Global governance: tackling the issue of values

This tribune is based on Pascal Lamy’s speech, President of Honour of Notre Europe – Jacques Delors Institute and General Director of the World Trade Organisation, during the 5th edition of the World Policy Conference organised in Cannes (France) on 8 december 2012 on an IFRI initiative. He reviews achievements and difficulties of the global governance and suggests avenues for progress.

His comments are organised as follows:

• Progress in matters of global governance has long been hindered by specific difficulties, the nature of which is all too often underestimated.
• Nonetheless, global governance did make progress until it hit a stumbling block in the late 1990s.
• The past 20 years have exacerbated pre-existing difficulties.
• In this somewhat unfavourable context, I believe that some avenues of progress are nevertheless open to us.