Stewart M. Patrick

Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C., United States

Senior Fellow and Director at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Dad & stepdad. Amy’s husband. Citizen of Earth. Work in progress but feeling lucky. We/Us/Ours.

Articles

The Death of the World America Made

Jan 30, 2025 | carnegieendowment.org | Stewart M. Patrick

blog Emissary harnesses Carnegie’s global scholarship to deliver incisive, nuanced analysis on the most pressing international affairs challenges. program Carnegie’s Global Order and Institutions Program identifies promising new multilateral initiatives and frameworks to realize a more peaceful, prosperous, just, and sustainable world. That mission has never been more important, or more challenging.
Three Powerful Forces That May Thwart Trump’s Plans | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Jan 22, 2025 | carnegieendowment.org | Stewart M. Patrick

The incoming administration would be wise to reconsider some of its operating assumptions.
Trump’s Distorted View of Sovereignty and American Exceptionalism

Jan 20, 2025 | carnegieendowment.org | Stewart M. Patrick

The new administration’s retreat from global institutions and agreements is self-defeating. blog Emissary harnesses Carnegie’s global scholarship to deliver incisive, nuanced analysis on the most pressing international affairs challenges. program Carnegie’s Global Order and Institutions Program identifies promising new multilateral initiatives and frameworks to realize a more peaceful, prosperous, just, and sustainable world. That mission has never been more important, or more challenging.
Climate Policy Lame Duck

Nov 14, 2024 | wttlonline.com | Stewart M. Patrick

Multilateral conferences on Climate and Biodiversity held this month have yielded little progress, casting a further pall on the sprits of the more impacted countries and all concerned stewards of God's creation. The COP29 Climate meeting in petrostate Azerbaijan and the companion COP16 Biodiversity Summit in Colombia failed to make substantive progress and saw little participation, let alone leadership from the United States.
BRICS Expansion, the G20, and the Future of World Order | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Oct 9, 2024 | carnegieendowment.org | Stewart M. Patrick

With the addition of new members in BRICS+, the group of emerging powers will be more globally representative—but also face more internal divisions.
Trump’s Greenland and Panama Canal Threats Are a Throwback to an Old, Misguided Foreign Policy

Sep 10, 2024 | carnegieendowment.org | Stewart M. Patrick

blog Emissary harnesses Carnegie’s global scholarship to deliver incisive, nuanced analysis on the most pressing international affairs challenges. program Carnegie’s Global Order and Institutions Program identifies promising new multilateral initiatives and frameworks to realize a more peaceful, prosperous, just, and sustainable world. That mission has never been more important, or more challenging.
Reimagining Global Economic Governance: African and Global Perspectives

Jun 4, 2024 | carnegieendowment.org | Stewart M. Patrick |Elizabeth Sidiropoulos

In June 2024, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the South African Institute of International Affairs gathered an international group of experts and practitioners in Johannesburg, South Africa, to discuss the global economic governance system’s capacity to address today’s most pressing concerns, particularly in Africa. Around the world, many citizens and governments have become disillusioned with the neoliberal policies of Washington Consensus-era global governance.
Envisioning a Global Regime Complex to Govern Artificial Intelligence

Mar 20, 2024 | carnegieendowment.org | Emma Klein |Stewart M. Patrick

In spring 2023, OpenAI cofounders Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Ilya Sutskever proposed an “IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] for superintelligence efforts” to govern high-capability systems, noting the potential genesis of superintelligence in rapidly advancing artificial intelligence (AI) models.1 Soon after, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres lent his support to this idea.2 In the following months, others suggested an array of global institutions that could be...
Is This the Moment to Renew Global Governance? Prospects for the UN Summit of the Future

Feb 21, 2024 | carnegieendowment.org | Stewart M. Patrick |Guy Ryder |Jake Sherman |Minh-Thu Pham

This September, the United Nations will convene a Summit of the Future, designed to address the crisis of multilateralism by modernizing outdated institutions of global governance. Member states will be asked to endorse a Pact for the Future, a blueprint for international cooperation in the twenty-first century.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 75: An Unfinished Revolution

Dec 6, 2023 | tiny.cc | Stewart M. Patrick

On December 10, 1948, on the heels of history’s most destructive war and the horrors of the Holocaust, the members of the newly created United Nations Organization did something remarkable. They endorsed a bill of rights for humanity, in the form of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The handiwork of Eleanor Roosevelt and a team of talented international experts, the UDHR was a profound development in world politics.