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Rethinking International Order beyond Unilateralism |
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Ishtiaq Ahmad |
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Margallah Papers
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Special Edition (2009), pp 1-21 |
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There is no doubt that global power is diffused today in multiple ways, and it will be more diffused in future, but this does not mean that we have effectively entered a uni-polar era. However, at least the beginning of the end of post-Cold War unilateral period ~ led by the United States is certainly visible with the emergence of new regional powers and influential non-state actors. Given that, the best we can do at this stage is to draw a hypothetical sketch of a workable doctrine of international community in a post-unilateral environment to be fully realized at sometime in future, which is what this paper essentially intends to do. My principal argument is that as power in the international system gets more diffused with the emergence of newer, potentially positivist state and non-state actors and forces, the existing institutions of global governance have to be reformed and consolidated, newer, more representative global governance entities must be created, and traditional, Westerndominated version of multilateralism must be replaced by fairer and more pluralistic form of multilateralism-all of this to accommodate the mutually compatible or competitive aspirations and interests of all the important old and new players and forces at the international stage in political, security, economic and political domains.
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