State, Globalization And Multilateralism: The Challenges Of Institutionalizing Regionalism (united Nations University Series On Regionalism)

This volume presents a reconsideration of the concepts of State and political power within the evolving multilateral network of cooperation and conflict. By means of an innovating research strategy, it explains state resilience within global governance while deepening the obsolescence of the traditional sovereign state concepts, including by emerging powers. Rather than considering the EU as an isolated case study, the book considers the EU as both a reference and a proactive player, which fosters a new research agenda both for comparative studies and political theory. Lastly, in view of the currently emergent, unprecedented and asymmetrical, ‘multi-polar’ world, it considers the need for a new research agenda on multilateralism. This volume presents a reconsideration of the concepts of State and political power within the evolving multilateral network of cooperation and conflict. By means of an innovating research strategy, it explains state resilience within global and regional governance while deepening the transformation of the traditional sovereign state concepts, including by emerging powers. Rather than considering the EU as an isolated case study, the book considers the EU as both a reference and a proactive player, which fosters a new research agenda both for comparative studies on regional cooperation and political theory. Lastly, in view of the currently emergent, unprecedented and asymmetrical, 'multi-polar' world, and of several forms of continent and instrumental multilateral cooperation, it considers the need for putting regionalism and democratic legitimacy at the very core of a normative and institutionalist research agenda for a ''new multilateralism'' Front Matter....Pages i-xv Introduction....Pages 1-3 Front Matter....Pages 5-5 State and Multilateralism: History and Perspectives....Pages 7-44 The Changing World Order: From the Opening of the Berlin Wall to the Financial Crash....Pages 45-60 Economic Multilateralism: A Search for Legitimacy and Coherence in the Early Twenty-first Century....Pages 61-78 International Responsibility, Multilateralism, and China’s Foreign Policy....Pages 79-95 Front Matter....Pages 97-97 The State and Political Economic Change: Beyond Rational Choice and Historical Institutionalism to Discursive Institutionalism....Pages 99-118 Globalization, Regionalization and Stateness....Pages 119-136 The Rise of Executive Sovereignty in the Era of Globalization....Pages 137-157 Conclusions: State and New Multilateralism Facing an Unprecedented Multipolar World....Pages 159-182 Back Matter....Pages 183-187 Annotation This volume presents a reconsideration of the concepts of state and political power within the evolving multilateral network of cooperation and conflict. By means of an innovating research strategy, it explains state resilience within global governance while deepening the obsolescence of the traditional sovereign state concepts