Innovation in Multilateralism

S. JAMES ANAYA Professor of Law, University of IowaABDULLAHI AHMED AN-NA'IM Lecturer in International Law, Emory UniversityELENA ERSHOVA President of GAIA International Women's Center and Co-chair of the Women's LeagueSTEPHEN GILL Professor of Political Science, University of York, OntarioALBELARDO MORALES Researcher and Professor Associated with the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO Costa Rica).LINDA RACIOPPI Lecturer in International Relations, James Madison College, Michigan State UniversityKATHERINE O'SULLIVAN SEE Head of Social Relations, James Madison College, Michigan State UniversityMARIE-CLAUDE SMOUTS Director of Research, Centre d'Études PETER SODERHÖLM Research Associate in Political Science, University of LundTAKEO UCHIDA Professor of International Public Policy, Chuo University JONAS ZONINSEIN Lecturer in Political Economy and International Relations, James Madison College, Michigan State University

• Preface Notes on the Contributors List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Editor's Introduction; M.G.Schechter PART I: THE EVOLVING GLOBAL STRUCTURE AND THE UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM International Institutions: Obstacles, Agents or Conduits of Global Structural Change?; M. G.Schechter United Nations Reform: A Strategy of Avoidance; M-C. Smouts The United Nations and the Crossroads of Reform; A. Morales Northern Perspectives for Peace and Security Functions of the United Nations; T.Uchida PART II: EVOLVING GLOBAL STRUCTURES AND INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION Structural Changes in Multilateralism: The G-7 Nexus and the Global Crisis; S. Gill Implications of the Evolving Global Structure for the UN System: a View from the South; J. Zoninsein PART III: POST-HEGEMONIC MULTILATERALISM AND BEYOND Expanding the Limits of Imagination: Human Rights from a Participatory Approach to New Multilateralism; A.A. An-Na'im Indigenous People and Developments in International Law: Toward Change through Multilateralism and the Modern Human Rights Frame AIDS and Multilateral Governance; P. Soderh�lm Gender, Social Movements, and Multilateralism: A Case Study of Women's Organizing in Russia; E. Ershova, L. Racioppi and K. O'Sullivan See Index