"The idea of multilateralism is not something that can be forced on states, nor does it come naturally to them." -Tom Keating
Seeking Order in Anarchy offers insights into both the theoretical foundations and the real-world outcomes of multilateralism in world affairs. Recognizing that Tom Keating's theories, though rooted in Canadian foreign policy, have a broader application in international relations, Robert W. Murray has assembled an array of theoretical interpretations of multilateralism, as well as case studies examining its practical effects. Drawing from the insights of fourteen noted scholars and featuring an essay from Tom Keating himself, this volume examines the conditions that encourage states to adopt multilateral strategies, and the consequences of doing so in the context of increasingly complex global politics. Seeking Order in Anarchy is an important book for scholars, graduate students, policy makers, and anyone interested in how multilateralism functions in today's world.
Contributors: Francis Kofi Abiew, Edward Ansah Akuffo, Greg J. Anderson, David R. Black, Duane Bratt, Antonio Franceschet, Paul Gecelovsky, David J. Hornsby, Tom Keating, Christopher J. Kukucha, John McCoy, Robert W. Murray, Shaun Narine, Kim Richard Nossal, Matthew S. Weinert Fifteen scholars examine theoretical foundations and the practice of multilateralism in contemporary world affairs. Bibliography, notes, index "They say Cape Buffalo ward off predators by instinctive mobbing behaviour. Many buffalo will join to protect the herd. Among nations, this is called "multilateralism". It sounds co-operative and altruistic, but in practice can be narrow and cynical. Seeking Order In Anarchy examines the phenomenon with first-rate essays by political scientists. The book is timely, in an age of rising nationalism and a receding tide of free trade." [Full article at https://www.blacklocks.ca/review-the-herd/] "For those engaged in re-engineering Canada's foreign policy, Seeking Order in Anarchy: Multilateralism as State Strategy, a splendid volume edited by Robert W. Murray, offers helpful perspective… The authors highlight a distinctive Canadian scholarship of international relations- literate, analytically acute…. And the great Canadian scholar Tom Keating contributes a fine set of conclusions seeking to reconcile and illuminate the idea and often imperfect practice of multilateralism." Acknowledgements
Introduction
I Ideas of Multilateralism
1 The Ethics of International Coercion
Two Types of Multilateralism // Antonio Franceschet
2 Separated at Birth, Reunited in Global Economics?
The English School, Ipe, and Postwar Multilateralism // Greg J. Anderson
3 Regional Multilateralism and the Reconfiguration of International Society
A View from the English School // Matthew S. Weinert
4 Realist Multilateralism
Co-operation in the Emerging Multipolar System // Robert W. Murray
5 The Multilateral Impulse
Contract or Covenant? // Paul Gecelovsky
II Multilateralism in Practice
6 Kicking It Old School
Romanticism with Conservative Characteristics // Kim Richard Nossal
7 Multilateralism and US Foreign Policy
The United Nations in the Clinton Era // Francis Kofi Abiew
8 Multilateralism and Canadian
Foreign Trade Policy / A Long View // Christopher J. Kukucha
9 Nato and the New Western Imperialism
How Western Aggression Created the Russia Problem // Shaun Narine
10 Multilateralism as Motive and Opportunity
The Case of Canada–South Africa Relations // David R. Black and David J. Hornsby
11 Evaluating Keating's Idea of Multilateralism
The United Nations' Approach to Terrorism in a Post-9/11 World // John McCoy
12 Stephen Harper and Multilateralism
A Rebuttal to Keating's Twilight of Canadian Multilateralism // Duane Bratt
13 Africa's Geopolitical Space and Canada's Multilateral Security Strategy
The Chrétien and Harper Eras // Edward Ansah Akuffo
Conclusion
Reconciling the Idea and Practice of Multil
