By ‘Cooperation Has to Play a Role in the New World Order’: WEF President Brende
by Tim Hinchcliffe | The Sociable
We are now between world orders, and global cooperation will have to play a role in the coming new world order, according to World Economic Forum (WEF) president and CEO Børge Brende.
Two weeks ahead of the 2025 WEF Annual Meeting, Brende spoke at the launch of the WEF’s “Global Cooperation Barometer” on Tuesday, saying that the post-Cold War world order was definitely over and that he didn’t know what the new world order was about, but that it required greater collaboration.
“We are between world orders […] We really don’t know what the new world order is about […] Hopefully, this new world order is not the jungle growing back”
WEF President Børge Brende, Global Cooperation Barometer, January 2025
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“One can say that three decades of increased cooperation that we saw after the Cold War has definitely ended,” said Brende.
“We are between world orders. We had one world order post the Cold War that enhanced and incentivized cooperation.
“Now we don’t really know what the new world order is about, but cooperation has to play a role in that new world order.
“Currently, between orders, and we know that from history too, that there is disorder, so one has to really struggle to find ways of cooperating when countries are also competing — competing for increased influence in a new world.
“Hopefully, this new world order is not the jungle growing back, but there is [sic] ways also to collaborate in a very competitive world,” he added.
“Cooperation is at risk of becoming elusive as the world seems poised to enter a period of instability and volatility – an era of greater geopolitical (and, in some cases, political) disorder”
WEF, Global Cooperation Barometer, January 2025
