US Hegemony and International Organizations: The United States and Multilateral Institutions

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9780199261437

Publication Date:

27 Feb 2003

Language:

English

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Pages:

312 pages

Format:

Paperback

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The relationship between a powerful US and some of the central multilateral organizations in global society is an essential feature of contemporary international relations. This text brings together a range of scholars to examine this crucial phenomenon. Its aims are two-fold: to describe and explain US behaviour in and towards a wide range of significant global and regional institutions; and secondly, to examine the impact of US behaviour on the capacity of each organization to meet its own objectives. The study explores US behaviour and its consequences for organizations based at the regional as well as the global levels, for those located in different regions of the world, and for such issue areas as security, economics, and the environment. Although focusing on the period since the 1990s, each chapter places its findings in a broader historical context.

Acknowledgements ; 1. Introduction ; PERSPECTIVES ON THE US AND MIOS ; 2. American exceptionalism and international organization: Lessons from the 1990s ; 3. State power and the institutional bargain: America's ambivalent economic and security multilateralism ; THE US AND GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONS ; 4. US-UN relations through the prism of the UN Security Council in the post-Cold War era ; 5. The United States and the international financial institutions: power and influence within the World Bank and the IMF ; 6. The United States and the GATT/WTO system ; 7. Looking beyond the 'K-word': Embedded multilateralism in US foreign environmental policy ; THE US AND REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ; 8. Making Africa safer for capitalism: US policy and multilateralism in Africa ; 9. US approaches to multilateral security and economic organizations in the Asia-Pacific ; 10. Trouble in Pax Atlantica? The United States, Europe and the future of multilateralism ; 11. Power multiplied or power restrained? The US and multilateral institutions in the Americas ; 12. Conclusion - Instrumental Multilateralism in US Foreign Policy ; Select bibliography

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US Hegemony and International Organizations: The United States and Multilateral Institutions

Paperback by Foot, Rosemary (, St Antony's College, Oxford University); MacFarlane, S. Neil (, St Anne's College, Oxford University); Mastanduno, Michael (, Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College)

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