Global Multi-level Governance: European and East Asian Leadership
This book examines the opportunity to sustain peace and prosperity through dynamic, multi-level governance in which individual states better engage in global processes and institutions via broad and hyperlinked regional regimes. De Prado presents four case studies of political, advisory, economic and social multi-level governance centred in Europe and East Asia. These cases examine government actors advancing traditional agendas through formal regional institutions and flexible intergovernmental processes; Track-2 processes that link governments with economic and civil society actors; dynamic economic cooperation through the information and telecommunications sectors; and broader social advancement through regionally and globally educated human resources. The author concludes that the convergence of European and East Asian political, economic and social agendas could spur the United States and other powers and regions to better engage in global multi-level governance, and reinvigorate multilateral organisations such as the United Nations through effective engagement with these dynamic regional and interregional regimes.
Endorsements:
"A carefully researched analysis of East Asian and European regionalism, their driving forces and the interaction between the regions. The study is remarkable both for its theoretical quality and its novel empirical data. A most valuable source for students of regionalism."
Karl Kaiser, Visiting Professor, Harvard University; Former Director, German Council on Foreign Relations
"A rich and interesting book, crammed with an astonishing range of detail about networked governance from Europe to Asia. His theoretical framework encompasses actors from international organizations to corporations, universities to think tanks, offering a way to map the new world order."
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
"This interesting book makes a strong case for the emergence of a multi-level global governance system that knits together regionally-based governments and non-governmental actors with specific reference to Europe's and Asia's knowledge systems. Interested readers will learn from de Prado's analytical framework and some well-researched case material."
Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter Professor, Jr. of International Studies, Cornell University
UNU Press, Tokyo
ISBN: 978-9280811391
275 pages
2007