US Hegemony and International Organizations / Edition 1

by Rosemary Foot, S. Neil MacFarlane, Michael Mastanduno

Overview

US Hegemony and International Organizations, written by a group of leading scholars from the US and around the world, examines the role of the United States in a variety of global and regional organizations, including the United Nations, the World Bank and IMF, the WTO, NATO, and the Organization of American States.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199261437
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/29/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.62(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

St Antony's College, Oxford University

St Anne's College, Oxford University

Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements1. Introduction, Rosemary Foot, Neil MacFarlane, and Michael MastandunoPerspectives on the US and MIOs2. American exceptionalism and international organization: Lessons from the 1990s, Edward C. Luck3. State power and the institutional bargain: America's ambivalent economic and security multilateralism, G. John IkenberryThe US and global organizations4. US-UN relations through the prism of the UN Security Council in the post-Cold War era, David Malone5. The United States and the international financial institutions: power and influence within the World Bank and the IMF, Ngaire Woods6. The United States and the GATT/WTO system, Gautam Sen7. Looking beyond the 'K-word': Embedded multilateralism in US foreign environmental policy, Stephen HopgoodThe US and regional organizations8. Making Africa safer for capitalism: US policy and multilateralism in Africa, Philip Nel9. US approaches to multilateral security and economic organizations in the Asia-Pacific, Ralph A. Cossa10. Trouble in Pax Atlantica? The United States, Europe and the future of multilateralism, David G. Haglund11. Power multiplied or power restrained? The US and multilateral institutions in the Americas, Hal Klepak12. Conclusion - Instrumental Multilateralism in US Foreign Policy, Rosemary Foot, Neil MacFarlane, and Michael MastandunoSelect bibliography

Editorial Reviews

"The volume is well-written and concieved, and the editorship was clearly professional and tightly organized. I unreservedly recommend it to scholars teaching international relations seminars."—Political Science Quarterly

From the Publisher

This collection is a solid contribution to the growing literature on unilateralism and multilateralism in American foreign policy. Dealing mostly with the second half of the twentieth century, it covers U.S. relations with both global institutions (such as the UN, the WTO, and the World Bank and IMF) and regional ones (such as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Organization of African Unity, and the Organization of American States) and includes chapters by knowledgeable observers such as G. John Ikenberry, Edward C. Luck, Ngaire Woods, and David Malone. The goal of the project, the editors write, was to analyze the sources of U.S. behavior and assess its impact. Their sensible, if less than earth-shattering, conclusion: "America's decisions to cooperate in multilateral forums [are] determined predominantly by the extent to which any specific organization is perceived by important U.S. domestic actors to be an effective and congenial vehicle for the promotion of America's objectives. As for multilateral institutions themselves, they ... operate within the direct and indirect constraints that U.S. instrumentalism imposes."

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