Plurilateralism… get used to it

Global governance in the aughties

(Nanotechnology?)

Cheering for ‘democracy’

Although I share his sense that the Copenhagen events illustrated a watershed, I'm surprised by this pedestrian analysis from Rachman.

Multilateralism not a ‘single undertaking’

Haass provides three possible new conformations of multilateralism for the 21st century that seem plausible to me: 'regionalism' as in regional trade agreements; 'functional' multilateralism—by which he means 'coalitions of the willing' or the 'critical mass' agreements that have been at the core of my recent work on agricultural trade agreements—and; 'informal' multilateralism comprising executive agreements…

Eonomic integration of Pacific Islands

But this anxiety and pessimism is misplaced: