public budgets shrink. Yet these shifts potentially widen agency for parts of the Global South. This paper asks how the current moment should be viewed: does it represent a crisis or opportunity, and what does workable cooperation look like in a polycentric world? We use the 2025 Financing for Development conference in Seville as a point of reference for our reflections. Against this backdrop, we argue that a managed, issue-based new multilateralism is emerging, organized around ‘pockets of effectiveness’, or bounded, likeminded coalitions that work on concrete tasks. While universal multilateralism is likely to remain challenging, practical cooperation is feasible on some issues. If ‘the who’ is likeminded coalitions of countries, then ‘the how’ of new multilateralism is found in these ‘pockets’.

Bittere Nachrichten für den FC Liverpool: Die Verletzung von Verteidiger Conor Bradley aus dem Arsenal-Spiel ist so schwer, dass der Nordire operiert werden muss. Es droht das frühe Saisonende.

Sander Kraaij, Assoziierter Doktorand in der Abteilung Kriminalität, Arbeit und Ungleichheit, hat am 9. Januar seine Dissertation an der Universität zu Köln erfolgreich verteidigt. Die Dissertation mit dem Titel „Essays on Job Quality: Discrimination, Performance Pay, and Corporate Social ...

In today's edition: Mercosur, CAP budget, CATCH system

Die Golden Globes wurden verliehen, und es gibt wieder viel zu reden. Blick begleitete euch die ganze Nacht hinweg durch die Preisverleihung. Zeit, einen Blick auf die Highlights der diesjährigen Verleihung zu werfen.

L'Iran a déjà connu des manifestations, la dernière en date remontant à 2022. Mais en quoi les manifestations actuelles diffèrent-elles en termes d'ampleur et d'objectifs, et pourquoi ?

La Bosnie-Herzégovine continue d'exempter de visa les ressortissants de Russie, de Chine, du Koweit, du Qatar ou encore de Turquie. Une situation que dénonce la Commission européenne, qui craint que le pays ne soit un hub d'entrée vers l'Union.

- Articles / Radio Slobodna Evropa, Une - Diaporama, Questions européennes, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Migrants Balkans, Une - Diaporama - En premier

La Bosnie-Herzégovine continue d'exempter de visa les ressortissants de Russie, de Chine, du Koweit, du Qatar ou encore de Turquie. Une situation que dénonce la Commission européenne, qui craint que le pays ne soit un hub d'entrée vers l'Union.

- Articles / Radio Slobodna Evropa, Une - Diaporama, Questions européennes, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Migrants Balkans, Une - Diaporama - En premier

In Monday’s edition: Kubilius’ army, Gaza peace board, migration, Mercosur, Fico vs. Kallas

The EU has agreed to talks with Washington on sharing sensitive citizens’ data without publicly setting limits

Several groups chipping in with ideas ahead of the Digital Decade review also urge a stronger push for European sovereignty

Subsidies, not grid reforms, are kicking off 2026 across Europe

This line of argument could resonate with other conservative groups in the European Parliament opposed to abortion

The strategy doubles down on a tougher migration line pursued since the start of the EU executive's mandate

MEPs will agree on a take-it-or-leave-it offer on maintaining the automatic right to compensation for delays over three hours

US high-tech ceasefire monitoring will not by itself change the game in Ukraine; furthermore, it puts Europeans and Ukrainians at risk of Washington’s volatile decision-making, experts say

History will not judge this moment by what Iran’s regime did, but by what the free world chose not to do

As Donald Trump renews pressure to take over Greenland, growing resentment towards Copenhagen on the island could become Washington’s strongest leverage