Anne-Marie Slaughter is the CEO of New America and the former director of policy planning for the United States Department of State and dean of Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs.
She recently spoke with Nils Gilman, the vice president of programs at the Berggruen Institute and deputy editor of Noema Magazine, and Jonathan S. Blake, a 2020-21 Berggruen Institute fellow, about the design and legitimacy of governing institutions for the 21st century.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
To tackle planetary problems like the climate crisis and pandemics, we have to tear down old hierarchies and build new, fluid networks of people, cities and organizatio...
