Contested World Orders

Rising Powers, Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Politics of Authority Beyond the Nation-State

Edited by Matthew D. Stephen and Michael Zürn

A comprehensive and empirically-grounded study of the demands of key actors in the contestation of international institutions
Provides a novel institutionalist theoretical approach to the rise of new powers and NGOs in relation to international institutions
Bridges traditional theoretical divides and present a significant new interpretation of the subject

Contested World Orders

Rising Powers, Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Politics of Authority Beyond the Nation-State

Edited by Matthew D. Stephen and Michael Zürn

Description

World orders are increasingly contested. As international institutions have taken on ever more ambitious tasks, they have been challenged by rising powers dissatisfied with existing institutional inequalities, by non-governmental organizations worried about the direction of global governance, and even by some established powers no longer content to lead the institutions they themselves created. For the first time, this volume examines these sources of contestation under a common and systematic institutionalist framework. While the authority of institutions has deepened, at the same time it has fuelled contestation and resistance.

In a series of rigorous and empirically revealing chapters, the authors of Contested World Orders examine systematically the demands of key actors in the contestation of international institutions. Ranging in scope from the World Trade Organization and the Nuclear Non-proliferation Regime to the Kimberley Process on conflict diamonds and the climate finance provisions of the UNFCCC, the chapters deploy a variety of methods to reveal just to what extent, and along which lines of conflict, rising powers and NGOs contest international institutions. Contested World Orders seeks answers to the key questions of our time: Exactly how deeply are international institutions contested? Which actors seek the most fundamental changes? Which aspects of international institutions have generated the most transnational conflicts? And what does this mean for the future of world order?

Contested World Orders

Rising Powers, Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Politics of Authority Beyond the Nation-State

Edited by Matthew D. Stephen and Michael Zürn

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1:Rising Powers, NGOs and Demands for New World Orders: An Introduction, Matthew D. Stephen and Michael Zürn
Part 1 - World Economic Orders
2:Contestation Overshoot: Rising Powers, NGOs and the Failure of the WTO Doha Round,, Matthew D. Stephen
3:The Contestation of the IMF, Alexandros Tokhi
4:Exclusive Club Under Stress: The G7 between Rising Powers and Non-state Actors after the Cold War, Dirk Peters
Part 2 - World Security Orders
5:The Devil is in the Detail: The Positions of the BRICS Countries towards UN Security Council Reform and the Responsibility to Protect, Anja Jetschke and Pascal Abb
6:The Contestation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime, Harald Müller and Alexandros Tokhi
Part 3 - Human Rights and Environment
7:Negotiating the UN Human Rights Council: Rising powers, established powers and NGOs, Martin Binder and Sophie Eisentraut
8:Contestation in the UNFCCC: The Case of Climate Finance, Miriam Prys-Hansen, Kristina Hahn, Malte Lellmann, and Milan Röseler
Part 4 - Cross-Cutting Cases
9:Transnational Private Authority and Its Contestation, Melanie Coni-Zimmer, Annegret Flohr, and Klaus Dieter Wolf
10:Cleavages in World Politics. Analysing Rising Power Voting Behaviour in the UN General Assembly, Martin Binder and Autumn Lockwood Payton
11:Conclusion: Contested World Orders-Continuity or Change?, Michael Zürn, Klaus Dieter Wolf, and Matthew D. Stephen
Index

Contested World Orders

Rising Powers, Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Politics of Authority Beyond the Nation-State

Edited by Matthew D. Stephen and Michael Zürn

Author Information

Edited by Matthew D. Stephen, Senior Research Fellow, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and Michael Zürn, Director at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Professor FU Berlin, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Matthew D. Stephen is Senior Research Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. From 2018 to 2019, he was Interim Professor for Political Science at the Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg and Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Hamburg. He also lectures part time at the Stanford University Berlin Program. His research concentrates on international power shifts and international institutions.

Michael Zürn is Director at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and Professor of International Relations at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences as well of the European Academy and was the founding rector of the Hertie School of Governance. His research examines governance beyond the nation state, and the legitimacy and authority of global governance institutions. He has - among other themes - most extensively written on the emergence and functioning of inter- and supranational institutions, as well as on the normative tensions and political conflicts that these developments unfold.

Contributors:

Pascal Abb, Senior Researcher, Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution
Martin Binder, Associate Professor in International Relations, University of Reading
Melanie Coni-Zimmer, Senior Research Fellow, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF)
Sophie Eisentraut, Senior Policy Advisor, Munich Security Conference
Anne Flohr, Project Coordinator, TMG Research gGmbH
Kristina Hahn, formerly Research Fellow, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies Hamburg
Anja Jetschke, Professor of International Relations, Institute of Political Science, University of Goettingen
Malte Lellmann, formerly Research Assistant, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Harald Müller, Associate Fellow, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF)
Autumn Lockwood Payton, Lecturer, University of Dayton
Dirk Peters, Senior Research Fellow, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF)
Miriam Prys-Hansen, Lead Research Fellow, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies Hamburg
Milan Röseler, formerly Research Assistant, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Matthew D. Stephen, Senior Research Fellow, Global Governance, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Alexandros Tokhi, Senior Research Fellow, Global Governance, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Klaus Dieter Wolf, Associate Fellow, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF)
Michael Zürn, Director, Global Governance, WZB Berlin Social Science Center