The chapters in this volume identify and assess the political process and bases of support for multilateralism in terms of the shifting power relations in world politics, institutional innovations in the United Nations and non-UN multilateralisms. They seek to answer the question: What can and should be done to confront salient issues of the global problematic ? More specifically, the essayists ask whether currently existing multilateral mechanisms are up to the challenge.

S. JAMES ANAYA Professor of Law, University of Iowa ABDULLAHI AHMED AN-NA'IM Lecturer in International Law, Emory University ELENA ERSHOVA President of GAIA International Women's Center and Co-chair of the Women's League STEPHEN GILL Professor of Political Science, University of York, Ontario ALBELARDO MORALES Researcher and Professor Associated with the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO Costa Rica). LINDA RACIOPPI Lecturer in International Relations, James Madison College, Michigan State University KATHERINE O'SULLIVAN SEE Head of Social Relations, James Madison College, Michigan State University MARIE-CLAUDE SMOUTS Director of Research, Centre d'Études PETER SODERHÖLM Research Associate in Political Science, University of Lund TAKEO UCHIDA Professor of International Public Policy, Chuo University JONAS ZONINSEIN Lecturer in Political Economy and International Relations, James Madison College, Michigan State University