Can the World Be Governed?
Possibilities for Effective Multilateralism
Herausgeber: Alexandroff, Alan S
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In this book, leading international relations experts and practitioners examine through theory and case study the prospect for successful multilateral management of the global economy and international security. In the theory section contributors tackle the big questions: Why is there an apparent rising tide of calls for reform of current multilateral organizations and institutions? Why are there growing questions over the effectiveness of global governance? Is the reform of current organizations and institutions likely or possible? Case studies include the examination of difficulties facing…mehr
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- Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Seitenzahl: 444
- Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2008
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 30mm
- Gewicht: 672g
- ISBN-13: 9781554580415
- ISBN-10: 1554580412
- Artikelnr.: 26280757
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- Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r
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- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
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Can the World Be Governed? Possibilities for Effective Multilateralism
edited by Alan S. Alexandroff
Introduction Alan S. Alexandroff
1. Incentive Compatibility and Global Governance: Existential
Multilateralism, a Weakly Confederal World, and Hegemony Arthur A. Stein
2. A Grand Coalition and International Governance Richard Rosecrance
3. America and teh Reform of Global Institutions G. John Ikenberry
4. Two Challenges to Institutionalism Daniel W. Drezner
5. Insternational Institutions and Collective Authorization in the Use of
Force James D. Fearon
6. Multilateralism on Trial: From the 2005 UN Summit to Today's Reality
Ferry de Kerckhove
7. Facing the Global Problems of Development Paul Collier
8. Can the Trading System Be Governed? Institutional Implications of the
WTO's Suspended Animation Robert Wolfe
9. Slipping into Obscurity: Crisis and Institutional Reform at the IMF
Eric Helleiner and Bessma Momani
10. A Comment on the Effective Possibilities of Multilateralism Patricia
Goff
Conclusion Alan S. Alexandroff
Index
Contributors
Alan S. Alexandroff is research director for the Program on Conflict
Management and Negotiation at the Munk Centre for International Studies,
University of Toronto. He has taught international trade and politics,
conflict management, and dispute resolution at a number of North American
institutions, including Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario), McGill
University, and the University of California at Los Angeles, as well as at
the University of Toronto. His research and writing interests include
trade, investment, and trade policy in North America; the multilateral
trading system; Chinas accession to the World Trade Organization and its
integration into the global economy; and conflict management in the
international system, including the reform of global governance. Dr.
Alexandroff is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance
Innovation. His most recent publication is Trends in World Trade: Essays in
Honor of Sylvia Ostry (2007), for which he served as editor and
contributor.
Paul Collier is professor of economics and director of the Centre for the
Study of African Economies at Oxford University. From 1998 to 2003 he was
director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank. Professor
Collier is a specialist in the political, economic, and developmental
predicaments of poor countries. He holds a Distinction Award from Oxford
University, and in 1988 he was awarded the Edgar Graham Book Prize for the
co-written Labour and Poverty in Rural Tanzania. He is also the author of
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be
Done about It (2007), in which he discusses the pros and cons of
developmental aid to developing countries.
Ferry de Kerckhove is director general of the International Organizations
Bureau, part of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade, and the personal representative of the prime minister
of Canada for la Francophonie, the international organization of
French-speaking countries. He is responsible for the programs and
specialized agencies of the UN covered by Canada's missions in New York,
Geneva, Paris, and Rome, and for relations between Canada, the
Commonwealth, and la Francophonie. Born in Belgium, Mr. de Kerckhove has a
B.Soc. Sc. (Honours) in economics and an M.A. in political science from the
University of Ottawa and pursued Ph.D. studies at Université Laval in
Quebec City. In 1973 he entered the Canadian foreign service, where he has
had a distinguished career, having held posts as minister and deputy head
of mission in Moscow, high commissioner to Pakistan, and ambassador to both
Indonesia and East Timor. In September 2003, he joined the School of
Political Studies at the University of Ottawa as diplomat in residence. He
has published several papers on international relations and Islamic
fundamentalism in specialized journals.
