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Analysts say reaching consensus on pressing issues at the annual leader’s summit could prove elusive.

<p>Stewart M. Patrick is the James H. Binger senior fellow in global governance and director of the International Institutions and Global Governance Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. His WPR column appears every Monday.<br /><br />His areas of expertise include multilateral cooperation on global issues; U.S. policy toward international institutions, including the United Nations; and the challenges posed by fragile and post-conflict states. Patrick is the author of&nbsp;&ldquo;<a href="https://www.cfr.org/book/sovereignty-wars">The&nbsp;S...

Competing UN credential submissions are not unprecedented. Many of the pressures and challenges of the modern era, however, are.

Print An Indigenous girl from the Parintintin tribe sits on a cut tree trunk in Traira village near Humaita, Amazonas State, Brazil, on August 16, 2019. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino Blog Post Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. I  write about three of the most important factors behind the rise in zoonoses and four priorities for multilateral cooperation grounded in a “One Health” approach. The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted humanity’s growing vulnerability to emerging infectious d...

Biden must also reconcile his multilateral ambitions with his administration’s hard-line on China, a rare element of continuity with his predecessor’s foreign policy. Washington must figure out how to compartmentalize its relations with Beijing, so that the two countries can cooperate in global forums where their interests align, notwithstanding their intense geopolitical rivalry and mutual strategic mistrust. Before addressing those complications, let’s review Biden’s main multilateral initiatives. Global Health Security Biden’s top short-term policy priority is defeating COVID-1...