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Brazilian foreign policy under Lula has emphasized not only traditional multilateralism but also membership in the new formal and informal groupings that have emerged at the heart of a new world order.

An interview with Anne-Marie Slaughter, president of the New America Foundation, is presented. Among other things, Slaughter talks about the nature of global governance and, on a more personal level, whether women, or for that matter men, can have it all. Adapted from the source document.

THE NEW WOLRD ORDER IS DEPICTED IN TERMS OF THREE BASIC PARAMETERS THAT BIND THE GLOBAL SYSTEM. AT THE MICRO LEVEL THE ANALYTIC SKILLS OF INDIVIDUALS ARE CONCEIVED TO HAVE UNDEGONE EXTENSIVE EXPANSION. AT THE MICRO LEVEL THE TRANSFORMATION INVOLVES THE BIFURCATION OF WORLD POLITICS INTO A STATE-CENTRIC WORLD AND A MULTI-CENTRIC WORLD. AT THE MACRO-MICRO LEVEL, TRANSFORMATION IS SEEN TO HAVE OCCURRED IN AUTHORITY RELATIONS. THE EMERGENT GLOBAL ORDER IS VIEWED AS ENCOURAGING THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF THE TENSIONS, THE OUTCOME OF WHICH IS READILY DISCERNIBLE IN PRESENTDAY RELATIONS AMONG THE STATES.

The article explores the process of western liberalization worldwide in the last 70 years and how it has shaped our current belief about health and consumption of healthcare services. It starts with the changing nature of public health at the expense of health promotion and the vulnerable position of WHO which allowed the rise of non-state actors within the global health agenda. It then follows with the process of globalization with the diffusion of western liberal ideologies globally and causing a rise in the medicalization of our daily life. With health increasingly being used in political discourse, we have seen a rise in welfare state and its associated ill-effects on healthcare services. Lastly, the article explores the recently developed concept of global public health goods and how from parallel issues, is unlikely to be not beneficial to the global health agenda. It is concluded with the recommendation of global actors need to evolve to use their domain of expertise to advance the agenda including the need for self-financing strategies for independence in policymaking. There is also the urgent need to foster regional collaboration for accountability and conduct research and development with cost-effectiveness and equity in the early stages.

Global geopolitical relations are being shaken to their roots, and no region in the world is more entangled in this than Latin America. Trump's foreign policy is transforming the role played by the United States on the world stage, questioning multilateralism and casting a shadow on the whole idea of global governance. Other world powers, especially Russia and China, are not sitting idly by. The European Union has an opportunity to take on the mantle of guarantor of liberal values and the multilateral order, and to strengthen its alliance with Latin American countries. This report helps to delve deeper into the region's shifting dynamics. How are the US, China, and the EU competing in terms of political alliances and economic projection towards the Latin American region? And how are some of the main Latin American countries (namely Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela) contributing to change the regional picture?