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JAVIER SOLANA: Let me start by saying that the global governance is an awful term, but it is vital—we need it because of the simple reality with this inter dependence. We live in a world where people, goods, ideas, money, threats, opportunities move at the global level and it increases beat. What happens half way around the world, in Afghanistan, in Gaza, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, affects our security and our prospect.
Globalization has offered millions of people a chance to live better lives, but it has also unleashed forces that governments can neither stop, not control. You know the list; terrorism, non-proliferation, climate change, pandemics failing the states, none can be solved by a single a government acting alone.
So the question is, how do we organize this globalized world and especially how do we tackle the dark sides of globalization? In the whole, our capacity to analyze problems is good, but even when we agree on what has to happen, it brings to my mind the Israeli/Palestinian problem, we still don't know how to manage to translate the consensus into results in the ground, and that can be said of many of the problems that we are facing today, and I think it is worth analyzing why this is so.
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