Daniel W. Drezner is associate professor of international politics at the
Fletcher School, Tufts University. He received his B.A. from Williams
College and his Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. He
previously taught at the University of Chicago and the University of
Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of All Politics Is Global (2007),
U.S. Trade Policy (2006), and The Sanctions Paradox (1999). Professor
Drezner has published articles in numerous scholarly journals as well as in
the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs. He has
received fellowships from the German Marshall Fund of the United States,
the Council on Foreign Relations, and Harvard University, and has held
positions with the Civic Education Project, the RAND Corporation, and the
US Treasury Department. He keeps a daily weblog at danieldrezner.com.
James D. Fearon is Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor in the School of
Humanities and Sciences and professor of political science at Stanford
University. His research has focused on democracy and international
disputes, explanations for interstate wars, and the causes of civil and
especially ethnic violence. Representative publications include
"Neotrusteeship and the Problem of Weak States" (International Security,
Spring 2004), "Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War" (American Political
Science Review, February 2003), and "Iraq's Civil War" (Foreign Affairs,
March/April 2007). He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of the
Arts and Sciences in 2002.
Patricia M. Goff is associate professor of political science at Wilfrid
Laurier University and a senior fellow at the Centre for International
Governance Innovation. Her fields of expertise include international
relations and international political economy. She is co-editor (with Kevin
Dunn) of Identity and Global Politics: Empirical and Theoretical
Elaborations (2004) and (with Paul Heinbecker) Irrelevant or Indispensable?
The United Nations in the 21st Century (2005), and the author of Limits to
Liberalization: Local Culture in a Global Marketplace (2007). Dr. Goff
holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University, a Diplôme
études approfondies in comparative politics from the University of Paris,
an M.A. in French literature from McMaster University, and a B.A. (Honours)
from the University of Western Ontario. She is associate editor of Behind
the Headlines, a publication of the Canadian Institute of International
Affairs, and executive director of the Academic Council on the United
Nations System.
Eric Helleiner is CIGI (Centre for International Governance Innovation)
Chair in International Governance and professor in the Department of
Political Science, University of Waterloo. He is also director of the M.A.
program at Waterloo and of the Ph.D. program in global governance at both
Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. His research focuses on
North--South international financial relations. He is currently a Trudeau
Foundation fellow and co-editor of the book series Cornell Studies in
Money. He is the author of States and the Reemergence of Global Finance
(1994), The Making of National Money (2003), and Towards North American
Monetary Union? (2006), for which he received the Donner Prize for the best
book on Canadian public policy. He is also co-editor of Nation-States and
Money (1999) and Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World (2005), and
has received the Marvin Gelber Essay Prize in International Relations from
the Canadian Institute for International Affairs.
G. John Ikenberry is Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and
International Affairs at Princeton University. He is author of After
Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order
after Major War (2001), which won the 2002 Schroeder-Jervis Award presented
by the American Political Science Association for the best book in
international history and politics. He is currently writing a sequel to
this book, Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of
the American System. A collection of his essays, Liberal Order and Imperial
Ambition: American Power and International Order, was published in 2006 by
Polity Press. Among his many activities, Professor Ikenberry served as a
member of an advisory group at the US State Department in 2003-04. He has
lectured throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is also the
reviewer of books on political and legal affairs for Foreign Affairs.
Bessma Momani is an assistant professor in the Departments of Political
Science and History at the University of Waterloo and a senior fellow at
the Centre for International Governance and Innovation. She specializes in
the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Middle East economic
liberalization. Co-author of the textbook Twentieth-Century World History,
she has published a monograph entitled IMF-Egyptian Debt Negotiations. Dr.
Momani has also published articles about the IMF in Review of International
Political Economy, Asian Affairs, Global Society, Journal of International
Relations and Development, New Political Economy, Canadian Journal of
Political Science, and Review of International Organizations. On economic
liberalization in the Middle East, she has published in Middle East Review
of International Affairs, World Economy, and World Economics.
