Enhancing Global Governance

by Cooper, Andrew F.; English, John; Thakur, Ramesh Chandra

• ISBN13: 9789280810745
• ISBN10: 928081074X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: United Nations Univ

Summary

Enhancing Global Governance analyzes the means by which global governance has been promoted by innovative diplomatic practices. The impetus for a new diplomacy has emerged not from traditional channels, but through a series of cross cutting coalitions among like-minded states and civil society. The question of how these alternative leadership forms have been expressed through the United Nations system, together with an evaluation of the impact they have achieved, provides the fundamental theme of this book. Following an overview of the frustrations concerning the nature of leadership from the UN Security Council, experts look at the manner in which innovative diplomatic practices played out in two significant case studies: the development of the Ottawa Treaty to ban anti-personnel landmines and the campaign to establish an international court. The book then reviews the application of new diplomacy approaches, first in the commercial domain of international activity, particularly in the application of codes of conduct that would affect both states and global business, and then in selected areas of the expanded security agenda; including child soldiers and the exportation of diamonds from areas of conflict.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Like-minded nations, NGOs, and the changing pattern of diplomacy within the UN system: An introductory perspective	1	(18)
Andrew F. Cooper
The future of the UN Security Council: Questions of legitimacy and representation in multilateral governance	19	(19)
W. Andy Knight
The new diplomacy at the United Nations: How substantive?	38	(17)
David Malone
Why is the USA not a like-minded country? Some structural notes and historical considerations	55	(14)
James Reed
Global civil society and the Ottawa process: Lessons from the movement to ban anti-personnel mines	69	(21)
Maxwell A. Cameron
The United Nations, NGOs, and the land-mines initiative: An Australian perspective	90	(16)
William Maley
Harnessing social power: State diplomacy and the land-mines issue	106	(27)
Iver B. Neumann
Peace, Justice, and politics: The International Criminal Court ``new diplomacy'', and the UN system	133	(19)
Alistair D. Edgar
Between counter-hegemony and post-hegemony: The Rome Statute and normative innovation in world politics	152	(10)
Philip Nel
Industry regulation and self-regulation: The case of labour standards	162	(25)
Virginia Haufler
Negotiating a code of conduct: A Canadian experience	187	(16)
John English
Doing the business? The International Chamber of Commerce, the United Nations, and the Global Compact	203	(26)
Brian Hocking
Dominic Kelly
Codes of conduct and children in armed conflicts	229	(19)
Deirdre van der Merwe
Mark Malan
Smarter, sharper, stronger? UN sanctions and conflict diamonds in Angola	248	(20)
Kim Richard Nossal
Security in the new millennium	268	(19)
Ramesh Thakur
Acronyms	287	(3)
Contributors	290	(3)
Index	293