Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy : : Ambivalent Engagement / / ed. by Shepard Forman, Stewart Patrick.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Brown, Bartram S.,; Elliott, Kimberly Ann,; Forman, Shepard,; Graham, Thomas,; Hufbauer, Gary Clyde,; Ikenberry, G. John,; Jacobson, Harold K.,; Karns, Margaret P.,; Kull, Steven,; LaVera, Damien J.,; Luck, Edward C.,; Lyman, Princeton N.,; Mastanduno, Michael,; Mingst, Karen A.,; Moravcsik, Andrew,; Patrick, Stewart,; Sewall, Sarah B.,; Smithson, Amy E.,; Wallace, William,; Wedgwood, Ruth,
• HerausgeberIn: Forman, Shepard,; Patrick, Stewart,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Center on International Cooperation Studies in Multilateralism
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (509 p.)

When should the United States cooperate with others in confronting global problems? Why is the U.S. often ambivalent about multilateral cooperation? What are the costs of acting alone? These are some of the timely questions addressed in this examination of the role of multilateralism in U.S. foreign policy. The authors isolate a number of factors that help to explain U.S. reluctance to commit to multilateral cooperation. They then analyze recent policy in specific areas—e.g., the use of force, peacekeeping, arms control, human rights, the United Nations, sanctions, international trade, environmental protection—probing the causes and consequences of U.S. decisions to act alone or opt out of multilateral initiatives. A concluding chapter underscores the point that increasingly pressing transnational problems may require the U.S. to reform its policymaking structures and to reconsider longstanding assumptions about national sovereignty and freedom of action.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Setting the Context -- 1. Multilateralism and Its Discontents: The Causes and Consequences of U.S. Ambivalence -- Part 2: Dimensions of U.S. Multilateralism -- 2. The United States, International Organizations, and the Quest for Legitimacy -- 3. The Growing Influence of Domestic Factors -- 4. Public Attitudes Toward Multilateralism -- 5. Multilateralism and U.S. Grand Strategy -- 6. U.S. Unilateralism: A European Perspective -- Part 3: Policy in Practice -- 7. Unilateral Action in a Multilateral World -- 8. Multilateral Peace Operations -- 9. Nuclear Weapons: The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and National Missile Defense -- 10. The Chemical Weapons Convention -- 11. The United States as "Deadbeat"? U.S. Policy and the UN Financial Crisis -- 12. Extraterritorial Sanctions: Managing "Hyper-Unilateralism" in U.S. Foreign Policy -- 13. Unilateralism, Multilateralism, and the International Criminal Court -- 14. Why Is U.S. Human Rights Policy So Unilateralist? -- 15. Ambivalent Multilateralism and the Emerging Backlash: The IMF and WTO -- 16. Climate Change: Unilateralism, Realism, and Two-Level Games -- Part 4: The Future of Multilateral Cooperation -- 17. Multilateralism as a Matter of Fact: U.S. Leadership and the Management of the International Public Sector -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book