IT WAS A PLEASURE TO SERVE A TERM AS COEDITOR OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE together with Tom Farer. Most important, I want to give acknowledgment and unending gratitude to Matthew Klick, who served ably as managing editor of the journal during this tenure. As Torn Farer points out in this issue, our introductory piece in the first issue of volume 16, Enhancing International Cooperation, expressed our view that the current system of global is woefully inadequate to deal with the dramatic economic, social, and political evolution of the international system in the past two decades. Looking forward, we argued that new institutions, approaches, and partnerships will be needed to address these deficits of and the inability of the overall system to respond sufficiently to the increased need for global cooperation, and we invited aspirant authors to the journal to address these deficits. In volumes 16 through 19 of Global Governance, as editors, we were fortunate to publish a strong array of peer-reviewed scholarly research and to provide a place for top practitioners to express their voice on leading issues concerning the inadequacies of present global regimes and ways to improve them. We saw, during our tenure, special issues emerge on critical matters such as the global of international migration (Khalid Koser, guest editor), the hybrid peace governance debates in the field of peacebuilding and statebuilding (Roberto Belloni and Anna Jarstad, guest editors), and the global and local of extractive resources (Gilles Carbonnier, guest editor). Also published were special focus sections on the special representatives of the UN Secretary-General, NATO's roles in post-conflict contexts (led by Alexandra Gheciu and Roland Paris), the Group of 8 in Africa (led by David Black), complex multilateral regimes (led by Amandine Orsini, Jean-Frederic Morin, and Oran Young), and transnational river systems. In addition, there was a wide range of articles on global topics, from sanctions to UN management, climate change negotiations, international trade and financial flows, bioinvasion, support to democracy, power sharing in civil wars, Responsibility to Protect, new Global South alliances, and comparative studies on norm emergence, to mention just a few. There were also top-notch review essays of leading books on human rights, gender, peacebuilding, and global order. We hope that these volumes contribute to scholarly discourse on the specific topics they address and indeed to the understanding of global more broadly in terms of gaps and needed cooperative responses. As our period of tenure of editorial stewardship of the journal comes to an end, it is fitting to address the new urgency that characterizes today's international system in terms of peace and security. In reflection, I believe this new sense of urgency has emerged to dramatically improve global to prevent, manage, and mitigate intrastate conflict and to provide humanitarian relief. The shameful inability of the international community to stem the civil war in Syria, which began in 2011 and by the time of this writing has resulted in more than 100,000 fatalities, created 2 million refugees, and dislocated another 4 million--just as it threatens to escalate into a broader regional conflict--underscores that thinking in terms of necessity is not enough when it comes to global responses to violent intrastate conflict. The 1992 Agenda for Peace, penned by UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali following the first-ever meeting of the Security Council at the level of heads of state in January 1992, ultimately shaped the ability of the world's preeminent organization to adapt to the turbulent systemic change under way in the international system. The agenda reflected the turbulence and change in the early 1990s by reaffirming that volatile transition in political systems could yield state failure, ethnocide, and genocide and pose costly humanitarian tragedies not seen since World War IT; it was a sea change in world order. …
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