Grounds Why Is International Cooperation Important Globally

Posted by Mae on December 24th, 2020

Read on to find out a handful of features of international dialogue you possibly will not have known.

As we head towards the new year, and thus hope we are approaching the terminal point of this tunnel we’ve been going through this current year, we must think about which lessons we may be able to take with us to the future. The question of international cooperation is naturally one of the first to spring to mind. Most countries have made an effort to collaborate to really make the situation better for all on a global level, and also this has truly made a difference to the outcomes. We have to take this forward into international cooperation on climate change. It really is our next and most long-term challenge, which has only partially been put on pause because of the recent crisis. We need to focus on the problem and then make sure we can work towards a safer world for all, as António Guterres needs to remember.

We have all been hearing a lot lately about international health cooperation, exactly what can it be and why could it be important? Well, it is good to consider that we now have many types of international cooperation, and diplomacy or state-level dialogue is just one of them. We talk to people of other countries in so many different ways and at so many different levels, sometimes doing so much more than governments may do by themselves. While common policies, treaties, and conferences are somewhat rigid structures that will only achieve so much, academia, businesses, and civil society collaborate across countries on a variety of levels. The recent pooling of expertise, techniques, and resources to obtain an answer to the most recent common struggle happens to be exemplary and will surely figure in the history books. Change can often come more organically from below faster than it could come from above, as Ban Ki-Moon knows.

In this specific instant, international cooperation might be more vital than in the past. While our singular governments can only just keep so much in check by themselves, the international community can coordinate a lot more. Our society, it really is good to consider, is and will also be globalised for a long time, and there is little point in looking for national answers to global problems. However, it is sometimes difficult to think about historical examples of international cooperation, because we have been very much accustomed to thinking that states cannot collaborate. But needless to say, countries have often collaborated before when finding a remedy benefits everyone, a prime example being needless to say times during war. Indeed, the key reason international organisations like the UN have already been created is to foster dialogue and cooperation to fix common problems, as Jamal Benomar knows.