Enhancing global governance: towards a new diplomacy?

Enhancing Global Governance examines the institutional bases and diplomatic practices that underpin global governance. "Order" implies stability in the midst of a constantly changing world. The security managers of international order and stability are usually the most powerful and the most wealthy, and they have the biggest voice even in the institutions of global governance. Yet the impetus and leadership for change sometimes comes from other actors and other sources.
Enhancing Global Governance analyses the means by which global governance has been promoted by innovative diplomatic practices, especially issue-specific coalitions among like-minded countries and civil society organizations. The question of how these alternative leadership forms have been expressed through the United Nations system, together with an evaluation of their impact, is the theme binding together the individual contributions to this collection. The authors describe the accumulating frustrations with the P5 leadership in the UN Security Council as the prelude to discussing two major case studies: the development of the Ottawa Treaty to ban anti personnel landmines and the campaign to establish an international criminal court. The third tier of chapters studies the application of new diplomacy in different domains of international activity such as "codes of conduct" to regulate private and public sector commercial activity, child soldiers, and "conflict diamonds." The book closes with an account of the emerging new security agenda that is broader and more fluid and dynamic than the old order.