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contestation over fundamental institutions and the constrictions of institutionalist international relations
This title unravels the centrality of contestation over international institutions under the shadow of crisis. Andrew Cooper makes a compelling case that concertation represents a fundamental institution as a peer competitor to multilateralism.
Cover -- Title -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Unravelling the centrality of the contest over international institutions -- The disparity in institutionalist IR: Institutional choice without concertation -- Institutionalist IR as scholarly conceptual foil for this book -- Shifts in motivation-and contestation-of the concertation impulse -- Operational tests of concertation between stigmatization and reproduction -- 2 Concertation as a foundational/fundamental institution -- Reclaiming Bull's privileging of concertation
Reassessing the debate about foundational/fundamental institutions -- Expanding the ambit of concertation in context and content -- Modifying the solidarist/pluralist models of concertation -- Stretching the concertation impulse beyond incumbent ownership -- Building on and beyond Bull's insights -- 3 Crises as potential animators of institutional transformation -- Crises as the master gap in institutionalist IR -- Stretching the boundaries of analysis: Bull to Ikenberry's liberal internationalism and Cox's critical IPE -- Internal debates in IPE about the GFC and institutional performance
Crisis-centrism and the GFC in IPE -- The crisis deficiency as the master gap in institutionalist IR redux -- 4 Raising the stakes of the institutional contest over the normative dimension -- Bifurcation of the normative dimension -- Stratified management versus arbitrary practices -- The extension of arbitrary practices in ascendant informality -- Repositioning the conceptual argumentation from North to de Certeau -- Tilting the institutional contest in an imbalanced fashion -- Institutional legitimacy for whom and for what purpose? -- 5 Hierarchical privileges of institutional convenience
Common (inclusionary) assumptions with differentiated treatment in institutionalist IR -- Hierarchy underpinning institutional design -- Accenting stratification at the core of the system -- The strains of (expedient) US leadership -- Hierarchically driven informal designs prior to the GFC -- Commitment in an expansionary system, reorientated to convenience amid segmentation -- 6 Between aspirations and anxiety: The ambivalent hold of formal institutions by non-incumbents from the Global South -- The risks/reward equation of an innovative institutional design
Rational institutionalism's discomfort with design ambivalence -- Reconsidering the distinctive motivations and modalities of the Global South -- Distorting the solidarity ethos within the Global South -- Reconfiguring dichotomous assumptions about the hold of formality -- The hold of formality, but not an absolute hold -- 7 Inserting designers into institutional design: Institutional entrepreneurship and the evolution of state-based plurilateralism -- Connecting crises to individual and collective human agency -- Bringing in institutional entrepreneurs to the animation of plurilateral summitry
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2024