CARO International Relations Team

Structural Fairness & Legitimacy Stress Initiative Phase I Outreach Report

Executive Summary Between early and mid-February 2026, CARO conducted a targeted, elite-level outreach campaign introducing a mechanism-level research question: Can legitimacy erosion be treated as a detectable system condition (“legitimacy stress”) that serves as an early-warning layer for pre-escalation in democratic and multilateral governance? The campaign was: Total institutions contacted: 15+Total named individuals contacted: 10+…

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