Richard Rosecrance is adjunct professor in public policy at Harvard
University, research professor of political science at the University of
California, and senior fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs. He was formerly director of the Burkle Center for
International Relations at UCLA. He has written widely on international
topics. Among his publications are The Rise of the Trading State (1986),
America's Economic Resurgence (1990), The Domestic Bases of Grand Strategy
(co-editor, 1993), The Rise of the Virtual State (1999), The Costs of
Conflict (co-editor, 1999), The New Great Power Coalition (editor, 2001),
and No More States? Globalization, Self-Determination, and Terrorism
(co-editor, 2006). His next book is entitled Mergers among Nations.
Professor Rosecrance served on the Policy Planning Council of the US State
Department and has received Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie, and
many other fellowships. He has held regular university posts at Cornell
University and the University of California at Berkeley and visiting
positions at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Kings
College (London), London School of Economics, European University Institute
(Florence), and Australian National University.
Arthur A. Stein is professor of political science, University of California
at Los Angeles. He has an A.B. from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. from
Yale University. He has written widely on international economic and
strategic affairs and is the author of The Nation at War (1980) and Why
Nations Cooperate (1991), and co-editor of The Domestic Bases of Grand
Strategy (1993) and No More States? Globalization, National
Self-Determination, and Terrorism (2006). He has served on the Policy
Planning Staff of the US State Department and consulted for US defense and
intelligence agencies. Professor Stein has also been a guest scholar at the
Brookings Institution and an international affairs fellow of the Council on
Foreign Relations. He is currently a co-editor of the American Political
Science Review.
Robert Wolfe is professor in the School of Policy Studies, Queen's
University (Kingston, Ontario), where he is director of the Master of
Public Administration teaching program. He was a foreign service officer
for many years, serving abroad in Bangladesh and in the Canadian delegation
to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris.
Since joining Queen's in 1995, he has published widely on Canadian trade
policy and on the World Trade Organization. His most recent publications
are "Decision-Making and Transparency in the 'Medieval' WTO" (Journal of
International Economic Law), "See You in Geneva? Legal (Mis)Representations
of the Trading System" (European Journal of International Relations), and a
book entitled Process Matters: Sustainable Development and Domestic Trade
Transparency (co-edited with Mark Halle, 2007).
Can the World Be Governed? Possibilities for Effective Multilateralism
edited by Alan S. Alexandroff
Introduction Alan S. Alexandroff
1. Incentive Compatibility and Global Governance: Existential
Multilateralism, a Weakly Confederal World, and Hegemony Arthur A. Stein
2. A Grand Coalition and International Governance Richard Rosecrance
3. America and teh Reform of Global Institutions G. John Ikenberry
4. Two Challenges to Institutionalism Daniel W. Drezner
5. Insternational Institutions and Collective Authorization in the Use of
Force James D. Fearon
6. Multilateralism on Trial: From the 2005 UN Summit to Today's Reality
Ferry de Kerckhove
7. Facing the Global Problems of Development Paul Collier
8. Can the Trading System Be Governed? Institutional Implications of the
WTO's Suspended Animation Robert Wolfe
9. Slipping into Obscurity: Crisis and Institutional Reform at the IMF
Eric Helleiner and Bessma Momani
10. A Comment on the Effective Possibilities of Multilateralism Patricia
Goff
Conclusion Alan S. Alexandroff
Index
Contributors
Alan S. Alexandroff is research director for the Program on Conflict
Management and Negotiation at the Munk Centre for International Studies,
University of Toronto. He has taught international trade and politics,
conflict management, and dispute resolution at a number of North American
institutions, including Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario), McGill
University, and the University of California at Los Angeles, as well as at
the University of Toronto. His research and writing interests include
trade, investment, and trade policy in North America; the multilateral
trading system; Chinas accession to the World Trade Organization and its
integration into the global economy; and conflict management in the
international system, including the reform of global governance. Dr.
