Rising States, Rising Institutions

Challenges for Global Governance

Alan S. Alexandroff, Andrew F. Cooper, Alan S. Alexandroff, Andrew F. Cooper

• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9780815704225
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780815704416
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Global Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The global order is shifting.
Even though no major war has intervened to reshape the architecture of the international order, the global financial crisis has accentuated the emergence of an enlarged global leadership. It is clear that change is afoot. The United States may be hanging on as the world's leading power, as the European Union remains an independent force in global politics, but a host of rising states—including China, India, and Brazil—clamor to be heard and take on bigger roles in world forums.
Rising States, Rising Institutions features a panel of distinguished scholars who examine the forces at work: Gregory Chin (York University), Daniel W. Drezner (Tufts University), Thomas Hale (Princeton University), Andrew Hurrell (Oxford University), G. John Ikenberry (Princeton University), John Kirton (University of Toronto), Flynt Leverett (New America Foundation), Steven E. Miller (Harvard University), Andrew Moravcsik (Princeton University), Amrita Narlikar (Cambridge University), and Anne-Marie Slaughter (U.S. State Department). Together they analyze different models of international cooperation, the states that have most actively challenged the existing order, and leading and emergent international institutions such as the G-20, the nascent regime for sovereign wealth funds, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the entities organized to foster cooperation in the war on terror.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Copyright Information
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I: Great Powers and International Structure
• The Three Faces of Liberal Internationalism
• Transgovernmental Networks and Emerging Powers
• Labels Matter: Interpreting Rising States through Acronyms
• Part II: Rising States
• China's Rising Institutional Influence
• Reforming Institutions, Unreformed India?
• Brazil: What Kind of Rising State in What Kind of Institutional Order?
• Europe: Rising Superpower in a Biploar World
• Part III: Rising Institutions
• The "Great Recession" and the Emergence of the G-20 Leaders' Summit
• The G-20 Finance Ministers: Network Governance
• BRIC by BRIC: The Emergent Regime for Sovereign Wealth Funds
• Consuming Energy: Rising Powers, the International Energy Agency, and the Global Energy Architecture
• The War on Terror and International Order: Strategic Choice and Global Governance
• Conclusion
• Contributors
• Index
• Back Cover