On May 8th, 2018, the 7th annual meeting of Council of Councils (CoC) which 26 world leading thinktanks' leaders gathered was held in New York City and presented Report Card on International Cooperation in 2017-2018 which graded on advancing international cooperation. The Genron NPO President Yasushi Kudo joined this event as the representative of Japan.
CoC is the global network initiated by a Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) in U.S. and comprising 26 major international policy institutions in order to tackle current global issues by connecting those member thinktanks across the world, which hold influential power over foreign policy and a process of forming public opinion in each country.
This annual assessment is counted for the 4th time this year after each leader of member thinktanks answered the survey individually in January to evaluate on 10 global issues that the world is facing, their answers were collected for an overall grade.
The overall grade of International Cooperation in 2017 is "C-" for the second year in a row
The Report Card on International Cooperation 2017-2018 gives a dismal C- to international efforts to mitigate the world's most pressing problems in 2017, the same grade given for 2016. According to CFR President Richard N. Haass, performance on international cooperation in 2017 received a lackluster C- in part because "the United States changed from the principal preserver of order to a principal disrupter, as it called into question the global economic architecture and longstanding alliances, agreements, and institutions."
The grade for preventing nuclear proliferation dropped from a B- in 2016 to a D+ in 2017. At the same time, respondents ranked nonproliferation the top priority for
policymakers in 2018. South Korean thinktank's president commented, "International institutions and national governments failed to assuage the serious security concerns about the North Korean development of nuclear weapons--weapons that can now reach the continental United States--and the increasing risk of nuclear armament by South Korea and Japan."
Global Trade expands without the U.S.
Meanwhile, the grade for international cooperation to expand global trade saw the improvement across all ten issue areas. Thinktank leaders awarded it a C in 2017, up from a D+ in 2016. "Despite Trump's anti-trade and anti-globalization rhetoric, in 2017 global growth accelerated to 3.7 percent, the fastest pace in seven years, and global trade increased by 3.6 percent," the report card notes.
⇒ Evaluation by CoC ⇒ Evaluation by The Genron NPO
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About the CoC Report Card on International Cooperation 2017-2018
The Council of Councils (CoC) Report Card on International Cooperation evaluates multilateral efforts to address ten of the world's most pressing global challenges, from combating transnational terrorism to advancing global health. No country can confront these issues better on its own. Combating the threats, managing the risks, and exploiting the opportunities presented by globalization require international cooperation.
To help policymakers around the world prioritize among these challenges, the CoC Report Card on International Cooperation surveyed the Council of Councils, a network of twenty-six foreign policy institutes around the world.
Respondents were asked to assess the state of international cooperation on five dimensions:
・How did the world do overall on international cooperation in 2017?
・How did the world do, in terms of performance, over the past year in addressing each challenge?
・How should these challenges be ranked, in terms of their relative importance, for 2018?
・Which of these problems offers the greatest opportunity for breakthrough in 2018?
・What one reform would do the most to improve international cooperation on each issue in 2018?
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