Seeking Order in Anarchy

Robert W. Murray is Senior Business Advisor, Dentons Canada LLP. He lives in Edmonton.

"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/]

• Acknowledgements Introduction I Ideas of Multilateralism1 The Ethics of International Coercion Two Types of Multilateralism // Antonio Franceschet2 Separated at Birth, Reunited in Global Economics? The English School, Ipe, and Postwar Multilateralism // Greg J. Anderson3 Regional Multilateralism and the Reconfiguration of International SocietyA View from the English School // Matthew S. Weinert4 Realist Multilateralism Co-operation in the Emerging Multipolar System // Robert W. Murray5 The Multilateral Impulse Contract or Covenant? // Paul GecelovskyII Multilateralism in Practice6 Kicking It Old School Romanticism with Conservative Characteristics // Kim Richard Nossal7 Multilateralism and US Foreign PolicyThe United Nations in the Clinton Era // Francis Kofi Abiew8 Multilateralism and Canadian Foreign Trade Policy / A Long View // Christopher J. Kukucha9 Nato and the New Western Imperialism How Western Aggression Created the Russia Problem // Shaun Narine10 Multilateralism as Motive and Opportunity The Case of Canada–South Africa Relations // David R. Black and David J. Hornsby11 Evaluating Keating’s Idea of Multilateralism The United Nations’ Approach to Terrorism in a Post-9/11 World // John McCoy12 Stephen Harper and Multilateralism A Rebuttal to Keating’s Twilight of Canadian Multilateralism // Duane Bratt13 Africa’s Geopolitical Space and Canada’s Multilateral Security Strategy The Chrétien and Harper Eras // Edward Ansah AkuffoConclusion Reconciling the Idea and Practice of Multilateralism // Tom KeatingContributors Index