Towards a New Multilateralism Cultural Divergence and Political Convergence?

This edited book focuses on the dynamic balance between global cultural diversity and multilateral convergence in relevant policy areas that involve actual and potential policy convergences (and divergences): the environment, trade, peace and security, and human rights. It offers theoretical reflections about the impact of the concept of multiple modernities on new ideas, cultural backgrounds, and/or national or regional particularities. An interdisciplinary team of authors combines comparative policy analysis with theoretical dialogue about the conceptual, institutional, normative, and political dimensions of a new kind of multilateral cooperation. Finally, the book concludes that by stimulating an intercultural dialogue which goes beyond a mere "rational choice" approach, we can foster progress through a better understanding of the opportunities and limitations offered by a pluralist, varied, post-hegemonic, and multilayered form of multilateral cooperation. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European/EU studies, economics, human rights, climate change, history, cultural studies, international relations, international political economy, security studies, and international law.

Introduction Mario Telò and Thomas Meyer PART 1: Environmental Policy, Climate Change, and Ecological Civilization 1. Meeting sustainable development goals through a paradigm shift in the world pattern Pan Jiahua and Yang Xinran 2. China’s global ecological civilization and multilateral environmental governance Coraline Goron 3. Chinese power sector regulation: Key lessons for developing nations Deborah Seligsohn Part 2: Trade Wars, Economic Cooperation, and Social Justice 4. The crisis of international trade, and its cultural and political implications: Is the EU's approach contributing to a renewal of multilateralism? Mario Telò 5. EU-China economic and trade relations in the hard times of the world economy Ding Chun and Zhang Xiaotong 6. Towards a comprehensive approach to trade and social justice Renato Flôres Part 3: Which Global Governance and Multilateral Peacekeeping? 7. Multilateralism in crisis: A European perspective Michael Zürn 8. Human security, climate change, and migration: A European perspective Nuno Severiano Teixeira, Joana Castro Pereira, and Susana Ferreira PART 4: Universalism vs. Relativism in Protecting Human Rights 9. Multiple modernities and universal human rights Thomas Meyer 10. Human rights and a "garden" of human community in the post-globalization era Eun-Jeung Lee 11. The crisis of multilateralism and the future of human rights André W. M. Gerrits PART 5: Towards a New Multilateralism: Deepening the Conceptional Dimension 12. Multilateralism via inter-practicality: Institutions and relations Qin Yaqing

Thomas Meyer is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, and Editor in Chief of the monthly political magazine Neue Gesellschaft/Frankfurter Hefte. José Luís de Sales Marques is President of the Institute of European Studies of Macau (IEEM), Macau. Mario Telò isJean Monnet Chair of International Relations at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and Rome’s LUISS, and a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Brussels.