ODNI issues report on Global Governance 2025

The National Intelligence Council is “[t]he NIC is a center of strategic thinking within the US Government, reporting to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and providing the President and senior policymakers with analyses of foreign policy issues that have been reviewed and coordinated throughout the Intelligence Community,” according to the council's website.

The NIC noted in its 2008 report Global Trends 2025: A transformed World that the “the gap between increasing disorder and weakening governance structures widening.” The 2008 report follow-up on a 2006 EUISS report The New Global Puzzle. What World for the EU in 2025? which concluded “ that a multipolar system is emerging and that matching the new distribution of power with new rules and institutions will be critical to preserving international peace and stability.”

Seeing that the U.S. And the E.U.“share fundamental values and strategic interests” and that “[t]ransatlantic agreement is no longer enough to effectively manage global challenges,” the two organizations decided to collaborate on this new study. The study sought to address the question of “Global governance—the collective management of common problems at the international level—is at a critical juncture.”

The group felt that “non-State actors” could be “spoilers” of E.U. and U.S. Efforts at global governance in a “multi-polar world,” citing concerns about “criminal organizations and terrorist networks, all empowered by existing and new technologies” and looking to NGOs, civil society groups and “churches and faith-based organizations, multinational corporations, other business bodies” to “refram[e] issues and mobiliz[e] publics.”

The report address issues such as migration, climate change, terrorism, infectious diseases, and financial cooperation—stressing interdependence.

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