A global firestorm of national security concerns is reshaping the international order to one in which deals are replacing the multilaterally agreed rules that have allowed the world to prosper in relative peace. With this paper, Hector Rogelio Torres aims to prompt a debate on how the G-20 could address this crisis by improving representation and working practices in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Trade Organization (WTO). Writing from an insider's perspective, he argues that restoring confidence in economic interdependence will require simultaneous, balanced and incremental reforms in the WTO and the IMF - two key pillars of the international institutional architecture. Can this architecture be saved? This paper provides a compelling perspective on just how it can.