Multilateralism Under Challenge

by Newman, Edward; Thakur, Ramesh Chandra; Tirman, John

• ISBN13: 9789280811292
• ISBN10: 9280811290
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-30
• Publisher: United Nations Univ

Summary

The principles, values, and manifestations of multilateralism, including the United Nations, are under sustained scrutiny and assault. Their performance and effectiveness are questioned, as are their decisionmaking procedures and their representation, according to 21st-century standards of accountability and democracy. All of this has a corrosive effect on their legitimacy.Multilateralism under Challenge? explores the performance and future of multilateral approaches and institutions with reference to major global problems such as terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, HIV/AIDS, environmental sustainability, economic justice, human rights, and humanitarian assistance."Multilateralism is an essential component of international life, as the contributions to this volume clearly demonstrate. We need to make multilateralism more effective and more accountable, to be sure. This book advances constructive ideas on how to do just that." --John G. Ruggie, Harvard University

Table of Contents

Figures	p. viii
Contributors	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Themes	p. 19
Saving humanity from hell	p. 21
IndexCommunitarian multilateralism	p. 34
The contingent legitimacy of multilateralism	p. 56
Power and world order	p. 77
Multilateralism, sovereignty and normative change in world	p. 95
From (alleged) unipolarity to the decline of multilateralism? A power-theoretical critique	p. 119
The genealogy of muUilateralism: Reflections on an organizational form and its crisis	p. 139
Multilateral crises in historical perspective	p. 160
Issues and challenges	p. 179
Something old, something new: Theoretical perspectives on contemporary international peace and security	p. 181
Weapons of mass destruction	p. 207
International humanitarianism in the contemporary world: Forms and issues	p. 234
Progress and problems in the multilateral human rights regime	p. 259
Environmental multilateralism under challenge?	p. 289
AIDS, power, culture and multilateralism	p. 308
The uninvited challenge: Terrorism targets the United Nations	p. 336
Civil wars, globalization, and the "Washington Consensus"	p. 356
Using military force for human protection: What next?	p. 376
Social movements and multilateralism	p. 395
Multilateralism and economic justice	p. 422
From unilateralism to bilateralism: Challenges for the multilateral trade system	p. 441
Multilateralism as a way of life in Europe	p. 460
Between a rock and a hard place: Latin America and multilateralism after 9/11	p. 481
From economic to security multilateralism: Great powers and international order in the Asia Pacific	p. 504
Conclusions: Multilateralism under challenge or in crisis?	p. 531
Index	p. 541
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