Post-globalisation world still incapable of dealing with global problems

Richard Haass says both the Covid-19 pandemic and climate crisis demonstrate the woeful inadequacy of efforts to address the problematic aspects of globalisation.

In the western states of the US, wildfires rage out of control as the temperatures climb. Picture: Noah Berger/AP

THE summer of 2021 has come to be largely defined by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and accelerating climate change.

Both are manifestations of globalisation and the reality of a world increasingly defined by the vast and fast cross-border flows of just about everything, from goods, services, and capital to data, terrorists, and disease.