It is in the current context of these challenges and the questions raised by today’s international  scenario that issue 125 of the Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior (RMPE) has been conceived as a space for expounding critical assessments and reflections, all documented and based on strategic criteria, on the importance and efficacy of multilateralism, not just today, but over the next 15 years—a crucial period in which we will have reached the deadline for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda that were agreed to by developed and lesser-developed countries alike to combat climate change, address migration and ensure human security, among other priority issues.

In this essentially pragmatic, forward-looking exercise in analysis that constitutes this issue of the RMPE, strategic thinking is the guiding principle underpinning the various topics analyzed. Following brief overviews, the authors turn their attention to the future in a series of articles grounded on specific factors and the actual installed capacity of multilateral organizations and their member States.