Alexandroff is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance
Innovation. His most recent publication is Trends in World Trade: Essays in
Honor of Sylvia Ostry (2007), for which he served as editor and
contributor.
Paul Collier is professor of economics and director of the Centre for the
Study of African Economies at Oxford University. From 1998 to 2003 he was
director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank. Professor
Collier is a specialist in the political, economic, and developmental
predicaments of poor countries. He holds a Distinction Award from Oxford
University, and in 1988 he was awarded the Edgar Graham Book Prize for the
co-written Labour and Poverty in Rural Tanzania. He is also the author of
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be
Done about It (2007), in which he discusses the pros and cons of
developmental aid to developing countries.
Ferry de Kerckhove is director general of the International Organizations
Bureau, part of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade, and the personal representative of the prime minister
of Canada for la Francophonie, the international organization of
French-speaking countries. He is responsible for the programs and
specialized agencies of the UN covered by Canada's missions in New York,
Geneva, Paris, and Rome, and for relations between Canada, the
Commonwealth, and la Francophonie. Born in Belgium, Mr. de Kerckhove has a
B.Soc. Sc. (Honours) in economics and an M.A. in political science from the
University of Ottawa and pursued Ph.D. studies at Université Laval in
Quebec City. In 1973 he entered the Canadian foreign service, where he has
had a distinguished career, having held posts as minister and deputy head
of mission in Moscow, high commissioner to Pakistan, and ambassador to both
Indonesia and East Timor. In September 2003, he joined the School of
Political Studies at the University of Ottawa as diplomat in residence. He
has published several papers on international relations and Islamic
fundamentalism in specialized journals.
Daniel W. Drezner is associate professor of international politics at the
Fletcher School, Tufts University. He received his B.A. from Williams
College and his Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. He
previously taught at the University of Chicago and the University of
Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of All Politics Is Global (2007),
U.S. Trade Policy (2006), and The Sanctions Paradox (1999). Professor
Drezner has published articles in numerous scholarly journals as well as in
the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs. He has
received fellowships from the German Marshall Fund of the United States,
the Council on Foreign Relations, and Harvard University, and has held
positions with the Civic Education Project, the RAND Corporation, and the
US Treasury Department. He keeps a daily weblog at danieldrezner.com.
James D. Fearon is Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor in the School of
Humanities and Sciences and professor of political science at Stanford
University. His research has focused on democracy and international
disputes, explanations for interstate wars, and the causes of civil and
especially ethnic violence. Representative publications include
"Neotrusteeship and the Problem of Weak States" (International Security,
Spring 2004), "Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War" (American Political
Science Review, February 2003), and "Iraq's Civil War" (Foreign Affairs,
March/April 2007). He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of the
Arts and Sciences in 2002.
Patricia M. Goff is associate professor of political science at Wilfrid
Laurier University and a senior fellow at the Centre for International
Governance Innovation. Her fields of expertise include international
relations and international political economy. She is co-editor (with Kevin
Dunn) of Identity and Global Politics: Empirical and Theoretical
Elaborations (2004) and (with Paul Heinbecker) Irrelevant or Indispensable?
The United Nations in the 21st Century (2005), and the author of Limits to
Liberalization: Local Culture in a Global Marketplace (2007). Dr. Goff
holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University, a Diplôme
études approfondies in comparative politics from the University of Paris,
an M.A. in French literature from McMaster University, and a B.A. (Honours)
from the University of Western Ontario. She is associate editor of Behind
the Headlines, a publication of the Canadian Institute of International
Affairs, and executive director of the Academic Council on the United
Nations System.
