Minilateralism: How Trade Alliances, Soft Law and Financial Engineering are Redefining Economic Statecraft

摘要: Economic diplomacy is changing. The multilateral organizations that dominated the last half of twentieth century no longer monopolize economic affairs. Instead, countries are resorting to more modest 'minilateral' strategies like trade alliances, informal 'soft law' agreements, and financial engineering manage global economy. Like traditional modes statecraft, these tools aimed at both liberalizing supervising international policy in a world diverse national interests. But unlike before, they specifically tailored navigating post-American (and post-Western) where power diffuse than ever before. This book explains how work reveals this new diplomatic toolbox will reshape do business with one another for decades come.