Multilateralism
An Agenda for Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4907175 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert O Keohane (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 731 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Canada s Journal of Global Policy Analysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7020 • E-ISSN: 2052-465X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/40202705 |
| OpenAlex | W4254892008 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 166 |
Multilateralism can be defined as the practice of co-ordinating national policies in groups of three or more states, through ad hoc arrangements or by means of institutions. Since the end of World War II, multilateralism has become increasingly important in world politics, as manifested in the proliferation of multinational conferences on a bewildering variety of themes and an increase in the number of multilateral intergovernmental organizations from fewer than 100 in 1945 to about 200 by i960 and over 600 by 1980.1 Bilateralism has been revived on some issues in the 1980s, particularly with regard to trade, yet the number and variety of multilateral arrangements continue to increase. In the international relations literature, multilateralism has served as a label for a variety of activities more than as a concept defining a research programme. When a scholar refers to multilateralism, it is not immediately clear what phenomena are to be described and explained. Before we can understand multilateralism, we need to think about how we should conceive of it and
Bilateralism · Economics · International relations · International trade · Multilateralism · Multinational corporation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Development and Aid · Law
International Pecking Orders
Multilateralismo, crise e migração venezuelana
Self-Interest in Canadian Foreign Policy
Sources of Change in United States–United Nations Relations
How International Law Works
Contested multilateralism
Issues, Institutions and Middle-Power Diplomacy
Internationalisierung des Staates
Niche Diplomacy
Der Wandel des deutschen Multilateralismus
The reincarnation of CoCom
Remaking Global Order
Global Summitry
Hollow multilateralism
Decentralized cooperation in the light of sub-state diplomacy theory. The case of the municipality of Quelimane, Mozambique
Beyond Great Powers
Hedging via Institutions
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
Hedging Through Multilateral Economic Frameworks in the US–China Strategic Competition
Sino-EU multilateralism relation
Crisis of Multilateralism and Cities’ Helping Hand
Contribution of subnational authorities to multilateralism from the EU perspective—Implementation of the SDGs
Multipolarity and the Future of Multilateralism
Upstream-downstream linkages in Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin
Southern Multilateralism
China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia and its implications for Asean-China strategic partnership
Canadian-American Relations
Universal human rights vs cultural & religious variations
The End of Tourism as We Know It
The African Human Rights System, Activist Forces and International Institutions
On the identity of Nato
Understanding electoral shifts in the Gauteng City-Region
Gobernanza multilateral en las Américas tras la migración forzada venezolana
Autonomization of IGOs
The Rise and Decline of the Summit of the Americas
The Transformation of German Multilateralism
Multipolarity, Multilateralism and Beyond …? EU– China Understandings of the International System
O regime de comércio internacional
Hybrid minilateralism
Don't Come Home, America
China ́ s Performance in International Resource Politics
Multilateralism in China ́ s Asean Policy
Reconciling Multiple Economic Multilateralisms
Mitos y realidades de Colombia y Perú
Managing the Evolution of Multilateralism
International regimes and alliance behavior
Thailand’s role in the context of Acmecs centrality
China’s Multilayered Multilateralism
Twenty-First Century Military Multilateralism
Multilateralism, Developmental Regionalism, and the African Development Bank
Orchestrating multilateralism
Testing the Club Dynamics of the BRICS
Decoding Vietnam’s Multilateral Diplomacy
Conceptualizing Groups in un Multilateralism
Beijing’s Institutionalised Economic Statecraft Towards Brazil
Multistakeholderism
Money and multilateralism
The Institutional Design of Arms Control Agreements
Contending metaphors of the European Union as a global actor
Congress in the World
Norm Sabotage
The Making of the Inter-American Democratic Charter
Look West
Multilateralism in a unipolar world
China's New Multilateral Institutions
Changing the Rules
What Are International Institutions
The epistemic authority of solution-oriented global environmental assessments
Multilateralism and East Asian transitions
Im(perfect) allies
Empty bravado or hopeful illusions’
Values and multilateralism in world politics
Westphalian Sovereignty
Authoritarian multilateralism in the global cyber regime complex
Minilateralism and effective multilateralism in the global nuclear order
India in Contested Regional Multilateralism
An Analysis of the Multilateral Cooperation and Competition between Russia and China in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Multilateralism, Major Powers, and Militarized Disputes
Regionalism and the quest for security
Simply another practice among others? Analysing the rise of strategic partnerships in the Asia-Pacific region
The Bush administration and Asia Pacific multilateralism
Russia and the Collective Security Treaty Organisation
Reassessing Communist International Organisations
Can we identify a benevolent hegemon
Partnerships for effective multilateralism? Assessing the compatibility between EU bilateralism, (inter-)regionalism and multilateralism
Minilateral security's relevance to US strategy in the Indo-Pacific
China’s contestation of the liberal international order
Contested Asia's ‘New’ multilateralism and regional order
Japan and Asian-Pacific security
Neither skepticism nor romanticism
Between realism and idealism in Japanese security policy
Multilateralism
Where Do States Go? Strategy in Civil War Intervention
The Correlates of War 2 International Governmental Organizations Data Version 2.0
Regionalism and conflict management
Doha stalemate
The European Union and the crisis of multilateralism in an era of uncertainty and power politics
French military operations in Africa
India’s multilateral foreign policy strategy
Sharing responsibility
| Unique citing works | 137 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,74 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2026 (36) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 162 |