Emerging Powers in Global Governance

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The early twenty-first century has seen the beginning of a considerable shift in the global balance of power. Major international governance challenges can no longer be addressed without the ongoing co-operation of the large countries of the global South. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, ASEAN states, and Mexico wield great influence in the macro-economic foundations upon which rest the global political economy and institutional architecture. It remains to be seen how the size of the emerging powers translates into the ability to shape the international system to their own will.

In this book, leading international relations experts examine the positions and roles of key emerging countries in the potential transformation of the G8 and the prospects for their deeper engagement in international governance. The essays consider a number of overlapping perspectives on the G8 Heiligendamm Process, a co-operation agreement that originated from the 2007 summit, and offer an in-depth look at the challenges and promises presented by the rise of the emerging powers.

Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation

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• Political science

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• Publié par: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Date de parution: 30 octobre 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781554586592
• Langue: English

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Emerging Powers in Global Governance
Studies in International Governance is a research and policy analysis series from the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Titles in the series provide timely consideration of emerging trends and current challenges in the broad field of international governance. Representing diverse perspectives on important global issues, the series will be of interest to students and academics while serving also as a reference tool for policy-makers and experts engaged in policy discussion. To reach the greatest possible audience and ultimately shape the policy dialogue, each volume will be made available both in print through WLU Press and, twelve months after publication, accessible for free online through the IGLOO Network under the Creative Commons License.
Emerging Powers in Global Governance Lessons from the Heiligendamm Process
Andrew F. Cooper and Agata Antkiewicz, editors
Wilfrid Laurier University Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through its Book Publishing Industry Development Program for its publishing activities. Wilfrid Laurier University Press acknowledges the financial support of the Centre for International Governance Innovation. The Centre for International Governance Innovation gratefully acknowledges support for its work program from the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Emerging powers in global governance : lessons from the Heiligendamm process / Andrew F. Cooper and Agata Antkiewicz, editors.
(Studies in international governance) Co-published by: Centre for International Governance Innovation. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-55458-057-6
1 . International organization. 2 . International cooperation. 3 . International relations. 4 . Group of Eight (Organization). 5 . G 8 Heiligendamm Process. I. Cooper, Andrew F. (Andrew Fenton), [date] II. Antkiewicz, Agata III. Centre for International Governance Innovation IV. Series.
JZ1318. E43 2008 341.2 C2008- 905844-5
Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
2008 The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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Contents
Foreword Dirk Messner
Preface Yoginder Alagh
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Acronyms
1 The Heiligendamm Process: Structural Reordering and Diplomatic Agency Andrew F. Cooper
2 The Logic of the B(R)ICSAM Model for Global Governance Timothy M. Shaw, Agata Antkiewicz, and Andrew F. Cooper
3 From G 8 2003 to G 13 2010 ? The Heiligendamm Process s Past, Present, and Future John Kirton
B(R)ICSAM CASE STUDIES
4 China s Evolving G 8 Engagement: Complex Interests and Multiple Identity in Global Governance Reform Gregory T. Chin
5 India and the G 8 : Reaching Out or Out of Reach? Abdul Nafey
6 Brazil and the G 8 Heiligendamm Process Denise Gregory and Paulo Roberto de Almeida
7 South Africa: Global Reformism, Global Apartheid, and the Heiligendamm Process Brendan Vickers
8 A Break with the Past or a Natural Progression? Mexico and the Heiligendamm Process Duncan Wood
9 ASEAN and the G 8 : Potentially Productive Partners or Two Ships Passing in the Night? Paul Bowles
THE EVOLVING ARCHITECTURE OF CHANGE
10 Germany and the Heiligendamm Process Thomas Fues and Julia Leininger
11 Why Is the OECD Involved in the Heiligendamm Process? Richard Woodward
12 Russia and Evolution of the Heiligendamm Process Victoria V. Panova
13 The United States and Summit Reform in a Transformational Era Colin I. Bradford, Jr.
14 Enhanced Engagement: The Heiligendamm Process and Beyond Alan S. Alexandroff
List of Contributors
Index
Foreword
The ongoing tectonic power shifts in the global system have become the paramount topic for academic reflection and political strategies in international affairs. A group of rising powers from the global South is effectively challenging western predominance, the hallmark of the global order over the last two centuries. Different labels and analytical categories are used in identifying the new powerhouses, such as Asian drivers of global change, anchor countries, and now the B(R)ICSAM constellation of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and Mexico, introduced by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in Waterloo, Canada. This highly innovative think tank has been at the forefront of systematic research on global governance arrangements that would be capable of addressing the survival issues of sustainable development and equity. CIGI s research is built on long-term transnational networking that brings together high-ranking scholars from the industrialized and the developing worlds.
The volume at hand is an excellent example of the timeliness and inclusiveness that characterize CIGI publications. It takes a comprehensive view of the Heiligendamm Process (HP) established in 2007 by German chancellor Angela Merkel, then G 8 host. This outreach effort of the leading industrialized countries toward those five emerging powers provides a new framework for issue-based informal exchanges on crucial aspects of global policy making. Due to end in 2009 , the HP has come half the way in trying to build trust and identify common approaches to pressing problems. It remains to be seen if it can open the gate to a formal expansion of the G 8 or if it, rather, represents yet another makeshift exercise without positive impact for summit reform.
The contributions to this volume cover a wide range of analytical and policy issues related to the HP and to the current global order in a broader sense. They highlight the multiple motivations and interests of participating nation-states and ask for the implications of G 8 reform for the global governance system. Of particular relevance are the perspectives of rising powers, which are introduced through detailed country profiles of each of the five dialogue partners. An article on the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) complements the section on the developing world and an article on the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) offers an institutional context for the HP. With regard to industrialized countries, the United States, Russia, and Germany (as initiator of the HP) receive special attention. The insights of these excellent contributions will be of lasting benefit to scholars and practitioners alike as they grapple with the turbulent reshaping of global affairs of which the HP is a small but significant element.
Dirk Messner
Director, German Development Institute (DIE)
Bonn, August 2008
Preface
This is a book on the role of big emerging powers in the workings of the Group of Eight. It considers a number of global issues that bother states and organizations at the high diplomatic table and the strategies used to address them. The contributions here certainly deliver-in detail and with sophistication-to this important discussion, given the fact that the area is new.
The editors set the stage in the introductory chapters by stating their interest in structure over causation. But the compulsion of life-even at the level of global abstraction-pushes analysis further, toward interests and changing strategies in an emerging multi-polar world. The interface between this analytical discourse and the descriptive and normative aspects of structure is the true strength of this book. It recognizes that no neat formulas are available to explain certain developments and that some formulas fall by the wayside as states manoeuvre their own interest through different structural organizations.
The analysis, however, has substantive content, since the global aspects of issues emerging again and again are compelling. At the structural level, the authors examine institutional alternatives. They bring out the relationship between ideas, economic strategy, performance, and diplomatic leverage. This is a fascinating book, and it will be read widely by students of international affairs and used in diplomatic training.
The question that will follow-and one hopes that Andrew F. Cooper and Agata Antkiewicz will use some of their unbounded energy to pursue further-is this: Why did some of the earlier outreach initiatives not go as far as designed? Progress toward the laudable leaders 20 (L 20 ) initiative, as promoted by former Canadian prime minister Paul Martin, was started but never matured to Martin s original design.
We need to push the analysis of mistakes made, for, as the contributors rightly bring out, the world is different now and the cost of making mistakes is much higher. The G 8 has struggled to develop an effective strategy of engaging the big emerging powers from the global South, and can be seen