Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Towards a Common Language: Critically Exploring Key Concepts

1. Globalisation: Trends, Limits, and Controversies

2. The Three Historical epochs of Multilateralism

3. Which Multipolarity? Power and World Order

4. Peculiarities of the European Union’s External Action

Part II: The State of Art: Disciplinary Approaches to Global Governance

5. Comparative Institutionalisms

6. Normative Approaches to Global Justice 7. International Political Economy 8. Legal Studies and Global Governance 9. Comparative Regionalist Studies

Part III: Efficiency and Legitimacy of the Global Multilateral System: The Institutional Set

10. Troubles with the UN

11. The Pillars of the International Trading System 12. The IMF and the Challenge of Global Monetary Governance 13. Global Environmental Governance

Part IV: Issues at Stake

14. The Complex Social Side of Globalisation

15. New Multilateralisms for Regional Development: Africa Post-2015

16. Cultural Conflicts, Global Governance, and International Institutions

17. Civil Society, Global Governance, and the Quest for Legitimacy

18. The Responsibility to Protect

19. Regional Security Communities

20. Interregional Relations

21. Multilateral Institutions/Regimes and the Dissemination of WMD

22. Multilateralism and Conflict Management: Assessing Peace Operations

Appendix: Regional, Interregional and Global Arrangements and Multilateral Organisations

About the Author

Mario Telo is Jean Monnet professor of International Relations at Universite Libre de Bruxelles and teaches EU institutions at LUISS, Rome. Andrew Gamble, Mario Telo, Min-hyung Kim, James Caporaso, Chen Zhimin, Pan Zhongqi, Rene Schwok, Vivien A. Schmidt, Sebastiano Maffetone, Matthew Watson, Nicolas Levrat, Luk van Langenhove, Leonie Maes, Paul Taylor, Steven Woolcock, Richard Higgott, Jessica Hodder, Jean-Frederic Morin, Chun Ding, Timothy M. Shaw, Hany Besada, Thomas Meyer, Raffaele Marchetti, Nico Schrijver, Hideotoshi Nakamura, Stephan Sberro, Jane Boulden, Fulvio Attina, Sebastian Santander.

Reviews

'This may be the most multi-dimensional textbook in international politics ever published. Its multiple authors are multi-cultural and even multi-continental; its approach is multi-disciplinary and multi-layered; its topics are multi-lateralism and multi-polarism; its units of analysis are multi-regional and multi-functional; its observations are multi-faceted and multi-cautious. If this were not enough, they are all brought to bear on the multi-ambiguous process of globalization! Nevertheless, it does manage to present a coherent and challenging message to the advanced student of political science - whether he or she is interested in the national, regional of global level of aggregation. This owes a great deal to the exceptional quality of its contributors and the innovative program that brought them together.' Philippe C. Schmitter, European University Institute, Italy 'Mario Telo and his contributors have done a superb job of conceptualizing, analysing and synthesizing the whole complex called globalization studies. Using the European Union as a multipolar and multilevel entity which the tide of globalization permeates relentlessly, they present a much-needed user-friendly textbook.' Takashi Inoguchi, University of Niigata Prefecture, Japan