title: Transcending Imperialist/Sub-Imperialist Partnerships
abstract: At a time of extreme political volatility, various multilateral sites of decision-making are no longer effective for solving world problems. Prior generations of global-scale deals had included a 1987 chlorofluorocarbon ban to halt ozone-hole deterioration, a 2002 medicines fund for AIDS, and—reflecting both financial power and vulnerability—the coordinated 2008–11 G20 financial bailouts. By the early 2020s, the Covid-19 pandemic showed that in spite of Quantitative Easing (printing money) and m