By imposing a “rules-based order,” its masterminds haughtily reject the key principle underlying UN Charter, which is sovereign equality of states. Western countries’ brazen attempts to bring Secretariats and other international organizations under their control are threat multilateral system. It imperative expedite Security Council reform by expanding representation countries in Asia, Africa, ...

I use the nuclear proliferation regime to show that dyadic diplomacy is not necessarily incompatible with the building of a multilateral regime; bilateralism is not the opposite of multilateralism, but an efficient component thereof+ Although this point will not be new to most students of institutions, no general rationale has so far been offered on the complementarity of bilateral and multilat...

The funding of global public goods, such as climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation, presents a complex strategic problem. Potential recipients demand side payments for implementing projects that furnish global public goods, and donors can cooperate to provide the funding. We offer a game-theoretic analysis of this problem. In our model, a recipient demands funding for a project. Donor...

Jayantha Dhanapala is the Under-Secretary General for Disarmament Affairs at the United Nations. He served as President of the 1995 Nonproliferation Treaty Review and Extension Conference. He has also served as the Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in Geneva and the United States, worked as Director of the Geneva-based United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), and ...

Despite a strong commitment to multilateralism and international health cooperation in the post World War II era, Canada refrained form joining the Pan American Health Organization - PAHO until 1971. Drawing on letters and memos sent between Canadian diplomats and government representatives, this paper explores official Canadian accounts of the factors that delayed Canada's membership in PAHO. ...

Ilona Kickbusch's thought provoking editorial is criticized in this commentary, partly because she fails to refer to previous critical work on the global conditions and policies that sustain inequality, poverty, poor health and damage to the biosphere and, as a result, she misreads global power and elides consideration of the fundamental historical structures of political and material power tha...

On the eve of independence, France signed defense treaties with its former African colonies to maintain military influence across continent. Accordingly, it routinely made unilateral interventions as saw fit for decades. However, in recent years, local communities Africa are resenting French presence on their soil and paternalistic posture affairs which many assimilate neo-colonialism. As a res...