This book unravels the centrality of contestation over
international institutions under the shadow of crisis. Breaking
with the widely accepted image in the mainstream, US-centric
literature of an advance of global governance supported by pillars
of institutionalized formality, Andrew Cooper points to the
retention of a habitual impulse towards concertation related to
informal institutionalism. Rather than endorsing the view that
world politics is moving inexorably towards a multilateral,
rules-based order, he places the onus on the resilience of a
hierarchical self-selected concert model that subordinates
normative attraction for efficiency-driven instrumentality. Relying
for conceptual guidance on the recovery of a valuable component in
the intellectual contribution of Hedley Bull, a compelling case is
made that concertation represents a fundamental institution as a
peer competitor to multilateralism. In effect, the debate over
institutional design is recast away from an emphasis on utilitarian
maximization towards a wider set of cardinal - and highly contested
- questions: the nature of rules at the global level, the salience
of institutional clubs, and the meaning and impact of (in)equality
and cooperation/coordination among states across the incumbent
West/non-incumbent Global South divide.
General
| Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
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| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
December 2023 |
| Authors: |
Andrew F. Cooper
(University Research Chair, Department of Political Science, and Professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs)
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| Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
384 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-889750-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-19-889750-2 |
| Barcode: |
9780198897507 |
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