This week’s summits exposed a world split between Western dysfunction and the Global Majority’s pragmatic rise
Today, it is difficult to find two more contrasting approaches to diplomacy as a tool of interstate engagement than those practiced by the countries of the “global minority” and the states of the “global majority.” While some nations, despite being located in immediate geographic proximity to one another, remain unable to reach a compromise on even the most pressing issues of our time, others – separated by thousands of miles – continue to expand the full spectrum of their bilateral and multilateral ties, helping to ease international tensions and advancing similar approaches to solving the world’s most critical challenges.
These two realities, as different as night and day, were brought into especially sharp focus by two major summits held this week: the G7 meeting in Evian, France, and the celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Russia-ASEAN strategic partnership in Kazan.
A diplomatic crisis for the collective West
Known for its spa resorts, which gained worldwide fame thanks to the bottled water brand that bears its name, the town of Evian-les-Bains typically leaves visitors with the same sense of tranquility associated with places such as Spa in Belgium, Baden-Baden in Germany, or Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic. This time, however, the participants gathered in Haute-Savoie were clearly in no mood for relaxation. The summit of the last fully functioning multilateral platform representing the “collective West” ended amid a string of controversies and became a genuine stress test of the ability of the United States and its allies to develop collective solutions to complex problems.
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