Introduction: Minervian Actors and the Paradox of Post-1995 Global Institution Building

2013 
Since the early 1990s, humanity has faced unprecedented challenges of coordination and governance. In addition to traditional security dilemmas and the increasingly complex management of the global economy, we are challenged by a growing list of pressing global issues that cannot be addressed by market mechanisms alone. These issues include climate change, environmental and biodiversity preservation, global food safety, population health and pandemics, cultural preservation, human rights, and human security. The functional need for cooperation among key states, as well as the rising plethora of non-state actors, may be higher than ever in human history. In a nutshell, humanity is at a crossroads. It enjoys historically high levels of prosperity, peace, and interdependence. Yet, it will be able to preserve these levels only if it is able to provide for indispensable global public goods and minimize pressing global public risks (Attali 2011; Flahault 2011; Malloch-Brown 2011; Ruby 2010).
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