Until recently, the world was fast becoming an interconnected global village. The Cold War was becoming a distant memory, and the East-West divide was becoming less about ideology and more about geography. But then came the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict. In the blink of an eye, the old divisions began to resurface.
Great strides have been made toward connecting the global architecture to focus on greater coordination between development and security for the benefit of humanity, as opposed to the benefit of individual nations, which is often skewed in favor of the developed
