Titlebook: Rising Powers and Multilateral Institutions; Dries Lesage,Thijs Graaf Book 2015 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Lim

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The United Nations Security Council: The Challenge of Reformhe only organ of the global community that can adopt legally binding resolutions for the maintenance of international peace and security and, if necessary, authorize the use of force. Created in the aftermath of World War II by its victors, the UNSC’s constellation looks increasingly anachronistic,

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Protecting Power: How Western States Retain Their Dominant Voice in the World Bank’s Governanceing, from West to East.. While applauded by some, the shift is creating deep insecurity in the long-dominant Western states, prompting them to try to protect the power positions they attained as a result of their economic dominance in the decades after the Second World War. And it is also creating a

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Tigers and Dragons at the World Intellectual Property Organizationrts of innovative technology (e.g. Sony, Toyota and Toshiba from Japan; LG, Kia and Samsung from Korea) and creative cultural products (e.g. manga and video games from Japan; pop music and soap operas from Korea). How did these countries, as the rising powers of their day, transform from being “free

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Analytical Framework and Findingsons - the monetary and oil crisis of the early 1970s, for example, spawned the G7 and the International Energy Agency (IEA). Many of these institutions had a truly global span, and even those that were confined to the Western camp often took on global aspirations after the end of the Cold War.

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The IEA, the New Energy Order and the Future of Global Energy Governancestatistics and give policy advice to its member governments. For practical purposes, the IEA was nested within the orbit of the existing Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), based in Paris. It nowadays assembles 29 member states, all drawn from the industrialized democracies of Europe, North America, Asia and the Pacific.