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Multilateralism and Security Institutions in an Era of Globalization, Paperba.... The second part of th provides focus on particular international security institutions, assessing the effects of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the United Nations, and other organizations from neo-liberal institutionalist and social constructivist perspectives. Multilateralism and Security Institutions in an Era of Globalization, Paperback by Bouran, Dimitris (EDT); Ifantis, Kostas (EDT); Tsakonas, Panayotis (EDT), ISBN 0415449464, ISBN-13 9780415449465, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Thirteen papers presented by Bourantonis (international relations, Athens U. of Economics and Business, Greece), Ifantis (international relations, U. of Athens, Greece), and Tsakonas (international relations and security studies, U. of the Aegean, Greece) address a broad range of contemporary issues concerning multilateralism and security institutions. The first seven chapters examine conceptual and strategic issues including American ambivalence about multilateral institutions, the theories of social change underpinning unilateralist and multilateralist policy agendas, the determinants of US commitment to multilateral and bilateral agreements on security issues, the transatlantic relationship and the crisis of the Iraq war, the interaction of state attributes and system properties in the production of security multilateralism, and the simultaneous emergence of humanized multilateralism and politicized humanitarianism. The second part of th provides focus on particular international security institutions, assessing the effects of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the United Nations, and other organizations from neo-liberal institutionalist and social constructivist perspectives. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()