The Concertation Impulse in World Politics

This book unravels the centrality of contestation over international institutions under the shadow of crisis. Andrew Cooper makes a compelling case that concertation represents a fundamental institution as a peer competitor to multilateralism.

Andrew F. Cooper is University Research Chair, Department of Political Science, and Professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo. From 2003 to 2010 he was Associate Director of the Centre for International Governance Innovation, and in 2019 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Diplomacy Section of ISA. He is the author of 11 books, and the editor/co-editor of 22 collections, and his articles have been published in prestigious journals such as International Organization, International Affairs, World Development, and International Studies Review.

1: Unravelling the centrality of the contest over international institutions
2: Concertation as a foundational/fundamental institution
3: Crises as potential animators of institutional transformation
4: Raising the stakes of the institutional contest over the normative dimension
5: Hierarchical privileges of institutional convenience
6: Between aspirations and anxiety: The ambivalent hold of formal institutions by non-incumbents from the Global South
7: Inserting designers into institutional design: Institutional entrepreneurship and the evolution of state-based plurilateralism
8: Recalibrated but still contested: The G20 as a twenty-first century institutional concert format
9: The challenge of personalist-populist institutional disruption at the core of the system
10: Aspirations of a BRICS solidarity concert/hanging together as a pluralist club
Conclusions