Mario Telo (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and LUISS-Guido

Multilateralism Past, Present and Future

A European Perspective

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an important chronological perspective on the evolution of multilateralism within Europe and beyond.

Produktdetails

• Globalisation, Europe, and Multilateralism
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9781032245447
• ISBN-10: 1032245441
• Artikelnr.: 67514165

Autorenporträt

Mario Telò is Jean Monnet Chair of International Relations at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and at LUISS, Rome, and a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Brussels.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1. The historical origins and transformation of
multilateralism Introduction: The ambivalence of state sovereignty Chapter
1: From the Renaissance to the Westphalian European system (1)The first
multipolar and multilateral treaty: the Treaty of Lodi (1454) (2) The
genealogy of and developments in sovereignty and diplomacy within the
multipolar system: European political thinking (3) The European case from a
comparative perspective (4) The Treaty of Westphalia (5) Institutionalising
multilateral cooperation (6) The European Concert (1814-1914): Strengths
and limitations (7) Internationalism from below: The participation of
multiple and various civil society stakeholders (8) Multilateral
conferences and regimes, between functionalism and ambitions of hegemony:
The first wave of civilian cooperation arrangements (9) The global
dimension of Eurocentric multilateralism and its collapse (10) Innovating
International Relations theory beyond realism Chapter 2: The era of US-led
multilateralism (1) Building cultural leadership: W. Wilson and the League
of Nations (2) The League of Nations: Structure and policies (3) The USA's
isolationism and the decline of the League of Nations (4) Three lessons
from the failure of the League of Nations: Coping with the challenges of
economic development and decolonisation (5) Competing with the communist
international challenge (6) Coping with fascist and authoritarian
combinations of nationalism and regionalism (7) US hegemony and F.D.
Roosevelt's universal multilateralism: The Bretton Woods and United Nations
systems (8) The controversy about regional versus global organisation (9)
The impact of the Cold War on multilateral cooperation (10) The parabola of
US hegemony. From the new frontier to the instrumentalist neoliberal use of
international organisations. (11) Conclusion. What happens after the era of
US hegemony? Ambiguities surrounding Europe's role. Chapter 3: Theoretical
Challenges (1) The diverse process in state transformation (2) US post
realist research and multilateralism (3) The emergence of various Chinese
International Relations theories (4) Controversies on the theory of
hegemony (5) Innovations in European critical thinking Conclusions Part 2:
Regionalism and interregionalism as forms of multilateralism. Between
hegemony, cooperation and fragmentation Introduction: The emergence of and
developments in regional and interregional cooperation Chapter 4:
Contribution to a historical interpretation: Three types of regionalism in
the history of the twentieth century (1) Authoritarian and hierarchical
regionalism in the 1930s and 1940s. Regionalism at the crossroads between
free trade, protectionism and ideational drivers. (2) Regionalism during
the time of US hegemony. (3) The new regionalist era. (4) Conclusion: Is a
fourth framework emerging for regionalism in the 21st century? Chapter 5:
Introduction to a synchronic analysis of regional cooperation: The evolving
external and internal variables Chapter 6: Synchronic analysis of regional
cooperation: the Americas (1) An unprecedented crisis in regional
cooperation: Structural and conjunctural dimensions (2) Diverging
ideational roots of hemispheric and South American regionalism (3) The
golden age of Latin American regional organisation (4) NAFTA as a workshop
for US foreign trade policy, between bilateralism, regionalism and
interregional globalism: The failure of FTAA and the shift towards CUSMA
transactional regionalism (5) Conclusion: The uncertain future of regional
American cooperation Chapter 7: Regional cooperation in Africa (1) Origins
and developments of African regionalism (2) African regionalism from the
OAU to the AU: A long term view (3) Between regional economic cooperation,
leadership and securitisation: The examples of SADC, ECOWAS and NEPAD (4)
Conclusions: Alternative regionalism and universalisation of regional law
Chapter 8: Regional cooperation in Asia (1) Introduction (2) The 'ASEAN
way' distinctive path in the Asia-Pacific area (3) Comparing the dynamics
of ASEAN with other regional organisations: The counterexample of SAARC (4)
The historical consolidation of ASEAN and its international relevance (5) A
challenged regional architecture of concentric circles (6) Conclusion
Chapter 9: Authoritarian regionalism (1) The Eurasian Economic Community
and the EEU (2) The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) (3) The Gulf
Cooperation Council (GCC) (4) The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of
Our America (ALBA) (5) Conclusion Chapter 10: Interregional relations (1)
Introduction. Conceptualising interregionalism (2) EU interregionalism (3)
EU interregionalism: Africa (4) EU interregionalism: The Mediterranean (5)
The EU's interregional relations with North America (6) EU
interregionalism: East Asia (7) EU interregionalism: Latin America (Central
and South America) (8) US-led interregionalism (9) China's interregional
relations Conclusions Part 3: Multilateralism at stake from the 20th to the
21st century and the EU perspective. Introduction: The war in Ukraine and
the global scenarios Chapter 11: Multilayered governance is not just a
descriptive concept. (1) Three reasons for an enhanced regional role in
global governance (2) Changing global governance without treaty revision
Chapter 12: Europe as a revived neo-multilateral reference? Background,
crises and prospects for evolution (1) The Community method and the acquis
communautaire (2) New challenges and the populist wave (3) 2019-2022: EU
resilience and potential historical changes (4) A multidimensional
defensive and offensive agenda (5) The EU as a fledgling form of
multilateralist civilian and geopolitical power: defence policy and global
actorness (6) Enhancing the EU's capacity to act via differentiated
integration Chapter 13: A less contingent legitimacy with regard to the
multilateral system (1) From output to input legitimacy? (2) Reforming
policy making and multilateral institutions via enhanced legitimacy (3)
Gender equality as a way to improve the quality of legitimacy Chapter 14:
The open controversies about more binding forms of governance as features
of a new form of multilateralism (1) The challenge of development (2) Peace
and security: UN Charter Chapter VII (a) The nuclear challenge beyond the
Leviathan (b) The non-proliferation regime (3) Humanitarian intervention
and the responsibility to protect (4) The ups and downs of the climate
change negotiations (5) The Bretton Woods institutions and their evolution
(6) The WTO and trade governance (7) Digital governance: An increasingly
central issue (8) The WHO and the fight against pandemics Conclusions:
Alternative scenarios: International anarchy or a stronger form of
multilateralism. The role of diffuse reciprocity and intercultural
dialogue. Conclusions: Between realism and cosmopolitanism: The EU
perspective. (1) Collective leadership beyond the Westphalian paradigm (2)
Republican and transnational legitimacy (3) Multilateralism A and B (4) The
EU as an upgrading civilian and geopolitical power for a new form of
multilateralism Bibliography Index