Internationalism

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  Modernizing the United Nations System

  Civil Society''s Role in Moving from International Relations to Global Governance

  • John E. Trent(Author)
  • 2007(Publication Date)
  • Verlag Barbara Budrich

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  The greatest obstacle to multilateralism is the fear by states that they will have to give up some of their independence. But, Blair continues, there is a common basis for working together: countries can sub-contract out the problems they cannot manage on their own and everyone has an interest in stability. The Analytical Context 39 “I have not become more cynical about idealism. I have simply become more persuaded that the distinction between a foreign policy driven by values and one driven by interests is obviously wrong. Globalization begets interdependence. Interdependence begets the necessity of a common value system to make it work. In other words, the idealism becomes the realpolitik ” ( The Globe and Mail 27-05-06: p. A15). 1.1.9 Summary: Propositions for the Modernization of International Institutions Now let us pull these various theoretical strands together to draw a portrait of the analytical context that will interpret the content of this study on how to modernize institutions like the UN. • The post-World War II inter-national system, dominated by inter-state political relations, is slowly ceding place to a global system characterized by multiple actors, economic regimes, and considerable integration, interdependence and mutual vulnerability. International organizations such as the United Nations are driven by both inter-state and global realities. • There is a consensus that in this current transformative epoch, international relations must of necessity be dualistic (not either/or but both/and) in nature. Here are some illustrations of politics in our inter-regnum between the end of the Cold War and whatever comes next. While sovereignty is continually being undermined, state governments remain the most powerful international decision-makers. We now must work within “the classical tradition, expanded but not superseded”.

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  Socialism in a Cold Climate

  • John Griffith(Author)
  • 2010(Publication Date)
  • Routledge

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  11 Nationalism and Internationalism: a Critique of Economic and Defence Policies Michael Mann

  The main argument of this chapter is that the British Labour Party has not yet responded squarely to recent changes in global power relations. The right of the Party (in common with other political parties) continues to cling to a traditional Internationalism dominated by the United States and by international capital. The left reasserts traditional nationalism; in economic policy it drifts towards protectionism and autarchy and in defence policy towards unilateralism. Neither can now make a significant contribution to democratic socialism or to peace. A new Internationalism is required that is based on alliance with those classes and nations abroad that are threatened by similar forces. This chapter attempts to identify those friends and to argue for a reorientation of basic strategy towards them.

  To an extent, the same argument underpins my treatment of economic and defence policy. But there are sufficiently large differences between them to require separate discussion.1

  Economic policy: changes in national and international economies

  Democracy is rule by the people. To this ancient political aspiration socialism has added the notion of popular economic rule. Democracy can be assured only by popular control of the economy, or at least of its ‘commanding heights’. All socialists seek greater public control of economic power, no matter how divided they may be about its forms and its limits. But socialists have rarely faced up to the problem of exactly where the control is to be exercised.

  If socialism were merely a domestic aspiration, the answer would be clear: control the national state! For this state has a near-monopoly of formal rule-making in the modern world. But as socialism includes economic aspirations, another arena becomes relevant: the international power relations of capitalism. In this section I argue that democratic socialism requires controls over both national and international arenas, for they

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  Rising States, Rising Institutions

  Challenges for Global Governance

  • Alan S. Alexandroff, Andrew F. Cooper, Alan S. Alexandroff, Andrew F. Cooper(Authors)
  • 2010(Publication Date)
  • Brookings Institution Press

    (Publisher)

  Dimensions of Liberal Internationalism The liberal imagination is vast, and the ideas and designs for liberal interna-tional order are also extraordinarily wide ranging. At its most basic, liberal Internationalism offers a vision of an open, rules-based system in which states trade and cooperate to achieve mutual gains. 3 Liberals assume that peoples and governments have deep common interests in the establishment of a cooperative world order organized around principles of restraint, reciprocity, and sover-eign equality. An optimistic assumption lurks in liberal Internationalism that states can overcome constraints and cooperate to solve security dilemmas, pur-sue collective action, and create an open, stable system. There is also an opti-mistic assumption that powerful states will act with restraint in the exercise of their power and find ways credibly to convey commitments to other states. Across the decades, liberal internationalists have shared the view that trade and exchange have a modernizing and civilizing effect on states, undercutting illiberal tendencies and strengthening the fabric of international community. Liberal internationalists also share the view that democracies—in contrast to autocratic and authoritarian states—are particularly able and willing to operate within a open, rules-based international system and to cooperate for mutual gain. Likewise, liberal internationalists share the view that institutions and rules 3. For surveys of liberal international theory, see Keohane (1990); Doyle (1997); Deudney and Ikenberry (1999); and Russett and Oneal (2001). 20 G. John Ikenberry established between states facilitate and reinforce cooperation and collective problem solving. 4 Beyond these general shared liberal convictions, there is a great deal of variation in the ordering ideas of liberal Internationalism.

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