Multilateralism Past Present and Future

<p>This book offers an important chronological perspective on the evolution of multilateralism within Europe and beyond.</p><p>It provides a critical reconstruction of the history of the idea and praxis of peaceful global governance a comparative analysis of regional multilateral organisations and a discussion about concrete trends and perspectives of a new multilateralism against the challenging context of the current multipolar power politics. Focusing on the changing European interplay with multilateralism – from Eurocentric cradle of civilian cooperation among sovereign imperial states to political dwarf after the two world wars and decolonisation and to potential co-leader of a multilayered and multi-actor cooperation within the current multipolar order it addresses a theoretical “gap” by fuelling the long-recognised idealism v. realism debate over international cooperation and institutionalisation with both historical and new empirical insights.</p><p>This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European studies global governance multilateralism international organisations and more broadly international relations.</p>