The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Pascal Lamy, delivered a keynote address on Global Governance at the 5th World Policy Conference, in Cannes, in December 2012. He made four key points: Progress in global governance has long been hindered by specific difficulties, the nature of which is often underestimated; global governance did advance until it hit a stumbling block in the late 1990s; the past twenty years have exacerbated the difficulties then encountered; but some avenues of progress are nonetheless available. […]
For a reasonably open world
