Signal Two new coalitions form around global governance and Charter renewal

Summary

This signal points to two new groupings of states organising around the future of global governance. One, the Group of Friends of Global Governance, focuses on how governance can be improved in a world with several centres of power. The other, the Article 109 Coalition, aims to renew the UN Charter itself. They emerge while multilateralism is fracturing, cooperation has stalled and member states call for UN reform without a shared blueprint. Public backing for international cooperation remains above half even as favourability towards the UN has slipped. These coalitions show that some states are trying to turn that demand for reform into concrete institutional proposals.