A Global Civics Lesson
Global governance is not a technocratic puzzle to be solved by clever institutional design. Given competing visions – particularly between the US and Europe – such governance cannot be established without an explicit understanding of our responsibilities towards those who are not our compatriots, and of the rights that emerge alongside those responsibilities.
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ISTANBUL – The reality of the world’s epic interdependence is well known. We have seen how financial engineering in the United States can determine economic growth in every part of the world; how carbon-dioxide emissions from China end up influencing crop yields and livelihoods in Vietnam, Bangladesh, the Maldives, and beyond; how an epidemic in Mexico endangers the rhythm of public life in the US; or how volcanic ash from Iceland affects travel across Europe.