Past event
Panelists speak at the MGI meeting in Beijing
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Beijing, China
The Managing Global Insecurity (MGI) project visited Beijing, China March 19-21 to elicit Chinese priorities and perspectives on international cooperation and revitalization of the multilateral security system. The visit, one of a series of consultations MGI is conducting in key international capitals, included meetings with government officials, Party leaders, policymakers, scholars, students and private sector representatives. MGI highlighted the vital role China, as new great power, would play in the future of the international security system and introduced some of MGI’s initial recommendations
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Global Governance, International Organizations, International Relations, Foreign Policy
MGI Meeting
Igor Ivanov looks on as World Bank vice president Jeff Gutman speaks at the Ditchley Park meeting
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Oxfordshire, UK
This session, through generous support of the Finnish government in partnership with the Ditchley Foundation, brought MGI Advisory Group members together with experts and policy-makers from across Europe and from the United States to discuss priorities, challenges, and opportunities for a strengthened multilateral security system.
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Global Governance, G-8, Transnational Security Threats, Terrorism, Proliferation
MGI MEETING
Managing Global Insecurity Project Members in Singapore
Monday, December 10, 2007
Singapore
This meeting, which included International Advisory Group members as well as Asia regional experts, focused on an effective multilateral response on the topics of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, energy security and global climate change. Participants also discussed Asian regional security institutions. While in Asia, MGI project directors also held consultations in Tokyo and Delhi with government officials and representatives from non-governmental organizations, think tanks, and the private sector.
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Global Governance
Responsible Sovereignty
Reuters/Michael Reynolds - Britain's Foreign Secretary Miliband gestures while introducing his staff to Chinese Premier Wen in Beijing
Following consultations with the Managing Global Insecurity Co-directors in London, UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband delivered a speech during a visit to China February 20 in which he referenced what MGI is putting forward as the core principle that must underpin a revitalized multilateral security system: “responsible sovereignty,” the idea that sovereignty entails obligations and duties towards other sovereign states as well as to one’s own citizens.
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recent Testimony
Reuters/Eduardo Munoz - US soldiers build a provisional bridge outside of a military base in Taji
Carlos Pascual, January 29, 2008
In testimony before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations Carlos Pascual addressed the need to increase U.S. stabilization and reconstruction capacity in weak or failed states. He notes that "stabilization and reconstruction initiatives require multilateral cooperation ... and the capacity to sustain them over at least a 5-10 year period."
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Transnational Security Threats, Terrorism, NATO, United Nations, National Security