Kluwer: Is International Commercial Arbitration Still Working? Arbitration Under Geopolitical Pressure

Published on September 29, 2026

Few questions in international commercial arbitration are as contested now as the simplest one: is the system still working? The Finland Arbitration Instituteโ€™s 115th anniversary conference in August, which brought together some 290 participants representing 40 jurisdictions, took that question as its starting point. Gary Born opened with an unambiguous answer.