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Development And Regional Trade Agreements: Entrenching Structural Inequities, Antonia Eliason
Development And Regional Trade Agreements: Entrenching Structural Inequities, Antonia Eliason
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
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Multilateralism’S Life-Cycle, Harlan G. Cohen
Multilateralism’S Life-Cycle, Harlan G. Cohen
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Does multilateralism have a life-cycle? Perhaps paradoxically, this essay suggests that current pressures on multilateralism and multilateral institutions, including threatened withdrawals by the United Kingdom from the European Union, the United States from the Paris climate change agreement, South Africa, Burundi, and Gambia from the International Criminal Court, and others, may be natural symptoms of those institutions’ relative success. Successful multilateralism and multilateral institutions, this essay argues, has four intertwined effects, which together, make continued multilateralism more difficult: (1) the wider dispersion of wealth or power among members, (2) the decreasing value for members of issue linkages, (3) changing assessment …