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FOUND: How to invigorate multilateralism - What They Never Told You

A general view of the opening day of the 51st session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday.(Photo: AFP)

Multilateralism, embodied in the United Nations (UN) as the world’s primary body for fostering international relations and international law among all countries, has been the mainstay of global history since the World War II.

It has enjoyed ups and downs throughout the decades since the middle of the 1940s. Although the 1990s witnessed a warming of relations between several countries after years of Cold War (due to the discomfort zone between capitalism and socialism), the 2020s are now witnessing a downturn which is disquieting. How then to re-energise that setting?

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