The concertation impulse in world politics : contestation over fundamental institutions and the constrictions of institutionalist international relations / Andrew F. Cooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, Andrew Fenton, 1950- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International agencies.

World politics.

International relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

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

Enlarging the culture of inclusivity

Omission-recaptured engagement with core summit dynamics

An institutional design concept anticipating the Covid-19 crisis

Continuing to struggle between design and designers

8. Recalibrated but still contested: The G20 as a twenty-first-century institutional concert format

Institutionalist IR in continual catch-up mode

Not a classic concert in design but an institution with concert-like features

Differentiating analyses of informality under the influence of rationalist institutionalism

Moving the locus of concern from contestation over order to arbitrary tactics

Non-incumbents engaging without (equal) ownership.

Turning towards a global focal point

Institutional traction amid the organizational limitations

9. The (Trump) challenge of personalist-populist institutional disruption at the core of the system

Institutions not personalism as the cause of stress in the system

Trump and the debate over the (anti-)institutional challenge

The search for rationality in the Trump challenge

Concerts as sites of (arbitrary) personalistic practice

Fitting the Trump challenge (awkwardly) into twenty-first-century concertation

Trump and the reconfiguration of concertation as personalist focal points

The control-competence conundrum as an addendum

Beyond the bias towards rationality and US-centrism

10. Aspirations of a BRICS solidarity concert/hanging together as a pluralist club

Russia's ambitious BRICS promotion

Russian exceptionalism under Bull's shadow

Stylized interpretations of rising powers and institutions

A return to omission-catch-up engagement

The curtailment of solidarity dreams/unanticipated plural sustainability

Cushioning Russia, without concertation

Conclusions: The recurrent impulse towards concertation

Bull's privileging of concertation and reclaiming fundamental status

The disconnect between institutionalist IR and core debates over institutional design

This time it is different?

The long-expected death or modification of concertation as a focal point

The embedded paradox of the concertation impulse

References

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 23, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-889769-3

0-19-889758-8

0-19-889757-X

OCLC:

1410459806