Innovation in Multilateralism

by Schechter, Michael G.

• ISBN13: 9780312215392
• ISBN10: 0312215398
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The chapters in this volume identify and assess the political process and bases of support for multilateralism in terms of the shifting power relations in world politics, institutional innovations in the United Nations and non-UN multilateralisms. They seek to answer the question: What can and should be done to confront salient issues of the global problematic ? More specifically, the contributors ask whether currently existing multilateral mechanisms are up to the challenge.

Author Biography

Michael G. Schechter is Professor of International Relations at James Madison College of Michigan State University.

Table of Contents

List of Appendices and Tables	vii	(2)
Preface	ix	(2)
Acknowledgements	xi	(1)
Notes on the Contributors	xii	(3)
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations	xv	(4)
Introduction	xix
Michael G. Schechter
Part I The Evolving Global Structure and the United Nations System	1	(112)
1 International Institutions: Obstacles, Agents or Conduits of Global Structural Change?	1	(28)
Michael G. Schechter
2 United Nations Reform: A Strategy of Avoidance	29	(13)
Marie-Claude Smouts
3 The United Nations and the Crossroads of Reform	42	(19)
Abelardo Morales
4 Northern Perspectives for Peace and Security Functions of the United Nations	61	(52)
Takeo Uchida
Part II Evolving Global Structure and Institutional Innovation	113	(92)
5 Structural Changes in Multilateralism: The G-7 Nexus and the Global Crisis	113	(53)
Stephen Gill
6 Implications of the Evolving Global Structure for the UN System: A View from the South	166	(39)
Jonas Zoninsein
Part III Post-Hegemonic Multilateralism and Beyond	205	(130)
7 Expanding the Limits of Imagination: Human Rights from a Participatory Approach to New Multilateralism	205	(18)
Abdullahi A. An-Na'im
8 Indigenous Peoples and Developments in International Law: Toward Change through Multilateralism and the Modern Human Rights Frame	223	(41)
S. James Anaya
9 AIDS and Multilateral Governance	264	(39)
Peter Soderholm
10 Gender, Social Movements and Multilateralism: A Case Study of Women's Organizing in Russia	303	(32)
Elena Ershova
Linda Racioppi
Katherine O'Sullivan See
Books and Articles Published (or to be Published) through MUNS	335	(1)
Table of Contents of Titles in MUNS Subseries	336	(4)
Index of Names	340	(2)
Index of Subjects	342