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The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.

Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.

The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

Let me let you in on a little secret. There is no such thing as an international community. There are self-maximizing, self-interested states that will push their interests as far as possible.

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

Globalisation must have, as a critical component, international dispensation in the locality of U.N. institutions. It cannot be, and must not be, business as usual in the establishment and location of international institutions, especially of the United Nations.

International regimes, international treaties, international norms are observed not because of the goodness of anybody but because they bring benefits. If they don't, then the longevity of those agreements come into jeopardy.

I have full confidence in the IMF. It is a very strong international institution.

International legitimacy is a fundamental source of power for Israel nowadays.