Synopses & Reviews
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.
About the Author
Michael G. Schechter is Professor of International Relations at James Madison College of Michigan State University.
Table of Contents
Preface * Notes on the Contributors * List of Acronyms and Abbreviations * Editors Introduction--M. Schechter *
Part I: The Evolving Global Structure And The United Nations System * International Institutions: Obstacles, Agents or Conduits of Global Structural Change?--M. Schechter * United Nations Reform: A Strategy of Avoidance--M. Smouts * The United Nations and the Crossroads of Reform--A. Morales * Northern Perspectives for Peace and Security Functions of the United Nations--Tekeo Uchida *
Part II: Evolving Global Structures And Institutional Innovation * Structural Changes in Multilateralism: The G-7 Nexus and the Global Crisis--S. Gill * Implications of the Evolving Global Structure for the UN System: a View from the South--J. Zoninsein * Part III: Post-Hegemonic Multilateralism And Beyond * Expanding the Limits of Imagination: Human Rights from a Participatory Approach to New Multilateralism--A. An-Naim * Indigenous People and Developments in International Law: Toward Change through Multilateralism and the Modern Human Rights frame AIDS and Multilateral Governance--P. Soderhölm * Gender, Social Movements, and Multilateralism: A Case Study of Womens Organizing in Russia--E. Ershova, L. Racioppi and K. OSullivan See * Index