Effective Multilateralism Through the Looking Glass of East Asia

Western liberal order is in a protracted process of transition. There is no new hegemon willing or able to replace the United States and to push for a redesign of the global governance architecture from scratch. Emerging powers engage in global cooperation in their own way and on their own terms. While there seems to be a growing demand for effective global cooperation, there are no longer universally applicable concepts to analyze it nor a common language with which to describe it. Effective Multilateralism makes the case for a new approach in order to understand and explain global cooperation and collective action juxtaposing the European concept of effective multilateralism with the empirical reality of regional cooperation in East Asia. The careful examination of East Asian cases leads to a better understanding of the scope conditions of analytical frameworks of multilateralism.

Jochen Prantl is Associate Professor in International Relations, Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, Australian National University. Previously he held positions in the Department of Politics and International Relations, and Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. In 2007, Dr Prantl was the inaugural recipient of the Zvi Meitar/Vice-Chancellor Oxford University Research Prize in the Social Sciences.

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Introduction: International Cooperation Under Order Transition; Jochen Prantl
PART I: EXPLAINING COOPERATION - DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
1. Rethinking Global Order and Regional Cooperation
2. Effective Multilateralism and Global Order; Andrew Hurrell
3. The Regionalization of Security: A Comparative Analysis; Louise Fawcett
PART II: EFFECTIVE MULTILATERALISMS
4. China's Approach to Multilateralism in East Asia; Su Changhe
5. Effective Multilateralism - A U.S. Perspective; Bruce Jentleson
6. Japan and Regional Multilateralism in Asia: The Trilateral Strategic Dialogue as a New Institutional Choice; Kuniko Ashizawa
PART III: WAR MEMORIES AND REGIONAL COOPERATION
7. Thinking in Time: War Memories, Post-war Reconciliation and Regional Co-operation in Europe and Asia; Hartmut Mayer
8. Effective Multilateralism and Sino-Japanese Reconciliation; Shogo Suzuki
PART IV: PATHWAYS TO COOPERATION IN EAST ASIA
9. Hierarchy and Great Power Cooperation in the East Asian Security Order; Evelyn Goh
10. Formalizing Informal Cooperation?; Robert Ayson
PART V: CASE STUDIES
11. Selective or Effective Multilateralism? The Bush Administration's Proliferation Security Initiative and China's Response; Rosemary Foot
12. The Mismanagement of Global Imbalances: Why Did Multilateralism Fail?; Andrew Walter
13. Responding to Climate Change in the Region: New Partnerships and Chinese Leadership; Katherine Morton
14. Global Promulgation – Regional Implementation? The Responsibility to Protect in East Asia; Jochen Prantl and Ryoko Nakano
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