Global governance in a changing world Updated: 2013-01-22 07:42
By Giles Chance (China Daily) Each year in January the World
Economic Forum brings together leaders from business,
government, academia and the media at its headquarters in Davos,
Switzerland, for five days of lectures and discussions about
issues of global importance. Each meeting has a theme aimed at
capturing important current events. Since 2008, when the
financial crash in the United States changed the way the world
works, the themes have related to key aspects of the post-crisis
landscape. January 2009's conference was billed "Shaping the
Post-Crisis World", and in 2010, it was "Improve the State of
the World: Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild". In 2011 "Shared Norms
for the New Reality" signaled acceptance of the new global
balance of power. Last year's theme was "The Great
Transformation: Shaping New Models". This year's theme,
"Resilient Dynamism", suggests that after four years in which
the expected global economic recovery has failed to materi