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Pursuing Effective Multilateralism

Part of the Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230281974

ISBN: 978-1-349-31590-1

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Mar 5, 2015

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Chapter 1The European Union, Multilateralism and the Heterogeneous Multilateral System

Kissack, Robert

Pages: 1 –24

[The attacks of 9/11 that sent the US spiralling into a neo- conservative vortex of pre- emptive warfare, regime change and unilateral military action had a well- documented spillover into the European Union (EU) (Peterson & Pollack 2003; Calleo 2004). The (in)famous reference by US Defense...
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Chapter 2Majoritarianism in Multilateral Institutions

Kissack, Robert

Pages: 25 –57

[As Miles Kahler has stated, the fact that states ‘bitterly contest voting rules’ implies that states care greatly about them and how they operate in practice. This is the first of three chapters that explore in detail the idealtype decision–making processes of consensus intergovernmentalism,...
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Chapter 3Consensus in Multilateral Institutions

Kissack, Robert

Pages: 58 –97

[The second of Inis Claude’s three ideal types of decision making in international organisations is the egalitarianism of international law in which ‘every state has equal voice in international proceedings, and that no state can be bound without its consent’ (Claude 1984: 119). The logical...
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Chapter 4Privilege in Multilateral Institutions

Kissack, Robert

Pages: 98 –137

[This quotation from Paul Kennedy’s The Parliament of the Man refers to the constitutional arrangements of the UNSC, where the victorious powers of World War II sought to institutionalise their privileged position as primus inter pares among sovereign states. Permanent membership of the UNSC and...
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Chapter 5Negotiation, Rhetoric and Legitimacy in Multilateral Institutions

Kissack, Robert

Pages: 138 –165

[Over the previous three chapters, the representation, influence and power of the EU in different international organisations of the multilateral system has been explored. Using Claude’s three ideal types of decision making (majoritarianism, consensus and privilege) as a prism to see multilateral...
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Chapter 6Conclusion

Kissack, Robert

Pages: 166 –187

[Is effectiveness, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder? In a multilateral organisation, Inis Claude suggests that it is, and the viewpoint of the beholder is determined by how well national interests converge with the views of other member states. In the case of majoritarian and consensus...

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