Eric Helleiner is CIGI (Centre for International Governance Innovation)
Chair in International Governance and professor in the Department of
Political Science, University of Waterloo. He is also director of the M.A.
program at Waterloo and of the Ph.D. program in global governance at both
Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. His research focuses on
North--South international financial relations. He is currently a Trudeau
Foundation fellow and co-editor of the book series Cornell Studies in
Money. He is the author of States and the Reemergence of Global Finance
(1994), The Making of National Money (2003), and Towards North American
Monetary Union? (2006), for which he received the Donner Prize for the best
book on Canadian public policy. He is also co-editor of Nation-States and
Money (1999) and Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World (2005), and
has received the Marvin Gelber Essay Prize in International Relations from
the Canadian Institute for International Affairs.
G. John Ikenberry is Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and
International Affairs at Princeton University. He is author of After
Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order
after Major War (2001), which won the 2002 Schroeder-Jervis Award presented
by the American Political Science Association for the best book in
international history and politics. He is currently writing a sequel to
this book, Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of
the American System. A collection of his essays, Liberal Order and Imperial
Ambition: American Power and International Order, was published in 2006 by
Polity Press. Among his many activities, Professor Ikenberry served as a
member of an advisory group at the US State Department in 2003-04. He has
lectured throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is also the
reviewer of books on political and legal affairs for Foreign Affairs.
Bessma Momani is an assistant professor in the Departments of Political
Science and History at the University of Waterloo and a senior fellow at
the Centre for International Governance and Innovation. She specializes in
the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Middle East economic
liberalization. Co-author of the textbook Twentieth-Century World History,
she has published a monograph entitled IMF-Egyptian Debt Negotiations. Dr.
Momani has also published articles about the IMF in Review of International
Political Economy, Asian Affairs, Global Society, Journal of International
Relations and Development, New Political Economy, Canadian Journal of
Political Science, and Review of International Organizations. On economic
liberalization in the Middle East, she has published in Middle East Review
of International Affairs, World Economy, and World Economics.
Richard Rosecrance is adjunct professor in public policy at Harvard
University, research professor of political science at the University of
California, and senior fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs. He was formerly director of the Burkle Center for
International Relations at UCLA. He has written widely on international
topics. Among his publications are The Rise of the Trading State (1986),
America's Economic Resurgence (1990), The Domestic Bases of Grand Strategy
(co-editor, 1993), The Rise of the Virtual State (1999), The Costs of
Conflict (co-editor, 1999), The New Great Power Coalition (editor, 2001),
and No More States? Globalization, Self-Determination, and Terrorism
(co-editor, 2006). His next book is entitled Mergers among Nations.
Professor Rosecrance served on the Policy Planning Council of the US State
Department and has received Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie, and
many other fellowships. He has held regular university posts at Cornell
University and the University of California at Berkeley and visiting
positions at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Kings
College (London), London School of Economics, European University Institute
(Florence), and Australian National University.
Arthur A. Stein is professor of political science, University of California
at Los Angeles. He has an A.B. from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. from
Yale University. He has written widely on international economic and
strategic affairs and is the author of The Nation at War (1980) and Why
Nations Cooperate (1991), and co-editor of The Domestic Bases of Grand
Strategy (1993) and No More States? Globalization, National
Self-Determination, and Terrorism (2006). He has served on the Policy
Planning Staff of the US State Department and consulted for US defense and
intelligence agencies. Professor Stein has also been a guest scholar at the
Brookings Institution and an international affairs fellow of the Council on
Foreign Relations. He is currently a co-editor of the American Political
Science Review.
Robert Wolfe is professor in the School of Policy Studies, Queen's
University (Kingston, Ontario), where he is director of the Master of
Public Administration teaching program. He was a foreign service officer
for many years, serving abroad in Bangladesh and in the Canadian delegation
to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris.
Since joining Queen's in 1995, he has published widely on Canadian trade
policy and on the World Trade Organization. His most recent publications
are "Decision-Making and Transparency in the 'Medieval' WTO" (Journal of
International Economic Law), "See You in Geneva? Legal (Mis)Representations
of the Trading System" (European Journal of International Relations), and a
book entitled Process Matters: Sustainable Development and Domestic Trade
Transparency (co-edited with Mark Halle, 2007).