The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting for 2025 is taking place from 20 to 24 January in, as usual, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland.  The theme of this year’s meeting is “Collaboration for the Intelligent Age” and will focus on various topics including AI transformation, resilience and geopolitics, energy transition, women’s health and 21^st century leadership.

Ahead of the Globalists’ annual shindig, on 7 January World Economic Forum President Børge Brende and McKinsey Global Managing Partner Bob Sternfels held a press briefing to unveil the second edition of the “Global Cooperation Barometer.”  It’s a tool to measure and guide collaboration across trade, technology, climate, health and security.

While we have little to no interest in the WEF-McKinsey collaboration on a tool to “measure and guide” the world on how to “collaborate,” Brende espoused his view about the incoming “New World Order.”

“The Barometer, with the 41 different indicators, gives us a feel of where global cooperation stands today,” Brende said.  He blabbed on:

“The three decades of increased cooperation that we saw after the Cold War has definitely ended.  We are between World Orders.  We had one World Order post the Cold War that enhanced and incentivised cooperation.

“And no, we don’t really know what the New World Order is about but cooperation also has to play a role in that New World Order.

“But currently between orders, and we know that from history too, there is disorder.  So, one has to really struggle to find ways of cooperating when countries are also competing – competing for increased influence in a new world.  

“And, hopefully, this New World Order is not the jungle growing back but there is ways, also, to collaborate in a very competitive world. One can look at the situation like a glass half empty or a glass half full.”

Later, at around timestamp 30:00, he gave a little more information about what is causing their concern about the New World Order which “hopefully … is not the jungle growing back.”

“The New World Order is a very competitive World Order, “he said. “And I think the new Trump Administration will underpin this.  But I think history has shown us that we are able to also deal with that and grapple with that. I choose to look at it as a glass half full and not half empty as I said at the beginning.”

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