International Cooperation: The Extents and Limits of Multilateralism

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Figures......Page 11
Tables......Page 13
Contributors......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 17
1 Introduction: return to the theories of cooperation......Page 19
Conflicts in meaning......Page 20
Conflict and cooperation......Page 21
Nature and cooperation......Page 22
Schools and cooperation......Page 24
New understandings of cooperation......Page 26
Part 1 Multilateral meanings of cooperation......Page 31
2 Debating cooperation in Europe from Grotius to Adam Smith......Page 33
Constructing the modern law of nations: Grotius and his successors......Page 36
Rethinking international order in eighteenth-century Europe: Montesquieu and Adam Smith......Page 42
3 The two sides of multilateral cooperation......Page 58
Cooperation and competition......Page 59
The content and purpose of multilateralism for the small and the large state......Page 60
Isolationism......Page 61
Situating multilateralism in strategic and historical space......Page 63
Dual fallacies of multilateralism and unilateralism......Page 67
The “anchoring” of multilateralism......Page 69
“Inside” and “outside” strategies of multilateral actors......Page 71
Origins of multilateral success: the NAFTA example......Page 73
In conclusion......Page 76
4 Deconstructing multilateral cooperation......Page 78
Formal (“top-down”) multilateralism......Page 80
Clubs versus universality......Page 82
The awakening of the global South......Page 83
Informal (“bottom-up”) multilateralism......Page 85
Instrumental (utilitarian) multilateralism......Page 89
Amour propre multilateralism......Page 91
Conclusion......Page 94
5 Negotiated cooperation and its alternatives......Page 96
Why multilateral cooperation?......Page 97
How negotiate?......Page 99
Structure and process of multilateral negotiation......Page 100
Decision rules......Page 101
Outcomes......Page 102
How evaluate?......Page 103
Remedies and trade-offs......Page 105
Conclusions......Page 107
Part 2 Multiple strategies of cooperation......Page 111
6 Synthesizing rationalist and constructivist perspectives on negotiated cooperation......Page 113
Game theory as a metaphor for negotiations......Page 116
Beyond game theory: constructivist cooperation......Page 124
7 The shadow of the past over conflict and cooperation......Page 129
Adaptation and Axelrod’s shadow of the future......Page 131
TopolCon and the Emergence of Systemic Cooperation......Page 133
The shadow of the future’s fragility......Page 139
Learning and prejudice......Page 143
Conclusion......Page 149
8 Chicken dilemmas: crossing the road to cooperation......Page 153
What is Chicken?......Page 154
Chicken situations in international relations......Page 157
Bargaining in a Chicken game......Page 159
Experimental evidence......Page 163
Severity of the dilemma......Page 165
Threats and commitments......Page 166
Set deadlines......Page 171
Use mediation......Page 173
Conclusion......Page 177
9 Conflict management as cooperation......Page 179
The playback effect......Page 182
Cooperation in conflict......Page 183
Cooperation in management......Page 192
Conclusion: cooperating to manage conflict......Page 197
10 Status concerns and multilateral cooperation......Page 200
Managing international order......Page 203
Definition and metrics......Page 205
Status and identity......Page 207
Identity management strategies pursued by states......Page 208
Multilateralism and world order......Page 210
Limits to social mobility......Page 211
Failure of social competition......Page 213
Social creativity......Page 215
Evaluating US responses......Page 219
Conclusion......Page 224
11 Asymmetrical cooperation in economic assistance......Page 226
Self-interest of donor and recipient needs/merits variables......Page 228
Econometric estimation......Page 231
Assessment of the impact of bilateralism in aid allocation......Page 232
Conclusion......Page 239
Appendix 11.1. List and sources of variables......Page 240
Appendix 11.2. Determinants of bilateral ODA per capita commitment (in logarithm)......Page 241
12 Conclusion: improving knowledge of cooperation......Page 245
Depth of cooperation......Page 246
Size of cooperation......Page 250
The impact of time horizons......Page 252
The role of domestic factors......Page 254
Bibliography......Page 256
Index......Page 284