Présentation de l’éditeur
This book explores the challenges that multilateralism faces today and questions the idea of a ‘crisis’ of multilateral cooperation and international organizations. It accounts for the pressures on and power shifts in multilateralism in recent years - such as the war in Syria, the Covid-19 pandemic, challenges for NATO, the erosion of multilateral norms, the transition from Trump to Biden, the rise of China, the post-Brexit European Union, and the mobilization of countries from the South. The authors illustrate the resilience of multilateralism and lessons learned from the WTO, UN Women, International Organizations’ Secretariats and global environmental governance. Written in part by members of the Research Group on Multilateral Action (GRAM), this volume argues that ‘crisis’ should not be considered a pathology but the ‘matrix’ of multilateralism, which is more resilient than commonly thought. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of International Relations, global governance, and international organizations.
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Introduction: Crisis as the Matrix of Multilateralism
Auriane Guilbaud, Franck Petiteville, Frédéric Ramel
Multilateralism Under Pressure
Polarization and Plasticity at the United Nations Over the War in Syria
Franck Petiteville, Manon-Nour Tannous, Simon Tordjman
A Stress-Test for Global Health Multilateralism: The Covid-19 Pandemic as Revealer and Catalyst of Cooperation Challenges
Auriane Guilbaud
Unpacking the “Mess” of Multilateral Crisis Management: NATO’s Defense Posture from Afghanistan to Ukraine
Julien Pomarède
The Enduring Crisis: Reclaiming the Normative Foundations of Multilateralism
Thierry Balzacq, Frédéric Ramel
Power Shifts in Multilateralism
The United States from Trump to Biden: A Fragile Return to Multilateralism
Frédéric Charillon
China: Supporter or Contender of Multilateralism?
Camille M. Brugier
The Post-brexit European Union and Multilateralism: Evolution and Challenges in the European Perception of Power
Delphine Deschaux-Dutard
Mobilizing the South: Pluralizing and Complexifying Multilateralism
Delphine Allès, Elodie Brun
New Dynamics
Beyond the Failure of the WTO: Resilience of Trade Multilateralism
Mehdi Abbas, Erick Duchesne
Can UN Reform Be Successful? The Case of UN Women
Marie Saiget, Simon Tordjman
Secretariats of Intergovernmental Organizations and Multilateralism Under Pressure
Bob Reinalda
Regime Complexes as a Model of Multilateral Governance: The Case of the Environment
Amandine Orsini
