Beyond Great Powers: Middle Power Paths to Resilient Multilateralism
Asian Journal of Peacebuilding
; 10(1):131-157, 2022.
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in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-1912434
ABSTRACT
Set amidst growing global challenges and great power politics, this article asks how middle powers might best promote global collective action. Adopting a historical approach, it explores four case studies on middle power multilateralism in (1) post-1974 UN New International Economic Order;(2) post-1989 Bretton Woods institutions;(3) post-1992 European Union expansion;and (4) post-2003 UN SouthSouth cooperation. These inform a policy framework and an ensuing alternative termed "resilient multilateralism." Adopting a foreign policy standpoint, this alternative entails principles on context specificity, complementarity, consensus building, and non-confrontation. By opening space for global action, it offers a timely approach to countering future shocks and coordination failures-whether wrought through nature or through hands of our own.
Humanities: Comprehensive Works; Cold War; Economic crisis; Geopolitics; International economics; Power; Politics; Collective action; Case studies; 21st century; International finance; Liberalism; Resilience; Globalization; International cooperation; Social sciences; Foreign policy; COVID-19; Journals; Cooperation; International relations; Conflict; Coordination; Multilateralism; Canada; South Korea; Turkey; United Kingdom--UK; Asia; United States--US; China; Russia
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English
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Asian Journal of Peacebuilding
Year:
2022
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