Global Cooperation is an essential part of our lives. We need the support and efforts from countries in different places to deal with a wide range of problems such as environment, poverty, war, diseases, and extinct animals etc.
In this century, we can see that the world is becoming closer and more complex with the help of technology, information and innovations. This has also made a major impact on the cooperation among nations. The most important issues for global cooperation are the following:
Climate change, declining biodiversity, pandemics, superbugs, food and energy security, ocean degradation, cyber-crime, terrorism, large-scale migration, and tax avoidance. These are the common problems which are facing almost all nations.
These challenges are making us more aware of the importance of global cooperation and we can see a lot of joint meetings of governments from different parts of the world to solve these problems.
The globalization of production and trade has led to the increase of international cooperation between countries which are in different regions. This has helped to improve the quality of life for people in the different parts of the world.
However, this success has come with a downside. This is that the success of international cooperation has resulted in a growing gap between rich and poor people. This has weakened public support for international cooperation and it is harder to maintain it now that the world is more interdependent than ever before.
We need a new model of development that is based on collaboration and partnerships between all countries. This can be achieved by creating a new paradigm of cooperation that can address the shared development challenges and the Sustainable Development Goals.