Effective Multilateralism - (St Antony's) by Jochen Prantl (Paperback)

About the Book

"Western liberal order is in a protracted process of transition. There is no new hegemon willing or able to replace the United States and to push for a redesign of the global governance architecture from scratch. Emerging powers engage in global cooperation in their own way and on their own terms. While there seems to be a growing demand for effective global cooperation, there are no longer universally applicable concepts to analyze it nor a common language with which to describe it. Effective Multilateralism makes the case for a new approach in order to understand and explain global cooperation and collective action juxtaposing the European concept of effective multilateralism with the empirical reality of regional cooperation in East Asia. The careful examination of East Asian cases leads to a better understanding of the scope conditions of analytical frameworks of multilateralism"--

Book Synopsis

Existing theories of cooperation assume a stable geo-political order, led by countries with a shared conception of the modalities of cooperation. These assumptions are no longer justified. Effective Multilateralism makes the case for a new approach to explaining international cooperation through the lens of East Asian.

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About the Author

Kuniko Ashizawa, Johns Hopkins University, USA Robert Ayson, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Louise Fawcett, University of Oxford, UK Rosemary Foot, University of Oxford, UK Evelyn Goh, Australian National University Andrew Hurrell, University of Oxford, UK Bruce Jentleson, Duke University, UK Hartmut Mayer, St. Peter's College, University of Oxford, UK Katherine Morton, Australian National University Ryoko Nakano, National University of Singapore Su Changhe, Fudan University, Shanghai Shogo Suzuki, University of Manchester, UK Andrew Walter, University of Melbourne, Australia