The Concertation Impulse in World Politics : Contestation over Fundamental Institutions and the Constrictions of Institutionalist International Relations

Cooper, Andrew F.

Oxford University Press（2023/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 400 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780198897507
• DDC分類 341.2

Full Description

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 combines a stigmatized legacy with the ability to reproduce in an array of associational formats.

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.

Contents

1: Unravelling the centrality of the contest over international institutions
2: Concertation as a foundational/fundamental institution
3: Crises as potential animators of institutional transformation
4: Raising the stakes of the institutional contest over the normative dimension
5: Hierarchical privileges of institutional convenience
6: Between aspirations and anxiety: The ambivalent hold of formal institutions by non-incumbents from the Global South
7: Inserting designers into institutional design: Institutional entrepreneurship and the evolution of state-based plurilateralism
8: Recalibrated but still contested: The G20 as a twenty-first century institutional concert format
9: The challenge of personalist-populist institutional disruption at the core of the system
10: Aspirations of a BRICS solidarity concert/hanging together as a pluralist club
Conclusions