Future Multilateralism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Michael G. Schechter

      Pages 1-11

3. Security Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. From Civil War to Civil Peace: Multi-Track Solutions to Armed Conflict

      • Kumar Rupesinghe

      Pages 15-42

   3. Multilateral Security: Common, Cooperative or Collective?

      • Raimo Väyrynen

      Pages 43-70

4. Economy and Ecology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. Back to Heterodox Questions: Progress with Regress Through Competition

      • Javier Iguiñiz-Echeverria

      Pages 73-100

   3. A Signal Failure: Ecology and Economy After the Earth Summit

      • Peter Harries-Jones, Abraham Rotstein, Peter Timmerman

      Pages 101-135

   4. Environmental Rights, Multilateralism, Morality and the Ecology

      • Tariq Osman Hyder

      Pages 136-150

5. Human Rights and Participation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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   2. The Quest for Human Rights in an Era of Globalization

      • Richard Falk

      Pages 153-178

   3. Globalization, Multilateralism and the Shrinking Democratic Space

      • Claude Ake

      Pages 179-195

   4. High-speed Growth, Crisis and Opportunity in East Asia

      • Walden Bello

      Pages 196-252

6. Representation and Accountability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 253-253

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   2. Engineering Space in Global Governance: the Emergence of Civil Society in Evolving ‘New’ Multilateralism

      • W. Andy Knight

      Pages 255-291

   3. Multilateralism from Below: a Prerequisite for Global Governance

      • Marie-Claude Smouts

      Pages 292-311

7. Back Matter

   Pages 312-319

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The aim of this volume is to discuss the kinds of multilateralism that would be required to pursue some of the alternative projects of society, namely those which agree with some of the key normative commitments of the MUNS programme: non-violent means for dealing with conflict; social equity; protection of the biosphere; diffusion of power among social groups and societies. The strategies identified here are both 'top-down', ie: relying on conventional international institutions and 'bottom-up', ie: involving a new multilateralism grounded in civil society.

• competition
• conflict
• economy
• global governance
• globalization
• Governance
• human rights
• Institution
• participation

• James Madison College, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

  Michael G. Schechter

CLAUDE AKE At the time of his death in November 1996, a Visiting Professor of Political Science, Yale University WALDEN BELLO Co-director of Focus on the Global South at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok RICHARD A. FALK Professor of International Law and Practice at Princeton University PETER HARRIES-JONES Professor of Anthropology at York University in Toronto TARIQ OSMAN HYDER Pakistan's Ambassador to Ashgabat in Turkmenistan JAVIER M. IGUIÑIZ-ECHIVERRIA Professor of Economics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru W. ANY KNIGHT Teaches International Relations at Bishop's University ABRAHAM ROTSTEIN Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of Toronto KUMAR RUPESINGHE Secretary General of International Alert, an international non-governmental organization PETER TIMMERMAN Research Associate of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IES), University of Toronto RAIMO VÄYRYNEN Professor of Government and International Studies

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