I will be the moderator. Senior fellow at the Hudson Institute who put together this panel, which i think is on a key issue. It is talked about a lot, but there arent that many panels about the topic around town. I look forward to this discussion. As i mentioned for the past couple of years, there has been a lot of debate about Multilateral Institutions. And on chinas influence and how that is quickly growing and leading to changes in the fundamental rules of these institutions, and also giving rise to alternatives to the old ones. Arises then,that does that make the institutions that we already have counterproductive to preserving a liberal world order when authoritarian states rise within the institutions and partly take over responsibility for them . Another key issue is the one on fragile states. They seem to be continuously bogged down in poverty, lack of education, etc. Although, we have spent decades on development aid, peacekeeping, etc. From the institutions such as world bank
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