World-scale problems, the collective action problem, and multilateral policymaking as breakthrough

Climate warming, pandemics and mass migration are at the top of today's list of world problems. The difficulty of responding to such problems by building binding policies for all sovereign states is clearly represented by the collective action problem image. This work examines the contemporary experience of multilateralism as the way to overcome such problem in the world increasingly aware of being a risk society. The paper compares the post-World War II multilateral policies and the current multilateral policymaking towards the problem of climate warming. Based on the change in multilateral policymaking highlighted by the comparative analysis and bearing in mind that sovereign states are the owners of the formation and implementation of world policies, the paper assesses the applicability of multilateral policymaking also towards pandemics and forced mass migration.