From Corporates to International Governance: The Coming of the ‘Platform Economy’

... a cumulative increase in the weight of the network’s ecosystem is starting to reach a scale that has important implications for the global governance framework and its future development. Indeed, at this stage all of the main centres of the world economy are coming up with their own platforms that are imbued with a certain vision of how the globalisation process is to unfold. In the case of the EU it is the Alliance for Multilateralism (launched in April 2019), in the case of the US apart from the Trans-Pacific and the Trance-Atlantic projects that have lost some of the lustre in the past 3-4 years, it is the Quad/Quad+ that is gaining increasing ...