US Hegemony and International Organizations

by Foot, Rosemary; MacFarlane, S. Neil; Mastanduno, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780199261437
• ISBN10: 0199261431
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The relationship between a powerful United States of America and some of the central multilateral organizations in global society is an essential feature of contemporary international relations. US Hegemony and International Organizations brings together a range of leading scholars to examine this crucial phenomenon. Its aims are two-fold: to describe and explain US behaviour in and towards a wide range of significant international institutions; and secondly to examine the impact of US behaviour on the capacity of each organization to meet its own objectives. The study explores US behaviour and its consequences for organizations based at the regional as well as the global level, for those located in different regions of the world, and for such issue areas as security, economics, and the environment. Although focusing on the period since the 1990s, each chapter places its findings in a broader historical context. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	ix
List of Abbreviations	xii
Introduction	1	(24)
Rosemary Foot
S. Neil MacFarlane
Michael Mastanduno
I PERSPECTIVES ON THE US AND MULTILATERAL INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Exceptionalism and International Organization: Lessons from the 1990s	25	(24)
Edward C. Luck
State Power and the Institutional Bargain: America's Ambivalent Economic and Security Multilateralism	49	(24)
G. John Ikenberry
II THE US AND GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONS
US--UN Relations in the UN Security Council in the Post-Cold War Era	73	(19)
David M. Malone
The United States and the International Financial Institutions: Power and Influence Within the World Bank and the IMF	92	(23)
Ngaire Woods
The United States and the GATT/WTO System	115	(24)
Gautam Sen
Looking Beyond the `K-Word': Embedded Multilateralism in American Foreign Environmental Policy	139	(28)
Stephen Hopgood
III THE US AND REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Making Africa Safe for Capitalism: US Policy and Multilateralism in Africa	167	(26)
Philip Nel
US Approaches to Multilateral Security and Economic Organizations in the Asia-Pacific	193	(22)
Ralph A. Cossa
Trouble in Pax Atlantica? The United States, Europe, and the Future of Multilateralism	215	(24)
David G. Haglund
Power Multiplied or Power Restrained? The United States and Multilateral Institutions in the Americas	239	(26)
Hal Klepak
Conclusion: Instrumental Multilateralism in US Foreign Policy	265	(8)
Rosemary Foot
S. Neil MacFarlane
Michael Mastanduno
Select Bibliography	273	(5)
Index	278