Contested world orders : rising powers, non-governmental organizations, and the politics of authority beyond the nation-state / edited by Matthew D. Stephen, Michael Zürn.

This volume provides a novel institutionalist theoretical approach to the rise of new powers and NGOs in relation to international institutions. It reveals the major conflicts that characterise some key contemporary international institutions, such as the UN Security Council, the World Trade Organiz...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Stephen, Matthew D. (Editor)
Zürn, Michael, 1959- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
International organization.
International cooperation.
International relations.
Power (Social sciences)
89.72 international organizations.
Physical Description:viii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Rising powers, NGOs, and demands for new world orders: an introduction / Matthew D. Stephen and Michael Zürn
  • Part I. World economic orders
  • Contestation overshoot: rising powers, NGOs, and the failure of the WTO Doha round / Matthew D. Stephen
  • The contestation of the IMF / ALesandros Tokhi
  • Exclusive club under stress: the G7 between rising powers and non-state actors after the Cold War / Dirk Peters
  • Part II. World security orders
  • The devil is in the detail: the positions of the BRICs countries towards UN security council reform and the responsibility to protect / Anja Jetschke and Pascal Abb
  • The contestation of the nuclear non-proliferation regime / Harald Müller and Alexandros Tokhi
  • Part III. Human rights and environment
  • Negotiating the UN human rights council: rising powers, established powers, and NGOs / Martin Binder and Sophie Eisentraut
  • Contestation in the UNFCCC: the case of climate finance / Miriam Prys-Hansen, Kristina Hahn, Malte Lellman, and Milan Röseler
  • Part IV. Cross-cutting cases
  • Transnational private authority and its contestation / Melanie Coni-Zimmer, Annegret Flohr, and Klaus Dieter Wolf
  • Cleavages in world politics: analysing rising power voting behaviour in the UN general assembly / Martin Binder and Autumn Lockwood Payton
  • Conclusion: contested world orders - continuity or change? / Michael Zürn, Klaus Dieter Wolf, and Matthew D. Stephen.