Beyond Multilateralism

Beyond Multilateralism

This book uses three in-depth case studies to illustrate the shortcomings of conventional multilateral diplomacy in dealing with emerging transnational problems. David T. Twining discusses the United Nation's Commission on Sustainable Development and its inability to carry out the promises of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit; the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and its difficulty in achieving its goals in troubled areas such as Bosnia; and the relatively successful efforts of the World Bank Group, a multilateral institution. With the approach of the 21st century, Twining argues, nation-states must seek to engage the widest number of participants and to find ways to go 'beyond multiculturalism' as it currently exists, if global environmental, economic, and security problems are to be resolved.

Trade Facilitation Beyond the Multilateral Trade Negotiations

This publication brings together the main research outputs produced by the Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT), and its members and partners, between April 2006 and January 2007. The book includes 10 chapters that introduce the concept of trade and facilitation beyond the ongoing multilateral trade negotiations, provide an analysis of regional trade facilitation initiatives, describe rules of origin in Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs), present customs valuation in developing countries, and give broader perspective of trade facilitation and recommendations on arriving at a meaningful multilateral agreement on trade facilitation.

Twentieth Century International Relations: Whatever happened to the Pacific century?