On my reading list
Below are several recent articles and books relevant to multilateralism that I’ve been reading–or will soon: –Krzysztof Pelc has an article out in the latest issue of International Organization examining accession to the World Trade Organization–and trying to understand why potential members often get such different terms. He concludes, in part, that countries with the ...
Below are several recent articles and books relevant to multilateralism that I've been reading--or will soon:
Below are several recent articles and books relevant to multilateralism that I’ve been reading–or will soon:
–Krzysztof Pelc has an article out in the latest issue of International Organization examining accession to the World Trade Organization–and trying to understand why potential members often get such different terms. He concludes, in part, that countries with the most valuable markets get the most stringent liberalization requirements imposed on them.
–The journal Ethics & International Affairs has collected a great series of essays on the Libya intervention and the responsibility to protect, including one by Ian Hurd that I wrote about last week.
–George Washington University scholar Michael Barnett has what looks to be a fascinating new book out on the history of humanitarianism, titled Empire of Humanity.
–Last year, Victor Comras published Flawed Diplomacy, an informed and often scathing examination of the UN’s counterterrorism policies. A former U.S. diplomat, Comras has served as an expert on several Security Council sanctions committees and tells the inside story of what works and, more often, what doesn’t.
–I recently reviewed the historian Mark Mazower’s provocative book on the United Nations, No Enchanted Palace, for the journal Diplomatic History.
David Bosco is a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. He is the author of The Poseidon Project: The Struggle to Govern the World’s Oceans. Twitter: @multilateralist
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