The Global Cooperation Barometer 2026

The 2026 Global Cooperation Barometer finds that overall global cooperation remains broadly stable, but its structure is shifting away from traditional multilateralism toward more flexible, smaller and alignment-based arrangements. While trade, innovation, climate, and health cooperation continue in selective areas—often among like-minded partners—multilateral systems face mounting strain, particularly in trade governance, development aid, and peace and security, where cooperation has weakened markedly amid rising conflict and displacement. These trends suggest that global cooperation is not retreating, but being reconfigured, underscoring the need for leaders to adapt by strengthening resilience, building new capabilities, and pursuing issue-specific cooperation formats suited to a more fragmented world.

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